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Red Fire: Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Wei Yang Chao, author
In August 1966, a 14-year-old boy in Beijing is thrust into violence and chaos as the Cultural Revolution begins to blaze across China. Fifty years later, Red Fire offers the first intimate account from someone who lived through the turbulent events and survived. Wei Yang Chao gives readers a rare glimpse into the social upheaval, a riveting story told with real force and heartbreaking honesty.
Reviews
—Kirkus Reviews
"A deeply satisfying book…The arc of this engrossing journey should transport readers to China, turning them into eyewitnesses to these turbulent events."
Jasmin Darznik, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Daughter: A Memoir
"Red Fire is an unforgettable historical testimony, plunging us into the most turbulent years of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. We travel alongside the young narrator and share his excitement, bewilderment, and rage, and by the end of the book we are forced to recognize that this is one of the greatest gifts literature can provide us: to recover a lost but living world."