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I was born in a small city near the East Sea,
when the Great Cultural Revolution began.
My name is Little Green,
my country Zhong Guo, the Middle Kingdom.
When I was ten years old,
our leader had died and the revolution ended.
And this is how I remember it.
When Chun Yu was born in a small city in China, she was born into a country in revolution. The streets were filled with roaming Red Guards, the walls were covered with slogans, and reeducation meetings were held in all workplaces. Every family faced danger and humiliation, even the youngest children.
Shortly after Chun's birth, her beloved father was sent to a peasant village in the countryside to be reeducated in the ways of Chairman Mao. Chun and her brother stayed behind with their mother, who taught in a country middle school where Mao's Little Red Book was a part of every child's education. Chun Yu's young life was witness to a country in turmoil, struggle, and revolution — the only life she knew.
This first-person memoir of a child's view of the Chinese Cultural Revolution is a stunning account of a country in crisis and a testimony to the spirit of the individual — no matter how young or how innocent.
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Kathy Sill
reviewed Little Green: Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution on January 16, 2013
Little Green: Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Little Green: Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution
by Chun Yu
Non-Fiction, Memoir
128 Pages
Little Green is a girl born during the cultural revolution. Her father is sent to an academy where he is to be "reeducated", and her mother and grandparents work in the fields all day. Since the beginning of her school years, she is taught that Chairman Mao is a good person and that intellectuals and landlords are evil. Little Green is confused and asks her grandparents why the landlords were so evil. Her grandmother responds by saying that some landlords were good and treated peasants well(hinting that their family may have once been intellectuals or landlords). When she is in about middle school, their family is relocated to the city, where she is made fun of as a farmland girl. It is there where she sees people who were considered "intellectuals" executed. Her parents are worried about the revolution and fear they might be accused of not being good citizens because of their backgrounds. But they survive. The book ends with Mao's death and the end of the revolution.
I think this was a book that made me think about how lucky I am to live in America. In the epilogue it says that the author/Little Green made it to America, but others may not have been so lucky. This book is good because it is told in a poem/memoir format, showing snapshots of what happened during that time and gives you a chance to feel the life of a child born during the revolution. The book is kind of mysterious too because Little green is only half aware of what is happening around her, so the reader gets to feel the suspense of what is happening. Overall, I would rate this book a 4 out of 5.
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