Revolution is not a dinner party : a novel /

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by Compestine, Ying Chang.
[ 12. Miscellaneous ] Published by : Square Fish, (New York :) Physical details: 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm. Subject(s): Persecution --Fiction. | Families --China --Fiction. | Physicians --Fiction. | Communism --Fiction. | China --History --Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 --Fiction. Year : 2007 12. Miscellaneous Item type : 12. Miscellaneous
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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.