A Comrade Lost and Found: A Beijing Memoir - Softcover

Wong, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0547247893 ISBN 13: 9780547247892

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2010

Synopsis

A Comrade Lost and Found Hoping to make amends, Wong returns to Beijing to find the classmate she betrayed during the Cultural Revolution. As she traces her way from one former comrade to the next, Wong unearths not only the fate of the woman she is searching for but a web of fates that mirrors the dramatic journey of contemporary China. Full description

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Review:

PRAISE FOR RED CHINA BLUES

"This deft intertwining of personal and historical perspectives makes for a riveting, human-scaled look at a nation so ambiguous to the West. A."--Entertainment Weekly

From the Back Cover:

Praise for A Comrade Lost and Found"Essential and compulsively readable. Wong asks the Cultural Revolution's underlying human question--how could so many betray others, and live with it now?--and answers it with a great story: her own." Nicole Mones, author of The Last Chinese Chef

"Jan Wong is the best tour guide a visitor to Beijing could have. She is as generous as she is perceptive, and her sense of humor is so wicked that no absurdity in the modern Chinese capital escapes her. The drama of the search for her lost comrade gives the book the fast pace of a thriller and the razor blade focus of a heartfelt memoir. Jan Wong at her best."--Oliver August, author of Inside the Red Mansion On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man

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About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0547247893
• ISBN 13: 9780547247892
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336