During Mao Tse-Tung's "Cultural Revolution," applauded at the time by all correct thinking people in the West, intellectuals, doctors, lawyers and their children were sent to remote and primitive areas of China to be "re-educated." This meant performing menial tasks such as breaking rocks and carrying buckets of dung. The narrator of this marvelous book and his friend Luo are both children of doctors who are undergoing their "re-education." Their sole distraction is the beautiful daughter of the local tailor. But then their ...
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During Mao Tse-Tung's "Cultural Revolution," applauded at the time by all correct thinking people in the West, intellectuals, doctors, lawyers and their children were sent to remote and primitive areas of China to be "re-educated." This meant performing menial tasks such as breaking rocks and carrying buckets of dung. The narrator of this marvelous book and his friend Luo are both children of doctors who are undergoing their "re-education." Their sole distraction is the beautiful daughter of the local tailor. But then their "re-education" takes a dramatic turn for the better. They discover a hidden cache of Western literature in Chinese translation, and they are transported to worlds they thought they would never see again.
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