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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Hua, Vanessa, author.     Subjects     Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 -- Fiction.     Teenage girls -- China -- Fiction.     Communism -- Fiction.     China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hua, Vanessa, author.       by title:      Forbidden city : a n...         MARC Display

Forbidden city : a novel / Vanessa Hua. by Hua, Vanessa, author. New York : Ballantine Books, [2022] Subjects Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 -- Fiction.   Teenage girls -- China -- Fiction.   Communism -- Fiction.   China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780399178818 (hardcover) : 0399178813 (hardcover) Description:  355 pages ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong's protégée and lover--and a poster child for the Cultural Revolution--in this provocative, poignant novel. On the eve of China's Cultural Revolution and her sixteenth birthday, Mei dreams of becoming a model revolutionary. When the Communist Party recruits girls for a mysterious duty in the capital, she seizes the opportunity to escape her impoverished village. It is only when Mei arrives at the Chairman's opulent residence--a forbidden city unto itself--that she learns that the girls' job is to dance with the Party elites. Ambitious and whip-smart, Mei makes a beeline toward the Chairman. Mei gradually separates from the other recruits to become the Chairman's confidante-and paramour. As he fends off political rivals, Mei faces down schemers from the dance troupe who will stop at nothing to take her place, as well as the Chairman's imperious wife, who has schemes of her own. When the Chairman finally gives Mei a political mission, she seizes it with fervor, but the brutality of this latest stage of the revolution makes her begin to doubt all the certainties she has held so dear. Forbidden City is an epic yet intimate portrayal of one of the world's most powerful and least understood leaders during the most turbulent period of modern Chinese history. Mei's harrowing journey toward truth and disillusionment raises questions about power, manipulation, and belief, as seen through the eyes of a passionate teenage girl"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Hawaii State Library Adult Fiction Hua   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Fiction Hua   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Fiction Hua   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Fiction Hua   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kealakekua Public Library Adult Fiction Hua   Checked In Add Copy to MyList McCully-Moiliili Public Library Adult Fiction Hua   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Naalehu Public Library Adult Fiction Hua   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Thelma Parker Memorial P/S Library Adult Fiction Hua   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waimea Public Library (Kauai) Adult Fiction Hua Historical Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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