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Sparrows, Bedbugs, and Body Shadows : A Memoir / Sheldon Lou.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies ; 17Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824829032
  • 9780824873974
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951.05/092 22
LOC classification:
  • DS778.L624 A3 2005
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. Donkey Meat -- 2. Turtle in Steamer -- 3. Sparrows -- 4. Body Shadows -- 5. Fried Steel -- 6. Bedbugs -- 7. Grain Amplifier -- 8. Old Elm -- 9. Straw Hat -- 10. Wedding -- 11. Verdant City -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author
Summary: Growing up in revolutionary China, Sheldon (Xicheng) Lou was among the millions forced to adopt the goals of Mao's new society. His captivating memoir, written against the backdrop of the early decades of the People's Republic, offers a rare and personal look at China's dream of a Communist paradise-from Mao's preposterous campaign to rid the country of sparrows to the communes and backyard steel-making of the Great Leap Forward to the madness of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780824873974

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. Donkey Meat -- 2. Turtle in Steamer -- 3. Sparrows -- 4. Body Shadows -- 5. Fried Steel -- 6. Bedbugs -- 7. Grain Amplifier -- 8. Old Elm -- 9. Straw Hat -- 10. Wedding -- 11. Verdant City -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author

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Growing up in revolutionary China, Sheldon (Xicheng) Lou was among the millions forced to adopt the goals of Mao's new society. His captivating memoir, written against the backdrop of the early decades of the People's Republic, offers a rare and personal look at China's dream of a Communist paradise-from Mao's preposterous campaign to rid the country of sparrows to the communes and backyard steel-making of the Great Leap Forward to the madness of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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