Revolution is not a dinner party : a novel /

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by Compestine, Ying Chang.
[ 02. English Fiction ] Published by : H. Holt, (New York :) Physical details: 248 p. : maps ; 21 cm. Subject(s): Communism --Fiction. | Family life --China --Fiction. | Family --China --Fiction. | Persecution --Fiction. | Persecution --Fiction. | Physicians --Fiction. | China --History --Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 --Fiction. Year : 2007 02. English Fiction Item type : 02. English Fiction

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Maps on endpapers.

Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.

A Junior Library Guild selection