Revolution is not a dinner party

Ying Chang Compestine First published 2007

About this book

Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.

Subjects

  • children's fiction
  • china, fiction
  • communism
  • communism, fiction
  • cultural revolution (china : 1966-1976) fast (ocolc)fst01352662
  • families
  • family
  • family life
  • family life, fiction
  • fiction
  • history
  • juvenile fiction
  • large type books
  • persecution
  • physicians
  • physicians, fiction
  • values, fiction