Compestine, Ying Chang.

Revolution is not a dinner party : a novel / Ying Chang Compestine. - 1st ed. - New York : H. Holt, 2007. - 248 p. : maps ; 21 cm.

Maps on endpapers.

Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.

A Junior Library Guild selection

9780312581497

Junior Library Guild http://www.juniorlibraryguild.com

2006035465


Persecution--Juvenile fiction.
Families--China--Juvenile fiction.
Physicians--Juvenile fiction.
Communism--Juvenile fiction.
Persecution--Fiction.
Family life--China--Fiction.
Physicians--Fiction.
Communism--Fiction.


China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Juvenile fiction.
China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Fiction.

PZ7.C73615 / Rev 2007

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