Growing Up under a Red Flag - A Memoir of Surviving the Chinese Cultural Revolution

"The memoir of Ying Chang Compestine's childhood growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution"--

About the author

Ying Chang Compestine; illustrated by Xinmei Liu

Summary

A stirring and magnificently illustrated picture-book memoir of the author’s childhood during the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Ying Chang Compestine was a young girl in 1966 when Mao launched his Cultural Revolution to reclaim power and eliminate non-communist values in the country. His army began punishing and arresting people who didn’t agree with him, foreign reading material was banned, and children were all required to dress in uniform and carry the Little Red Book of Mao’s teachings. It was a time of fear, mayhem, and scarcity that lasted until Mao’s death ten years later, when Ying was thirteen. Through those ten harrowing years, Ying’s parents found ways to secretly educate her and allow her dreams of visiting America to stay vibrant. Now she brings her childhood story and China’s history to life in this absorbing and beautiful picture book.

Product details

• Authors: Ying Chang Compestine, Compestine Ying Chang, Xinmei Liu
• Assisted by: Xinmei Liu (Illustration)
• Publisher: Random House N.Y.
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 6 to 9
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.05.2024
• EAN: 9780593533987
• ISBN: 978-0-593-53398-7
• Dimensions: 226 mm x 289 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 471 g
• Illustrations: FULL-COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; Asia, History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage), JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Asia, Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, Children's / Teenage: general non-fiction, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Places / Asia