No Tears for Mao (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780897334938)

Niu-Niu (NOO-Noo) was four years old when, amidst the rubble that had been her comfortable "bourgeois" home, she watched the beating of her helpless parents, and saw them, bloody and with shaven heads, taken away for what seemed like forever. That traumatic day marked the end of Niu-Niu's innocent childhood. Two days after she was born, on May 16, 1966, Mao Zedung began his "Great Cultural Revolution, " which caused untold suffering. For the next nine years, Niu-Niu's life became a nightmare in which human kindness and reason all but disappeared, where violence and hunger were the order of the day. This direct eyewitness account of one of the world's most shocking social upheavals is told vividly and compassionately. It is a chronicle readers will not forget.

Author: Niu Niu, Niu-Niu
ISBN-10: 0897334930
ISBN-13: 9780897334938
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1995
Pages: 287
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.21h x 5.16w x 0.78d