by Anchee Min (Author)
This is an evocation of the woman who married Chairman Mao and fought to succeed him. The unwanted daughter of a concubine, she refused to have her feet bound, ran away to join an opera troupe, became an actress in Shanghai, and eventually met Mao Zedong in the mountains of Yenan.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Published: 13 Nov 2000
ISBN 10: 0749004886
ISBN 13: 9780749004880
Book Overview: The author wrote the memoir Red Azalea in 1994 which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.