Austin Chapter
Reader's Guide
December 2005
Red Azalea
Anchee Min
This is an honest and frightening memoir of growing up in Communist China during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s...
- Did you like or dislike the writing style (remembering it is a translation).
- What were some examples of honor to the government versus honor to one parents?
- What did you think of Anchee's mother's punishment of her?
- How was Anchee treated more like an adult than a child in her life at home as well as at the camp?
- What were some of the reasons that Anchee needed Yan?
- What are some examples of the "resilience of the human spirit" under such oppression as in China under Mao?
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