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A China Story: Growing Up In Mao's Cultural Revolution by Ying Qian takes readers back to the 1960s when Mao, a dictator, ruled China by fear. He had launched many political and cultural movements, the longest, deadliest, and darkest being the Cultural Revolution. Countless people suffered and millions died during that era and the author's father, a nuclear weapons expert specialist, was killed by the Chinese military during that time. The author was just eight years old when the Cultural Revolution began. She speaks about how she received information on how her father was killed 40 years after his death, on her return to Beijing from the United States in 2010. The memoir takes readers on a nostalgic trip with the author as she tried to get details surrounding the death of her father, and how she finds out the truth as to how he stood up against an evil dictatorship.
A China Story is about an honest man's struggle to maintain his honesty, dignity, and integrity. It is also a poignant story of a woman's journey to find out the truth surrounding her father's death and how speaking out against a dictatorship cost him his life. Ying Qian pieces together books, articles, government documents, and verbal recounts of the victims of military brutality and lists the sequence of events that led to her father's death. This is one of the finest memoirs I have read and the author is very honest while sharing her story. It gives a glimpse into the China that existed during the regime of Mao and how he unleashed terror on the people of that time. She speaks of how finding out the facts surrounding her father's death, though not an easy task, took her back in time to the peak of the Cultural Revolution as she watched her father fall.
