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The Dragon's Village

The Dragon's Village

An Autobiographical Novel of Revolutionary China

Yuan-tsung Chen - Author

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ISBN 9780140058116 | 304 pages | 28 May 1981 | Penguin | 5.11 x 7.71in | 18 - AND UP
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Seventeen-year-old Ling-ling joins a revolutionary theater group carrying out reforms in the Chinese countryside in 1949 and amid tumultous events, she grows toward maturity.

Foreword
1. To the Sound of Guns
2. A Glimpse of the Other Side
3. I Choose My Future
4. Journey to the Northwest
5. Cold Welcome in Longxiang
6. The Women
7. Meeting
8. The First Sacrifice
9. Night Shadows
10. Criticism and Self-Criticism
11. The Search
12. Two Confrontations
13. In a Grove of Trees
14. Electioneering
15. Shattered Jade
16. By a Grave, in a Wineshop
17. The Election
18. Three Deaths
19. Vacillation
20. Riding a Tiger
21. Help from a Broken Shoe
22. Getting at the Truth
23. Spring Hunger
24. Land to the Tiller


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