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Moying Li: Snow Falling in Spring
May 3, 2008
Moying Li writer

Moying Li tells the compelling story of one girl's difficult but determined coming-of-age during the Cultural Revolution in China.

In 1966 Moying Li, a student at a prestigious language school in Beijing, seems destined for a promising future. Everything changes when student Red Guards begin to orchestrate brutal assaults, violent public humiliations, and forced confessions. After watching her teachers and headmasters beaten in public, Moying flees school for the safety of home, only to witness her beloved grandmother denounced, her home ransacked, and her father's precious books flung onto the back of a truck while he himself is taken away. From labor camp, her father smuggles a reading list of banned books to Moying so that she can continue to learn. Then, with so much of her life at risk, she finds sanctuary in the world of imagination and learning.

History | Literature & Philosophy
Asian | Fiction | Non-Fiction
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Image of Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution (Melanie Kroupa Books)
Author: Moying Li
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 192 pages
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