Compestine, Ying Chang.

Revolution is not a dinner party : a novel / Ying Chang Compestine. - 1st Square Fish edition. - New York : Square Fish, 2009, c2007. - 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.

Originally published: New York : Henry Holt, 2007. With additional material. "Go fish--look inside for an interview with Ying Chang Compestine"--P. [4] of cover.

Starting in 1972 when she is nine, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.

ISBN: 9780312581497 0312581491

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Persecution--Fiction.
Families--China--Fiction.
Physicians--Fiction.
Communism--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.C73615 / Rev 2009

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]