Becoming Madame Mao (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Anchee Min
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1919-1991
- Setting: Shan-dong Province, Shanghai, Yenan Province, and Beijing, China
- Principal Characters: Jiang Ching, Yu Qiwei, Tang Nah, Mao Tse-tung
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, Wives, Communism or communists, Revolutionaries, Twentieth century, 1940’s, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, 1980’s, Politicians, 1990’s, China or Chinese people
- Locales: China, Beijing, China, Shanghai, China
Author and artist Anchee Min grew up in China during the fierce and tumultuous reign of Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Min’s two earlier books, Red Azalea (1994) and Katherine (1995), examine Chinese life during and after the chaotic Cultural Revolution, which was in part engineered by Mao’s wife Jiang Ching. A teenager during the Cultural Revolution, Min served as a Red Guard and was then exiled to a harsh life working among peasants in rural China. Min admired Jiang Ching; Mao’s wife seemed a great revolutionary heroine as she exhorted the teenage Red...
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