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Title: The Execution of Mayor Yin, and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution by Jo-Hsi. Ch'En, Chen Jo-Hsi, Chen Jo-Hsi, Nancy Ing ISBN: 0-253-20231-0 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: August, 1979 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Grim portrait of China during the Cultural Revolution.
Comment: The author gives a poignant picture of the distressing everyday life in Mao's China under the Cultural Revolution.
There is a power struggle at the top of the CP. The Red Guards constitute their own rule. The political decisions are unpredictable (sometimes for then against the farmers or the intellectuals).
The result is that the population doesn't know anymore what to do and where they are (suicides or attempts). They are terrorized by suspicion, house searches, forced migrations and ... are terrorizing each other.
In the story 'Chin-Chin's Birthday' defy two children each other to insult chairman Mao. When their parents learn that other adults heard it, they are panic-stricken.
In 'The Guard' is theft a norm for the Red Guards.
In 'The Execution of Mayor Yin' is Yin a victim of his non proletarian origin. Although totally innocent, he is convicted and executed by the Red Guards.
Masterfully written stories which create a grim and depressing atmosphere. Not to be missed.
I recommend also the poignant book by Nien Cheng 'Life and Death in Shangai'.
Rating: 5
Summary: Well written fictional account of the Cultural Revolution
Comment: Very few works of fiction have been written regarding the Cultural Revolution in China, especially by people, like Chen Jo-Hsi, who lived through it. There are some very good memoirs chronicling the events, but Chen Jo-Hsi's moving work of fiction gives the reader an excellent insight into one of the worst instances of censorship of the arts in the world's history. In addition, it brings to light in a very poignant way, how dichotmous and arbirtary the policies and reform movements during this period actually were. The book contains eight short stories that takes the reader from Nanking to the countryside and demonstrates the affects of the Cultural Revolution on different types of individuals from the professor to the laborer, sometimes with heart-breaking results.
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Title: The Stones Cry Out: A Cambodian Childhood, 1975-1980 (Vietnam War Era Classics Series) by Molyda Szymusiak, Linda Coverdale, Jane Hamilton-Merritt, Molyda Szymusiak ISBN: 025321291X Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.58 |
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Title: Chinese Village, Socialist State by Edward Friedman, Mark Selden, Kay Ann Johnson, Paul G. Pickowicz ISBN: 0300054289 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 1993 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch ISBN: 0312243359 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq, Updated Edition by Kanan Makiya ISBN: 0520214390 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Private Life of Chairman Mao by LI ZHI-SUI ISBN: 0679764437 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 02 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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