The Little Red Guard: A Family Memoir
By Wenguang Huang.
Description
A Washington Post Best of 2012 pick“Delightful . . . a book that brings a corner of modern China alive.”—The Wall Street JournalWhen Wenguang Huang was nine years old, his grandmother became obsessed with her own death. Fearing cremation, she extracted from her family the promise to bury her after she died. This was in Xian, a city in central China, in the 1970s, when a national ban on all traditional Chinese practices, including burials, was strictly enforced. But Huang’s grandmother was persistent, and two years later, his father built her a coffin. ...
ISBN(s)
1594486557, 9781594486555
