Notice: Thread forgotten.

TinyChan

New reply in topic: Book

You are not recognized as the original poster of this topic.

:

You are required to fill in a captcha for your first 5 posts. Sorry, but this is required to stop people from posting while drunk. Please be responsible and don't drink and post!
If you receive this often, consider not clearing your cookies.

Please familiarise yourself with the rules and markup syntax before posting.


Original post

Forbidden City' by Vanessa Hua

What it's about: Beginning on the eve of China's Cultural Revolution, "Forbidden City" follows a teenage girl named Mei who the becomes Communist Party chairman's muse, lover and confidante. Within the capital, Mei becomes disillusioned with the chairman and his politics eventually publicly betraying him and running away. Here, she learns just how much female revolutionaries have been erased and rewritten.

The real history: "Forbidden City" tells the stories of women who fought and endured during the Cultural Revolution, only to be left in the heavily edited footnotes of history. Mei is a reimagining of the underage girls Mao Zedong slept with during this time. Here, Hua shines a light on the lesser known role of young women in the Cultural Revolution and disillusionment in abusive political figures.