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"Fifteen years after its first publication, Spider Eaters remains my go-to memoir about coming of age during the Mao years. Rae Yang's work is notable for its reflectiveness, complexity, psychological insight, and unflinching honesty. I commend this riveting work to a generation of readers for whom the cultural Revolution is now of 'merely' historical interest."--Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz
"By oscillating between scenes that are bland in their matter-of-fact concreteness and ones that are almost unbelievable in their nightmarish cruelty and complexity, Rae Yang skillfully evokes the bizarre and contradictory 'revolutionary' world in which she grew up in Mao's China. Spider Eaters is a reminder of what a traumatic history the Chinese people have undergone this century and that a country's past--even when many would rather forget it--always lives irrevocably on within those who experienced it."--Orville Schell, author of Mandate of Heaven
"How can we expect anyone to know the United States without understanding the effect the Sixties had on all of us? Similarly, how can we know China without comprehending the impact the Sixties and the Cultural Revolution had on its politics, culture, and people? Rae Yang's Spider Eaters goes far in building that understanding. It is a gripping memoir."--Lisa See, author of On Gold Mountain
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- Title Spider Eaters: A Memoir
- Author Rae Yang
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press
- Date 2013-03-01
- ISBN 9780520276024 / 0520276027
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Chronological Period: 1970's
- Chronological Period: 1980's
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Chinese
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Dewey Decimal Code 951.050
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