Like nearly all memoirs of the era, she becomes a "sent down youth" when she travels to the country in order to live as a peasant on a farm organized as a military unit. She is a model student who faces typical problems faced in other memoirs: studying, making it in party politics, carrying the burden of two working parents, taking care of her siblings, and so forth. She is a city youth who is heavily involved in the Communist Youth League and Red Guard at her school. The first part of the book begins like many other memoirs of the Cultural Revolution. The book is well-written and moves very quickly. What it adds to the literature is a discussion, though subtle and obscured with ambiguity, is a discussion of sexuality and a look at someone who achieves two positions of power, one leading to a comparatively privileged life. A Different Perspective of the Cultural RevolutionĪnchee Min's "Red Azalea" offers a different perspective on the Cultural Revolution than other memoirs.
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