Red China Blues is written by Jan Wong a Canadian writer. During the peak of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution in China, Ms. Wong left Canada as a young woman, in pursuit of what she believed to be a worthy revolution.
Ms. Wong writes about her journey through an idealistic fog, told in a candid and directly honest account, of her years as a Maoist revolutionary in China.
She recounts things that she believed, spoke and did. It is incredibly hard to accept her past and although certainly unapologetic in nature, the biography resonates a cleansing and self accepting woman.
Andy Warhol's Mao
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Thanks to The Zhush for reminding me how much I love this Warhol!
I'm going to reserve this at the library. Bob and I spent an afternoon at Mao's home which is still revered as a shrine by many Chinese. I hope you are having a great day. Blessings...Mary
ReplyDeleteSounds good! I read a good one about Mao's wife.. long time ago, it was great, of course can't remember the name of it.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds very interesting. I'm going to read it. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteSounds to be a very interesting book indeed. I love biograhies, memoirs, fascinating.
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hi ren! thanks for visiting. i can´t get enough of your photography. you really know how to capture the mood. hugs from spain!
ReplyDeletejane
i love warhol too! he is so amazing:)
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Sounds interesting !!! Thanks for this discovery !
ReplyDeleteWe are clearly both in a Warhol mood/moment. This book sounds very compelling...will have to check it out.
ReplyDeletehow fascinating! thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeletexo Alison
I like it
ReplyDeleteMs. Wong sounds like a very interesting character in life. It would be interesting to read from her perspective.
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This book sounds really interesting! I have learned so much about Mao from school and from my papa {his kind really into china history}. I would love to check this out and share it with my papa as well! Thanks so much for sharing and have a lovely merry happy day! Love to you!
ReplyDeleteShall get more of Mao when I visit Beijing in late August.
ReplyDeleteThis man is a legend!
ReplyDeleteI will reply in your Chinese post about the Japanese cake : it is made with red beans paste and it is delicious !!
ReplyDeleteI've just read a biography of Mao - as you have already find out in my blog - and it is really impresive to see how so many of us were simpathetic the him, only to discover that it was mainly propaganda and that the man was one of the most shameless dictators ever.
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