Wild Ginger: A NovelHMH, 2004. 1. 1. - 240페이지 Two girls come of age during the horrors of China’s Cultural Revolution in this novel by the national bestselling author of Empress Orchid. The young and beautiful Wild Ginger is only in elementary school, but has already survived hell through her sheer iron will. Singled out by the Red Guards for her “foreign-colored eyes,” she has seen her deceased father branded a traitor and her mother commit suicide under the oppressive weight of persecution. But the young Wild Ginger will not allow herself to be taken down. Nor will she turn her back on other martyrs—like sweet Maple, daughter of a teacher of Chinese history, survivor of a labor camp, and victim of daily brutal beatings by a gang girl called Hot Pepper. While the two become fast friends over their shared ostracism, it is Wild Ginger who will take her Maoist principles to the extreme, becoming no less than a national model for the revolutionary Communist doctrine. But when both self-possessed young girls begin to feel a prohibited romantic love for the same boy, all three of them will face mortal danger. In this novel, the author of Pearl of China and the New York Times Notable Book Red Azalea “continues her extraordinarily acute inquiry into the wounded psyches of martyrs…and survivors of China's horrific Cultural Revolution… As in all her unsparing, compelling, and transcendent books, Min discerns both the vulnerability and strength of individuals and, more disturbingly, unveils the eroticism of pain. Given our own times, Min's taut and compassionate tale of oppressed teenagers kept in ignorance of the wider world, children brainwashed into performing acts of violence and self-destruction, is especially urgent.”—Booklist |
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... hear me now! I am his loyalist too! I have never misspelled one word of his teachings. My test scores are all excellent. You, Hot Pepper, your treatment is unfair and cruel. If Chairman Mao learns what's happening to me he will be upset ...
... hear me now! I am his loyalist too! I have never misspelled one word of his teachings. My test scores are all excellent. You, Hot Pepper, your treatment is unfair and cruel. If Chairman Mao learns what's happening to me he will be upset ...
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... hear Wild Ginger's name and hear her story. The late summer night in Shanghai was humid. I could hear my stomach rumble. We were too poor to afford full meals. My family slept on the floor on a bamboo mat. My three sisters and three ...
... hear Wild Ginger's name and hear her story. The late summer night in Shanghai was humid. I could hear my stomach rumble. We were too poor to afford full meals. My family slept on the floor on a bamboo mat. My three sisters and three ...
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... hear it." "How can you have the heart to do this?" "You are insulting me, Mother." "For God's sake!" "The hell with God the ghost-head!" "You'll be punished for scorning the Lord." "To be born of such parents is to be punished. I have ...
... hear it." "How can you have the heart to do this?" "You are insulting me, Mother." "For God's sake!" "The hell with God the ghost-head!" "You'll be punished for scorning the Lord." "To be born of such parents is to be punished. I have ...
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... hear that. If there is anything I can do to help, please... I can always fetch you the bean milk, for example." Wild Ginger and Evergreen were staring at each other. "Oh, let me introduce you two. This is Wild Ginger, my classmate, my ...
... hear that. If there is anything I can do to help, please... I can always fetch you the bean milk, for example." Wild Ginger and Evergreen were staring at each other. "Oh, let me introduce you two. This is Wild Ginger, my classmate, my ...
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... hear your father sing?" "I don't remember. My mother says I did. My mother sang me his songs. She wants me to remember him. But who wants to remember a reactionary?" "What about your voice?" "I sing all right... Well, I love to sing, in ...
... hear your father sing?" "I don't remember. My mother says I did. My mother sang me his songs. She wants me to remember him. But who wants to remember a reactionary?" "What about your voice?" "I sing all right... Well, I love to sing, in ...
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abacus ANCHEE MIN anti-Maoist arms asked basket Becoming Madame Mao began big-character poster breath brother cents Chairman Mao teaches Cheng China Chinese closet Communist comrade crowd Cultural Revolution dance door Evergreen eyes face father feel felt fish hair hands head Hot Pep Hot Pepper Hua Mulan knees knew learning live looked loudspeaker Madame Mao Manchu Mao book Mao jacket Mao quotations Mao study Mao's Maoist Maple mind morning mother mouth moved neighborhood never night party secretary People's Square pulled pushed rally reactionary reciting Red Guards revolutionary sang Shanghai shouted sing smell smile snails songs sound squid stared stood stopped Suddenly sure talk taotai tears tell thought told took tried truth trying turned voice waiting walked wall wanted What's Wild Gin Wild Ginger woman Wuhu yecai yelled