Revolution is not a dinner party : a novel / Ying Chang Compestine

Compestine, Ying Chang
Revolution is not a dinner party : a novel / Ying Chang Compestine [A]. -- New York : H. Holt, 2007

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Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.
ISBN: 9780312581497

1. CHINESE LITERATURE; 2. PERSECUTION -- JUVENILE FICTION; 3. FAMILIES -- JUVENILE FICTION -- CHINA; 4. PHYSICIANS -- JUVENILE FICTION; 5. COMMUNISM -- JUVENILE FICTION; 6. CHINA -- JUVENILE FICTION -- HISTORY -- CULTURAL REVOLUTION, 1966-1976; 7. JUVENILE LITERATURE; 8. HISTORICAL NOVELS

(1) Inv.: S15887 S.T.: J HISTORICAL NOVELS COM