Zhai Zhenhua
Zhai Zhenhua (Chinese: 翟振華, born 1951) is a Chinese autobiographical writer known for her memoir Red Flower of China, which detailed her teenage participation in Mao's Cultural Revolution.[1]
Life[]
Zhai Zhenhua joined the Red Guard and as a fifteen-year-old participated in the violence of the Cultural Revolution.[2] She was later herself purged, but rehabilitated after working on the land and in a factory.[1]
She eventually emigrated to Canada, where she wrote her autobiography.[1]
Works[]
- Red Flower of China, New York: Soho, 1993.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Barbara Fister (1995). Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 334. ISBN 978-0-313-28988-0.
- ^ Jonathan Glover (2012). Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century, Second Edition. Yale University Press. p. 289. ISBN 978-0-300-18640-6.
Categories:
- 1951 births
- Living people
- Chinese autobiographers
- Chinese women writers
- Women autobiographers
- Chinese emigrants to Canada
- Red Guards
- Chinese writer stubs