Red Azalea (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Anchee Min
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1957-1976
- Setting: China
- Principal Characters: Anchee Min, Yan Sheng Yan, The Supervisor
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Communism or communists, Prisoners, Revolutionaries, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Filmmaking or filmmakers, China or Chinese people
- Locales: China
Anchee Min’s Red Azalea, like many autobiographical narratives, is her coming-of-age story. She writes of her struggles with issues of identity and sexuality within the repressive environment of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). With this focus she differs from other Chinese men and women writing about their lives in the same period in two ways: in the intensely personal journey she relates and in the simple but powerful prose she writes.
Others recounting their lives during the Cultural Revolution focus primarily on the historical and political forces...
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