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Revolution is not a dinner party by Ying Chang Compestine · Booklabria

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Revolution is not a dinner party

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First published: 2007
Language: English
Editions: 6

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Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, 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.

Subjects: History
Children's fiction
Family life
Families
Family
Physicians
Set in: China
Time: Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976

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