A first-hand account of what life was like in the period before the revolution and in Mao's reign, China was a vast human drama, as real people confronted, not political abstractions, but concrete, real challenges, often involving life and death, and she was a witness to the choices, the ways people behaved, in that situation. The Secret Listener gives a unique perspective on the era. Yuan-tsung Chen, who is now 90, and lived through most of it offers a vantage point that provides us with a new, wider perspective on the Maoist regime, one of the most radical political experiments in modern history and a force that genuinely changed the world.…mehr
A first-hand account of what life was like in the period before the revolution and in Mao's reign, China was a vast human drama, as real people confronted, not political abstractions, but concrete, real challenges, often involving life and death, and she was a witness to the choices, the ways people behaved, in that situation. The Secret Listener gives a unique perspective on the era. Yuan-tsung Chen, who is now 90, and lived through most of it offers a vantage point that provides us with a new, wider perspective on the Maoist regime, one of the most radical political experiments in modern history and a force that genuinely changed the world.
Yuan-tsung Chen is a former official under Mao in the 1950s. She is also the author of the novel The Dragon's Village and a winning survivor from Maoism.
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Opening Shot The First Part: Before the Year of 1949 Chapter 1 : My Family and Myself Chapter 2 : My First Beau Chapter 3 : The Broadening of My Horizon Chapter 4 : Stumbling into a Larger World The Second Part: After the Year of 1949 Chapter 5 : In Mao's Beijing Chapter 6 : Outside the Great Wall, By the Blue Danube Chapter 7 : I Felt It Was Me on Trial Chapter 8 : A Purge in Reverse Chapter 9 : A Reverse of the Reverse: The Anti-Rightists Purge The Third Part: The Great Leap Forward Chapter 10: A Leap from the Magical Circle into Mao's Great Famine Chapter 11: A VIP Pig Chapter 12: From Black Market to Fake Bumper Harvest Chapter 13: Between the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution The Fourth Part: The Cultural Revolution Chapter 14: The Mob Rule Chapter 15: The Mob Rule Continued Chapter 16: Intrigues in a Slum House Chapter 17: Forced into Exile and Fought back Epilogue
Opening Shot The First Part: Before the Year of 1949 Chapter 1 : My Family and Myself Chapter 2 : My First Beau Chapter 3 : The Broadening of My Horizon Chapter 4 : Stumbling into a Larger World The Second Part: After the Year of 1949 Chapter 5 : In Mao's Beijing Chapter 6 : Outside the Great Wall, By the Blue Danube Chapter 7 : I Felt It Was Me on Trial Chapter 8 : A Purge in Reverse Chapter 9 : A Reverse of the Reverse: The Anti-Rightists Purge The Third Part: The Great Leap Forward Chapter 10: A Leap from the Magical Circle into Mao's Great Famine Chapter 11: A VIP Pig Chapter 12: From Black Market to Fake Bumper Harvest Chapter 13: Between the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution The Fourth Part: The Cultural Revolution Chapter 14: The Mob Rule Chapter 15: The Mob Rule Continued Chapter 16: Intrigues in a Slum House Chapter 17: Forced into Exile and Fought back Epilogue
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