Students turned Red Guards stage a rally in Beijing in September 1966. Photo: AFP
Review |
Horror, madness, escape: a Chinese-Australian’s memoir of living through Mao’s great famine and Red Guard terror
- Even as a kindergartener, Kwong could feel his family being shunned for the fact that they were well-educated teachers and therefore considered ‘bourgeois’
- His book about surviving childhood horrors and achieving the immigrant dream bears comparison with Frank McCourt’s visceral memoir Angela’s Ashes
Topic |
Chinese history
Students turned Red Guards stage a rally in Beijing in September 1966. Photo: AFP