Gang of One - Memoirs of a Red Guard

Informationen zum Autor Hailing from the People's Republic of China, Fan Shen is a professor at Rochester Community and Technical College in Minnesota. He has published three translated books and numerous articles in both Chinese and English. Klappentext The sometimes harrowing, often humorous, riveting story of an American immigrant's escape from China to life in the U. S. Zusammenfassung In 1966! twelve-year-old Fan Shen! a newly minted Red Guard! plunged happily into China's Cultural Revolution. A story of coming of age in the midst of monumental historical upheaval! this work is a memoir of a young man's harrowing experience during a time of terror. It recounts how Shen escaped! again and again! from his appointed fate.

Product details

• Authors: Fan Shen
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2006
• EAN: 9780803293366
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-9336-6
• No. of pages: 298
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: American Lives (University of; American Lives; American Lives (University of
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography