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A Comrade Lost and Found: A Beijing Memoir Paperback - 2010
by Jan Wong
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.
Summary
In the early 1970s, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, Jan Wong traveled from Canada to become one of only two Westerners permitted to study at Beijing University. One day a fellow student, Yin Luoyi, asked for help getting to the United States. Wong, then a starry-eyed Maoist from Montreal, immediately reported her to the authorities, and shortly thereafter Yin disappeared. Thirty-three years later, hoping to make amends, Wong revisits the Chinese capital to search for the person who has haunted her conscience. At the very least, she wants to discover whether Yin survived. But Wong finds the new Beijing bewildering. Phone numbers, addresses, and even names change with startling frequency. In a society determined to bury the past, Yin Luoyi will be hard to find.
As she traces her way from one former comrade to the next, Wong unearths not only the fate of the woman she betrayed but a web that mirrors the strange and dramatic journey of contemporary China and rekindles all of her love forand disillusionment withher ancestral land.
From the jacket flap
In the early 1970s, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, JanWong traveled from Canada to become one of only two Westerners permitted to study at Beijing University.One day a fellow student, Yin Luoyi, asked for help getting to the United States.Wong, then a starry-eyed Maoist, immediately reported her to the authorities, and shortly thereafter Yin disappeared. Thirty-three years later, hoping to make amends, Wong revisits the Chinese capital, with her husband and teenage sons in tow, to search for the person who has haunted her conscience. At the very least, she wants to discover whether Yin survived. But Wong finds the city bewildering - ancient landmarks have made way for luxury condominiums, state-owned factories for luxury boutiques. In the new Beijing, phone numbers, addresses, and even names change with startling frequency. In a society determined to bury the past, Yin Luoyi will be hard to find.As Wong traces her way from one former comrade to the next, she uncovers not only the fate of the woman she betrayed but a web of fates that mirrors the strange and dramatic journey of contemporary China and rekindles all of her love for and disillusionment with her ancestral land."
Details
- Title A Comrade Lost and Found: A Beijing Memoir
- Author Jan Wong
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books
- Date 2010-02-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780547247892 / 0547247893
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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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
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