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1 online resource (314 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the Fifteenth Anniversary Edition; Author's Note; 1 A Strange Gift from the Pig Farm; 2 Old Monkey Monster; 3 Nainai's Story Turned into a Nightmare; 4 Nainai Failed Her Ancestors; 5 Why Did Father Join the Revolution?; 6 Second Uncle Was a Paper Tiger; 7 The Chinese CIA; 8 When Famine Hit; 9 A Vicious Girl; 10 Aunty's Name Was Chastity; 11 Beijing 101 Middle School; 12 The Hero in My Dreams; 13 At the Center of the Storm; 14 Red Guards Had No Sex; 15 Semi-transparent Nights; 16 ""The Hero, Once Departed, Will Never Come Back"" |
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17 In a Village, Think, Feel, and Be a Peasant18 ""The Tree May Wish to Stand Still, but the Wind Will Not Subside""; 19 Death of a Hero: Nainai's Last Story; 20 Remorse; 21 Friends and Others; 22 My First Love, a Big Mistake?; 23 What Have I Lost? What Have I Gained?; 24 Epilogue. |
| Summary |
Spider Eaters is at once a moving personal story, a fascinating family history, and a unique chronicle of political upheaval told by a Chinese woman who came of age during the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution. With stunning honesty and a lively, sly humor, Rae Yang records her life from her early years as the daughter of Chinese diplomats in Switzerland, to her girlhood at an elite middle school in Beijing, to her adolescent experience as a Red Guard and later as a laborer on a pig farm in the remote northern wilderness. She tells of her eventual disillusionment with the Maois. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Yang family.
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Yang family. |
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Yang, Rae, 1950-
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Yang, Rae, 1950- |
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Cultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976) |
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China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Personal narratives.
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Beijing (China) -- Biography.
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1966-1976 |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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History.
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Personal narratives.
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Personal narratives.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Yang, Rae. Spider Eaters : A Memoir. Berkerley : University of California Press, ©2013 9780520276024 |
| ISBN |
9780520955363 (electronic book) |
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0520955366 (electronic book) |
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1299199895 (e-book) |
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9781299199897 (e-book) |
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9780520276024 |
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0520276027 (Trade Paper) |
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