| Description |
xvii, 451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
I: My childhood -- 1. Home -- 2. My Niang and Dia -- 3/ A commune childhood -- 4. The seven of us -- 5. Na-na -- 6. Chairman Mao's classroom -- 7. Leaving home -- II: Beijing -- 8. Feather in a whirlwind -- 9. The caged bird -- 10. That first lonely year -- 11. The pen -- 12. My own voice -- 13. Teacher Xio's words -- 14. Turning points -- 15. The mango -- 16. Change -- 17. On the way to the West -- 18. The filthy capitalist America -- 19. Good-bye, China -- III: The West -- 20. Return to the land of freedom -- 21. Elizabeth -- 22. Defection -- 23. My new life -- 24. A millet dream come true -- 25. No more nightmares -- 26. Russia -- 27. Mary -- 28. Going home -- 29. Back in my village -- 30. Another wedding: Qingdao. |
| Subject |
Li, Cunxin, 1961-
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Ballet dancers -- China -- Biography.
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Defectors -- China -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
039915096X |
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