Yuan-tsung Chen
Autor von The Dragon's Village: An Autobiographical Novel of Revolutionary China
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- 1932
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- female
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- China (birth)
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- Shanghai, China
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- Chen, Jack (husband)
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This is an interesting read and the parallels are certainly unavoidable. Yet I found myself mentally pencilling question marks in the margins here and there as I read. I'm no expert in Chinese history, and I'm certainly not suggesting that Chen is fabricating any of the events she describes here. (Although apparently there have been some critiques of her memoir on the grounds that so many sources from the period were destroyed that parts are unverifiable, and that Chen may have exaggerated her closeness to figures such as Zhou En-Lai.) But I did notice how, in her telling, Chen is always on the right side of history. Maybe it is possible for someone to have their moral compass point unwaveringly true north in the midst of such insanity, but I'm not sure it's a feat I could match.… (mehr)