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- catalog abstract ""Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer - and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University - her education included wielding a pneumatic drill at the Number One Machine Tool Factory. In the name of the Revolution, she renounced rock and roll, hauled pig manure in the paddy fields, and turned in a fellow student who sought her help in getting to the United States. She also met and married the only American draft dodger from the Vietnam War to seek asylum in China." "Red China Blues begins as Wong's startling - and ironic - memoir of her rocky six-year romance with Maoism that began to sour as she became aware of the harsh realities of Chinese communism and led to her eventual repatriation to the West. Returning to China in the late eighties as a journalist, she covered both the brutal Tiananmen Square crackdown and the tumultuous era of capitalist reforms under Deng Xiaoping. In a wry, absorbing, and often surreal narrative, she relates the horrors that led to her disillusionment with the "worker's paradise." And through the stories of the people - an unhappy young woman who was sold into marriage, China's most famous dissident, a doctor who lengthens penises - Wong creates an extraordinary portrait of the world's most populous nation."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b9317500.
- catalog coverage "China Politics and government 1949-".
- catalog coverage "China Politics and government 1949-1976.".
- catalog coverage "China Politics and government 1976-2002.".
- catalog coverage "China Social conditions 1949-".
- catalog coverage "China Social conditions 1949-1976.".
- catalog coverage "China Social conditions 1976-2000.".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description ""Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer - and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University - her education included wielding a pneumatic drill at the Number One Machine Tool Factory. In the name of the Revolution, she renounced rock and roll, hauled pig manure in the paddy fields, and turned in a fellow student who sought her help in getting to the United States. She also met and married the only American draft dodger from the Vietnam War to seek asylum in China." "Red China Blues begins as Wong's startling - and ironic - memoir of her rocky six-year romance with Maoism that began to sour as she became aware of the harsh realities of Chinese communism and led to her eventual repatriation to the West. Returning to China in the late eighties as a journalist, she covered both the brutal Tiananmen Square crackdown and the tumultuous era of capitalist reforms under Deng Xiaoping. In a wry, absorbing, and often surreal narrative, she relates the horrors that led to her disillusionment with the "worker's paradise." And through the stories of the people - an unhappy young woman who was sold into marriage, China's most famous dissident, a doctor who lengthens penises - Wong creates an extraordinary portrait of the world's most populous nation."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "x, 405 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Red China blues.".
- catalog identifier "0385254903".
- catalog identifier "0385476795 (U.S.)".
- catalog identifier "086824628X (Australia)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Red China blues.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Toronto ; New York : Doubleday/Anchor Books,".
- catalog relation "Red China blues.".
- catalog spatial "China Politics and government 1949-".
- catalog spatial "China Politics and government 1949-1976.".
- catalog spatial "China Politics and government 1976-2002.".
- catalog spatial "China Social conditions 1949-".
- catalog spatial "China Social conditions 1949-1976.".
- catalog spatial "China Social conditions 1976-2000.".
- catalog subject "951.05 20".
- catalog subject "DS777.75 .W65 1996".
- catalog subject "Wong, Jan.".
- catalog title "Red China blues : my long march from mao to now / Jan Wong.".
- catalog type "text".