The Little Red Guard : A Family Memoir (Hardcover)

from pinklady60

A memoir by the author as he grew up in China under the Communist dictatorship of Chairman Mao Zedong and his Cultural Revolution, and the revolutionary period after Mao's death. Huang was a Little Red Guard during this time and was encouraged to rat out anyone he saw disobeying the law. He recou...

from Litfan

I greatly enjoyed this book and read it all in one day. It was quite absorbing, a bit like sitting down with an old friend and hearing a fascinating family tale. The story begins in China, after the Cultural Revolution. Three generations of family are living together: one, Grandma, who lived most...

from TylerHartford

I enjoyed this book - read it in a day. Through personal stories, it gives a face to historical events around the Cultural Revolution and how they impacted a generation. These stories need to be told so that our Western nations can understand the extreme sacrifices ordinary Chinese have faced, wh...

from Jcambridge

What a wonderful memior!! I would encourage anyone with an interest in China and in family memoirs to read it -- While the Chinese family experience may be very different from your own, there are nonetheless many similarities in the relationships within an extended family. The author has a real t...

from Beamis12

Wen is a very likable and easy to relate to narrator. Living with a grandmother, who is from a time when they still bound woman's feet, he and is family try to navigate between the old customs and the new ways after Mao's cultural revolution. Burial is no longer an option, as Mao only endorses cr...