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In 1966 Shanghai, a 12-year-old girl who was a “princess” from an affluent family saw her life suddenly changed forever by the turbulent revolutions. On one summer night, her family got raided. Her father became a “bloodsucker” overnight and she forever lost her happy childhood and tried to survive.
This memoir honestly draws a raw but real life picture of a girl in Shanghai from 1954-1987 when China was closed to the rest of the world. The book vividly shows the traditional society before the great Reform in China in the 1980s, as well as the life of different classes of the common people who all struggled through the confusion of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the strange years following.
These true life experiences have seldom been retold by an actual survivor. Hope you will enjoy the compelling stories and find this important period of Chinese history insightful.
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