Blood Red Sunset:a Memoir Of The Chinese Cultural Revolution

Blood Red Sunset:a Memoir Of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

[Paperback - 1996]

howard goldblatt

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Category: History

Sub-category: Chinese & Far Eastern History

Additional Category: Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography - Others

Publisher: Penguin Books | ISBN: 9780140159424 | Pages: 384

Shipping Weight: .283 | Dimensions: 5 x .8 x 7.6 inches

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A searing first hand account of China's Cultural Revolution that joins the ranks of great memoirs such as Life and Death in Shanghai, Wild Swans and A Chinese Odyssey

First banned in its native land, this earthy, unflinching memoir has become one of the biggest bestsellers in the history of China.

In 1968, a fervent young Red Guard joined the army of hotheaded adolescents who trekked to Inner Mongolia to spread the Cultural Revolution. After gaining a reputation as a brutal abuser of the local herd owners and nomads, Ma Bo casually criticized a Party Leader. Denounced as an “active counterrevolutionary” and betrayed by his friends, the idealistic youth was brutally beaten and imprisoned.

Charged with passion, never doctrinaire, Blood Red Sunset is a startlingly vivid and personal narrative that opens a window on the psyche of totalitarian excess that no other work of history can provide. This is a tale of ideology and disillusionment, a powerful work of political and literary importance.

“A deceptively straightforward story carried forward by deep currents of insight.”—The Washington Post

“A genuine, no-holds-barred, unadorned piece of writing…echoing the realities of contemporary China.”—Liu Binyan, The New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Ma Bo (born August 22, 1947) is a Chinese non-fiction writer who currently resides in Beijing, China. After graduating from Beijing University with a degree in journalism, he wrote and published the bookBlood Red Sunsetin 1988 which sold over 400,000 copies in China.Subsequently as a result of his participation in Tiananmen Square, he fled the country, first to France, and then ultimately to the US, where he settled as a resident scholar in Brown University's Literary Arts program.In 1995, the English translation ofBlood Red Sunset(Penguin, 1995) was published with Howard Goldblatt as translator. Also in 1995, Ma Bo's mother, Yang Mo, a prominent writer herself, was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Consequently, upon special permission from the Chinese government, Ma Bo returned to China to visit his mother in the hospital. He has remained in China since then.(from Wikipedia)

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