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Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution

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Most people cannot keep in mind that when their childhood ended. I, then again, have a crystal-clear memory of that moment. It happened at night in the summertime of 1966, when my elementary school headmaster hanged himself.

In 1966 Moying, a student at a prestigious language school in Beijing, seems destined for a promising future. The whole thing changes when student Red Guards begin to orchestrate brutal assaults, violent public humiliations, and forced confessions. After watching her teachers and headmasters beaten in public, Moying flees school for the safety of home, only to witness her beloved grandmother denounced, her home ransacked, her father’s precious books flung onto the back of a truck, and Baba himself taken away. From labor camp, Baba entrusts a friend to deliver a reading list of banned books to Moying in order that she can continue to be informed. Now, with such a lot of her life at risk, she finds sanctuary on the earth of imagination and learning.

This inspiring memoir follows Moying Li from age twelve to twenty-two, illuminating a complex, dark time in China’s history as it tells the compelling story of one girl’s difficult but decided coming-of-age all through the Cultural Revolution.

Snow Falling in Spring is a 2009 Bank Street – Best Children’s Book of the Year.

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