Becoming Madame Mao

Author : Anchee Min
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547347014
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Madame Mao written by Anchee Min and published by HMH. This book was released on 2001-04-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the national bestselling author of Red Azalea: “Extraordinary . . . Min lets [Madame Mao] be seen as never before. Bottom line: riveting” (People). In a sweeping, erotically charged story, Anchee Min creates a finely nuanced portrait of one of the most fascinating, and vilified, women of the twentieth century. Madame Mao is almost universally known as the “white-boned demon”—ambitious, vindictive, and cruel—whose bid to succeed her husband led to the death of millions. But Anchee Min’s story begins with a young girl named Yunhe, the unwanted daughter of a concubine who ignored her mother’s pleas and refused to have her feet bound. It was the first act of rebellion for this headstrong, beautiful, and charismatic girl, who would find fame as an actress in Shanghai, and later fall in love and marry Mao Zedong. The great revolutionary leader proved to be an inattentive husband with a voracious appetite for infidelity, but the couple stayed together through the Communist victory, the disastrous Great Leap Forward, and the chaos of the Cultural Revolution. Min uses historical facts and her lush, penetrating psychological imagination to take us beyond the myth of the person who so greatly influenced an entire generation of Chinese. The result is a complex portrait of a woman who railed against the confines of her culture, whose deep-seated insecurities propelled her to reinvent herself constantly, and whose ambition was matched only by her ferocious, never-to-be-fulfilled need to be loved. “Sheer poetry.” —The Wall Street Journal “A magnificent book: consequential, significant, beautiful . . . The true heroine is writer Anchee Min.” —San Diego Union-Tribune

Author : Anchee Min
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780753182369
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Madame Mao written by Anchee Min and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an evocation of the woman who married Chairman Mao and fought to succeed him. The unwanted daughter of a concubine, she refused to have her feet bound, ran away to join an opera troupe and eventually met Mao Zedong in the mountains of Yenan.

Author : Anchee Min
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780753182376
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Madame Mao written by Anchee Min and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Empress Orchid. Madame Mao is almost universally known as an ambitious, vindictive and cruel woman, whose bid to succeed her husband led to the death of millions. But her story begins with her childhood self, Yunhe; the daughter of a concubine, she refused to have her feet bound in a first act of rebellion. She later fled the miseries of her childhood, first joining a provincial opera troupe then making a name for herself on the Shanghai stage. She married Mao Zedong, but the revolutionary leader proved to be an inattentive husband with an appetite for infidelity. Despite this, the couple stayed together throughout the Communist victory and the Cultural Revolution. A complex portrayal of one of history's most vilified women, Becoming Madame Mao is a startling and moving achievement.

Author : Anchee Min
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408840855
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Azalea written by Anchee Min and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into a devoutly Maoist family in 1950s Shanghai and forced to work on a communal farm from the age of seventeen, Anchee Min found herself in an alienating and hostile political climate, where her only friendships were perilous and intense. Both candid and touching, this compelling memoir documents her isolation and illicit love against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution. From her coming of age in the Red Guard to her recruitment into Madame Mao's burgeoning industry of propaganda movies, Red Azalea explores the secret sensuality of a repressive society with elegance and honesty.

Author : Anchee Min
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547347200
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empress Orchid written by Anchee Min and published by HMH. This book was released on 2005-04-11 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating novel, similar to Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha . . . A revisionist portrait of a beautiful and strong-willed woman” (Houston Chronicle). A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year From Anchee Min, a master of the historical novel, Empress Orchid sweeps readers into the heart of the Forbidden City to tell the fascinating story of a young concubine who becomes China’s last empress. Min introduces the beautiful Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, and weaves an epic of the country girl who seized power through seduction, murder, and endless intrigue. When China is threatened by enemies, she alone seems capable of holding the country together. In this “absorbing companion piece to her novel Becoming Madame Mao,” readers and reading groups will once again be transported by Min’s lavish evocation of the Forbidden City in its last days of imperial glory and by her brilliant portrait of a flawed yet utterly compelling woman who survived, and ultimately dominated, a male world (The New York Times). “Superb . . . [An] unforgettable heroine.” —People “A sexually charged, eye-opening portrayal of the Chinese empire . . . with heart-wrenching scenes of desperate failure and a sensuality that rises off its heated pages.” —Elle

Author : Anchee Min
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547349378
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Ginger written by Anchee Min and published by HMH. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two girls come of age during the horrors of China’s Cultural Revolution in this novel by the national bestselling author of Empress Orchid. The young and beautiful Wild Ginger is only in elementary school, but has already survived hell through her sheer iron will. Singled out by the Red Guards for her “foreign-colored eyes,” she has seen her deceased father branded a traitor and her mother commit suicide under the oppressive weight of persecution. But the young Wild Ginger will not allow herself to be taken down. Nor will she turn her back on other martyrs—like sweet Maple, daughter of a teacher of Chinese history, survivor of a labor camp, and victim of daily brutal beatings by a gang girl called Hot Pepper. While the two become fast friends over their shared ostracism, it is Wild Ginger who will take her Maoist principles to the extreme, becoming no less than a national model for the revolutionary Communist doctrine. But when both self-possessed young girls begin to feel a prohibited romantic love for the same boy, all three of them will face mortal danger. In this novel, the author of Pearl of China and the New York Times Notable Book Red Azalea “continues her extraordinarily acute inquiry into the wounded psyches of martyrs…and survivors of China's horrific Cultural Revolution… As in all her unsparing, compelling, and transcendent books, Min discerns both the vulnerability and strength of individuals and, more disturbingly, unveils the eroticism of pain. Given our own times, Min's taut and compassionate tale of oppressed teenagers kept in ignorance of the wider world, children brainwashed into performing acts of violence and self-destruction, is especially urgent.”—Booklist

Author : Anchee Min
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608194248
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cooked Seed written by Anchee Min and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1994, Anchee Min made her literary debut with a memoir of growing up in China during the violent trauma of the Cultural Revolution. Red Azalea became an international bestseller and propelled her career as a successful, critically acclaimed author. Twenty years later, Min returns to the story of her own life to give us the next chapter, an immigrant story that takes her from the shocking deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of the promised land of America, without language, money, or a clear path. It is a hard and lonely road. She teaches herself English by watching Sesame Street, keeps herself afloat working five jobs at once, lives in unheated rooms, suffers rape, collapses from exhaustion, marries poorly and divorces.But she also gives birth to her daughter, Lauryann, who will inspire her and finally root her in her new country. Min's eventual successes-her writing career, a daughter at Stanford, a second husband she loves-are remarkable, but it is her struggle throughout toward genuine selfhood that elevates this dramatic, classic immigrant story to something powerfully universal.

Author : Anchee Min
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788726898347
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Mao written by Anchee Min and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ross Terrill
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804729222
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Mao: The White-Boned Demon written by Ross Terrill and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most complete and authoritative account of the childhood and tumultuous life of Jiang Qing, from her early years as an aspiring actress to her marriage and partnership with Mao Zedong, the controversial years of power after Mao's death, her final years of disgrace and imprisonment, and her suicide in 1991.

Author : Anchee Min
Publisher : S. Fischer Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3104907544
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Mao written by Anchee Min and published by S. Fischer Verlag. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Im Gedächtnis vieler Menschen ist sie die weißknöchrige Teufelin, ehrgeizig, unversöhnlich und grausam. Wer Madame Mao wirklich war, bleibt Phantasie und Geheimnis. Dieser Roman erzählt auf unvergleichlich brillante Weise die Geschichte einer Frau, die wie keine andere in China eine ganze Generation geprägt hat und zu den faszinierendsten Frauen des 20. Jahrhunderts gehört. Anchee Min blickt tief in Madame Maos Seele und verleiht einer überaus talentierten, leidenschaftlichen, zornigen Frau eine Stimme. »Liebesgeschichte und politisches Epos zugleich. Die Geschichte der Madame Mao, einer stolzen Schönheit, die zur mächtigsten, meist gefürchteten und schließlich geächteten Frau in China wurde.« ELLE