Dragon's Village : An Autobiographical Novel of Revolutionary China

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Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1981-05-01
Publisher(s): Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Summary

Seventeen-year-old Ling-ling joins a revolutionary theater group carrying out reforms in the Chinese countryside in 1949 and amid tumultous events, she grows toward maturity.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
To the Sound of Guns
3(13)
A Glimpse of the Other Side
16(13)
I Choose My Future
29(19)
Journey to the Northwest
48(15)
Cold Welcome in Longxiang
63(17)
The Women
80(15)
Meeting
95(16)
The First Sacrifice
111(7)
Night Shadows
118(11)
Criticism and Self-Criticism
129(13)
The Search
142(9)
Two Confrontations
151(10)
In a Grove of Trees
161(10)
Electioneering
171(10)
Shattered Jade
181(7)
By a Grave, in a Wineshop
188(15)
The Election
203(14)
Three Deaths
217(8)
Vacillation
225(12)
Riding a Tiger
237(10)
Help from a Broken Shoe
247(10)
Getting at the Truth
257(8)
Spring Hunger
265(10)
Land to the Tiller
275

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