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Chen, Yuan-tsung, 1932-
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Chen, Yuan-tsung, 1932-
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976.
Chou, En-lai, 1898-1976.
Women -- China
Communism -- China.
China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Personal narratives.
China -- Politics and government -- 1949-1976.
China -- Social conditions -- 1949-1976.
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Chen, Yuan-tsung, 1932-
Chen, Yuan-tsung, 1932-
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976.
Chou, En-lai, 1898-1976.
Women -- China
Communism -- China.
China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Personal narratives.
China -- Politics and government -- 1949-1976.
China -- Social conditions -- 1949-1976.
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The
secret
listener
: an
ingenue
in
Mao
's
court
/ Yuan-tsung Chen.
by
Chen, Yuan-tsung, 1932-
Oxford University Press, c2022.
Call #:
951.056092 C518s
Subjects
Chen, Yuan-tsung, 1932-
Mao
, Zedong, 1893-1976.
Chou, En-lai, 1898-1976.
Women -- China
Communism -- China.
China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Personal narratives.
China -- Politics and government -- 1949-1976.
China -- Social conditions -- 1949-1976.
ISBN:
9780197573341 (hc.)
Description:
[xi], 277 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
"The history of China in the twentieth century is comprised of a long series of shocks: the 1911 revolution, the civil war between the communists and the nationalists, the Japanese invasion, the revolution, the various catastrophic campaigns initiated by chairman
Mao
between 1949 and 1976, its great opening to the world under Deng, and the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Yuan-tsung Chen, who is now 90, lived through most of it, and at certain points in close proximity to the seat of communist power. Born in Shanghai in 1929, she came to know Zhou En-Lai - second only to
Mao
in importance - as a young woman while living in Chungking, where Chiang Kai-Shek's government had relocated to, during the war against Japan. That connection to Zhou helped her advance after the communists took power, and she obtained a job in one of the culture ministries after the revolution. While there, she frequently engaged with the upper echelon of the party and was a first-hand witness to some of the purges that the regime regularly initiated. Eventually, the commissar she worked under was denounced in 1956, and she barely escaped being purged herself for exhibiting "bourgeois tendencies." Sent to the countryside to further the revolution during the Great Leap Forward of the late 1950s, she witnessed the mass starvation that ensued. Later, during Cultural Revolution, she and her husband were purged and sent to live in a rough, poor area -- a common fate for many intellectuals. She finally escaped to Hong Kong in 1971. A first-hand account of what life was like in the period before the revolution and in
Mao
's China, 'The
Secret
Listener
' gives a unique perspective on the era, and Chen'
s
vantage point provides us with a new perspective on the Maoist regime -- one of the most radical political experiments in modern history and a force that genuinely changed the world." -- Book jacket.
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Memoirs.
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