REQUIRED READING
By BILLY HELLER
March 16, 2008 -- New York Post
Snow Falling In Spring
by Moying Li (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
From 12 to 22, Moying Li witnessed children turning in their parents for insufficient fealty to Mao and the Communist Party; city dwellers and intellectuals sent to the countryside for forced farm labor; marauding Red Guards. Her school headmaster hanged himself. But she survives to become of one of the first Chinese students to study in the US, and now lives in Boston. She tells the story with simple eloquence.
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