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• catalog abstract "Earlier this century the Chinese writer Lu Xun said that some of our ancestors must have bravely attempted to eat crabs so that we would learn they were edible. Trials with spiders were not so enjoyable. Our ancestors suffered their bitter taste and spared us their poison. Rae Yang, a daughter of privilege, became a spider eater at age fifteen, when she enthusiastically joined the Red Guards in Beijing. By seventeen, she volunteered to work on a pig farm and thus began to live at the bottom of Chinese society. With stunning honesty and a lively, sly humor, the complex and likable Yang incorporates the legends, folklore, and local customs of China to evoke the political and moral crises that the revolution brought upon her over three decades, from 1950 to 1980. Unique to memoirists of this genre, Yang expresses often-overlooked psychological nuances and, with admirable candor, charts her own path as both victim and victimizer. Through this gifted author's compelling meditation, readers will, with Yang, grapple with the human scale of national conflicts - and the painful lessons learned by spider eaters.".
• catalog contributor b10194383.
• catalog coverage "Beijing (China) Biography.".
• catalog coverage "China History Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 Personal narratives.".
• catalog created "c1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "c1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
• catalog description "A strange gift from the pig farm -- Old monkey monster -- Nainai's story turned into a nightmare -- Nainai failed her ancestors -- Why did Father join the revolution? -- Second uncle was a paper tiger -- The Chinese CIA -- When famine hit -- A vicious girl -- Aunty's name was Chastity -- Beijing 101 Middle School -- The hero of my dreams -- At the center of the storm -- Red guards had no sex -- Semi-transparent nights -- "The hero, once departed, will never come back" -- In a village, think, feel and be a peasant -- "The tree may wish to stand still, but the wind will not subside" -- Death of a hero: Nainai's last story -- Remorse -- Friends and others -- My first love, a big mistake? -- What have I lost? What have I gained?".
• catalog description "Earlier this century the Chinese writer Lu Xun said that some of our ancestors must have bravely attempted to eat crabs so that we would learn they were edible. Trials with spiders were not so enjoyable. Our ancestors suffered their bitter taste and spared us their poison. Rae Yang, a daughter of privilege, became a spider eater at age fifteen, when she enthusiastically joined the Red Guards in Beijing. By seventeen, she volunteered to work on a pig farm and thus began to live at the bottom of Chinese society. With stunning honesty and a lively, sly humor, the complex and likable Yang incorporates the legends, folklore, and local customs of China to evoke the political and moral crises that the revolution brought upon her over three decades, from 1950 to 1980. Unique to memoirists of this genre, Yang expresses often-overlooked psychological nuances and, with admirable candor, charts her own path as both victim and victimizer.".
• catalog description "Through this gifted author's compelling meditation, readers will, with Yang, grapple with the human scale of national conflicts - and the painful lessons learned by spider eaters.".
• catalog extent "xi, 285 p., [10] p. of plates :".
• catalog identifier "0520204808 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "c1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
• catalog spatial "Beijing (China) Biography.".
• catalog spatial "China History Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 Personal narratives.".
• catalog subject "951.05/092 B 20".
• catalog subject "DS778.7 .Y42 1997".
• catalog subject "Yang family.".
• catalog subject "Yang, Rae, 1950-".
• catalog tableOfContents "A strange gift from the pig farm -- Old monkey monster -- Nainai's story turned into a nightmare -- Nainai failed her ancestors -- Why did Father join the revolution? -- Second uncle was a paper tiger -- The Chinese CIA -- When famine hit -- A vicious girl -- Aunty's name was Chastity -- Beijing 101 Middle School -- The hero of my dreams -- At the center of the storm -- Red guards had no sex -- Semi-transparent nights -- "The hero, once departed, will never come back" -- In a village, think, feel and be a peasant -- "The tree may wish to stand still, but the wind will not subside" -- Death of a hero: Nainai's last story -- Remorse -- Friends and others -- My first love, a big mistake? -- What have I lost? What have I gained?".
• catalog title "Spider eaters : a memoir / Rae Yang.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "Personal narratives. fast".
• catalog type "text".