Title: a good learning experience
Product review: What distinguishes this book from other books of Chinese women (Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston) is that it takes place during the post-war era. The story of the grandmother will be familiar to Tan and Kingston readers, but this is where similarities end. The book mostly focuses on the rise of communism in China, from its idealistic beginnings until the author leaves China in the seventies.The book is split into three parts. The grandmother was a concubine to a warlord and later marries a kind older doctor. The mother joins the communist party, and marries a communist official. The daughter struggles between dedication to Mao and her own ideals. Most of the book focuses on the life of author, the daughter in the story.What I took out of this book was a greater understanding of communism, why it appealed to the people of China, and how communism can be twisted into something far less ideal.
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