Flowing with the Pearl River: Memoir of a Red China Girl by Chan Zhou, Amy
Flowing with the Pearl River: Memoir of a Red China Girl by Chan Zhou, Amy

Flowing with the Pearl River: Memoir of a Red China Girl

Amy Chan Zhou's searing memoir about growing up in rural Communist China features descriptions of pastoral beauty...
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Author: Amy Chan Zhou
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Flowing with the Pearl River: Memoir of a Red China Girl by Chan Zhou, Amy

Flowing with the Pearl River: Memoir of a Red China Girl

$152.76
Flowing with the Pearl River: Memoir of a Red China Girl by Chan Zhou, Amy

Flowing with the Pearl River: Memoir of a Red China Girl

$152.76
Author: Amy Chan Zhou
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

Amy Chan Zhou's searing memoir about growing up in rural Communist China features descriptions of pastoral beauty and tales of the simple joys of raising farm animals or catching fish in a local river. However, her childhood is scarred by the primitive conditions, her family's everyday struggle to obtain food, and the horror of witnessing relatives being tortured on a stage during "public denouncing" meetings.

As the Communists take control of China in 1949, we follow the harrowing experiences of Chan Zhou's great-grandparents, grandparents, father, and mother during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s when landlords, business owners, artists, and scholars were branded as "bad elements" and "class enemies." As a teenager in the 1970s, while selling vegetables on the black market, Chan Zhou is accused of being a "little capitalist trader."

The death of Mao ultimately saves Chan Zhou from being sent to a detention center, and her family's destiny is forever altered by Deng Xiaoping's reform that allows her family to reunite in Hong Kong, and subsequently emigrate to the United States.

A blend of Wild Swans and The Red Scarf Girl, Flowing with the Pearl River is a vividly accurate portrayal of one family's painful experiences during Communism and the Cultural Revolution in China, and their eventual escape to freedom.



Author: Amy Chan Zhou
Publisher: Santa Monica Press
Published: 03/15/2022
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781595801067
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Chan Zhou, Amy: - Amy Chan Zhou was born in 1964 in Guangzhou, China and immigrated to the United States in 1979. She is currently working at the Montgomery County Public School system in Maryland as a substitute teacher and interpreter.
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