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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... recite it, or she would order him to clean the school's restrooms for a week. Every morning when I got near the gate ... recited the paragraph too slowly, that I was trying to cheat. I was excluded from school activities, including my ...
... recite it, or she would order him to clean the school's restrooms for a week. Every morning when I got near the gate ... recited the paragraph too slowly, that I was trying to cheat. I was excluded from school activities, including my ...
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... recitation of quotations. We chanted mindlessly. It would usually last two hours. Bored, I stole a glance at Wild Ginger ... reciting Mao's Three Famous Essays — "Serve the People," "In Memory of Norman Bethune," and "The Foolish Man Who ...
... recitation of quotations. We chanted mindlessly. It would usually last two hours. Bored, I stole a glance at Wild Ginger ... reciting Mao's Three Famous Essays — "Serve the People," "In Memory of Norman Bethune," and "The Foolish Man Who ...
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... reciting. Mrs. Cheng stopped me. Later she explained that she was trying to protect me. Although she didn't spell the words out, I understood the message. She was right. If Hot Pepper had caught me, I would have been expelled from the ...
... reciting. Mrs. Cheng stopped me. Later she explained that she was trying to protect me. Although she didn't spell the words out, I understood the message. She was right. If Hot Pepper had caught me, I would have been expelled from the ...
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... reciting. '"How should we judge whether a youth is a revolutionary? How can we tell? There can only be one criterion, namely whether or not he is willing to integrate himself with the broad masses of workers and peasants and does so in ...
... reciting. '"How should we judge whether a youth is a revolutionary? How can we tell? There can only be one criterion, namely whether or not he is willing to integrate himself with the broad masses of workers and peasants and does so in ...
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... recite three hundred pages. I want to upset my own record." "Ambitious!" "I suppose that's what devotion and loyalty are all about." "Can anyone participate?" Wild Ginger asked. "It's an open contest." s "Wild Ginger has been calling ...
... recite three hundred pages. I want to upset my own record." "Ambitious!" "I suppose that's what devotion and loyalty are all about." "Can anyone participate?" Wild Ginger asked. "It's an open contest." s "Wild Ginger has been calling ...
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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