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Forbidden city : a novel / Vanessa Hua.

Hua, Vanessa, (author.).

Summary:
"A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong's protégée and lover--and a poster child for the Cultural Revolution--in this provocative, poignant novel from the bestselling author of A River of Stars On the eve of China's Cultural Revolution and her sixteenth birthday, Mei dreams of becoming a model revolutionary. When the Communist Party recruits girls for a mysterious duty in the capital, she seizes the opportunity to escape her impoverished village. It is only when Mei arrives at the Chairman's opulent residence-a forbidden city unto itself-that she learns that the girls' job is to dance with the Party elites. Ambitious and whip-smart, Mei makes a beeline toward the Chairman. Mei gradually separates from the other recruits to become the Chairman's confidante-and paramour. As he fends off political rivals, Mei faces down schemers from the dance troupe who will stop at nothing to take her place, as well as the Chairman's imperious wife, who has schemes of her own. When the Chairman finally gives Mei a political mission, she seizes it with fervor, but the brutality of this latest stage of the revolution makes her begin to doubt all the certainties she has held so dear. Forbidden City is an epic yet intimate portrayal of one of the world's most powerful and least understood leaders during the most turbulent period of modern Chinese history. Mei's harrowing journey toward truth and disillusionment raises questions about power, manipulation, and belief, as seen through the eyes of a passionate teenage girl"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780399178818
  • ISBN: 0399178813
  • Physical Description: 355 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2022]
Subject: Teenage girls > Fiction.
Communism > Fiction.
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 > Fiction.
China > History > Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.

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  • 14 of 14 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Albright Memorial Library FICTION HUA (Text) 50686016170453 Adult Fiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library F HUA (Text) 33240004934959 Adult Fiction Available -
Dillsburg Area Public Library Adults HUA Fiction (Text) 34001001414885 Adult Area Available -
Exeter Community Library HUA (Text) 33249025334040 Fiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library Fiction Hua (Text) 39427103659074 Fiction Room: Adult Fiction Available -
New Oxford Library HIST FIC HUA VANESSA (Text) 35740635841497 Historical Fiction Available -
Paul Smith Library of Southern York County Adults HUA Fiction (Text) 34318001204102 Adult Area Available -
Reading Public Library RPL - Main Fiction Hua (Text) 33223008919325 Fiction Available -
Valley Community Library FICTION HUA (Text) 50690111277882 Adult Fiction Available -
Whitehall Township Public Library F HUA, VANESSA (Text) 36305003000156 Adult Fiction Available -

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