Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now Scotiabank Giller Prize (2012) ready for whatever life has

ready for whatever life has to throw at her

Bell explores what that involves

mixed with a more picaresque and multistranded approach that has the significant advantage of taking in a wider swathe of America' - The Sunday Times

or the man who chose to end it all in Chungking Mansions

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Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now Scotiabank Giller Prize (2012) ready for whatever life hasJan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believerand one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing Universityher education included wielding a pneumatic drill at the Number One Machine Tool Factory. In the name of the Revolution, she renounced rock & roll, hauled pig manure in the paddy fields, and turned in a fellow student who sought her help