China's Cultural Revolution and its aftermath in fiction and memoir
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The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution
by:
Mobo C.F. Gao
3.94 avg rating β 218 ratings 9. 
Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village
by:
William Hinton
4.33 avg rating β 460 ratings 
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Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and China Before and After
by:
Anna Wang Yuan
3.96 avg rating β 91 ratings 
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The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village
by:
Dongping Han
4.32 avg rating β 145 ratings 
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The Dragon's Village: An Autobiographical Novel of Revolutionary China
by:
Yuan-Tsung Chen
3.35 avg rating β 245 ratings 39. 
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When Huai Flowers Bloom: Stories of the Cultural Revolution
by:
Shu Jiang Lu
3.33 avg rating β 6 ratings 39. 
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The Palest Ink (Tales of the Scavenger's Daughters #0)
by:
Kay Bratt
4.44 avg rating β 1,901 ratings 39. 
Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson
by:
Paul French
3.72 avg rating β 247 ratings 
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To the Edge of the Sky: A Story of Love, Betrayal, Suffering, and the Strength of Human Courage
by:
Anhua Gao
4.38 avg rating β 779 ratings 53. 
Eighth Moon: The True Story of a Young Girl's Life in Communist China
by:
Bette Bao Lord
3.97 avg rating β 217 ratings 55. 
Ten Years of Madness: Oral Histories of China's Cultural Revolution
by:
Fens Jicai
4.35 avg rating β 115 ratings 
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Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World
by:
Yang Erche Namu
3.94 avg rating β 2,083 ratings 61. 
Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
by:
John Pomfret
4.04 avg rating β 1,461 ratings 
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A Single Tear: A Family's Persecution, Love, and Endurance in Communist China
by:
Wu Ningkun
4.49 avg rating β 331 ratings 66. 
To The Storm: The Odyssey of a Revolutionary Chinese Woman
by:
Daiyun Yue
3.75 avg rating β 89 ratings 
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Blood Red Sunset: A Memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
by:
Ma Bo
3.78 avg rating β 143 ratings 
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Daughter of China: The True Story of Forbidden Love in Modern China
by:
Meihong Xu
3.79 avg rating β 446 ratings 
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Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution
by:
Moying Li
3.73 avg rating β 976 ratings 
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Little Green: Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution
by:
Chun Yu
3.60 avg rating β 177 ratings 
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Beijing Confidential: A Tale of Comrades Lost and Found
by:
Jan Wong
3.73 avg rating β 702 ratings 
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Chinese Lives: An Oral History of Contemporary China
by:
Zhang Xinxin
3.93 avg rating β 41 ratings 
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The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
by:
Ruoxi Chen
3.85 avg rating β 97 ratings 
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Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China
by:
Zhu Xiao Di
3.61 avg rating β 54 ratings 96. 
Six Chapters Of Life In A Cadre School: Memoirs From China's Cultural Revolution
by:
Yang Chiang
3.17 avg rating β 6 ratings 98. 
The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
by:
Ji Xianlin
4.03 avg rating β 361 ratings 99. 
The Red Mirror: Children Of China's Cultural Revolution
by:
Chihua Wen
4.35 avg rating β 20 ratings 100. 
The Killing Wind: A Chinese County's Descent into Madness During the Cultural Revolution
by:
Tan Hecheng
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 22 ratings