Life Under Mao Zedong Rule eBook DaPeng Zhang
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On Oct 1, 1949, when Mao Zedong proclaimed the official establishment of the People’s Republic of China, the aims of the Communist Party of China were still largely unknown to the majority of the war-weary Chinese. Now a new kind of state had emerged— a People’s Republic. People wondered with varying emotions what new changes this would bring to their daily lives and to their country.
Zhang Da-Peng’s novelistic memoir of his first four decades, Life under Mao Zedong’s Rule, is a striking and chillingly unforgettable response to this question, for three of these decades encompassed the entire Maoist period, that is, from 1949 to 1977, when Deng Xiaoping assumed the helm of the Chinese state. Zhang Da-Peng was an eight-year-old boy of a middle class family living in Shanghai on that day in 1949. As the years passed, he, along with millions of his compatriots, was swept up in Mao’s epic experiment to revolutionize all of Chinese life. And like countless others, Da-Peng personally became the target of the “class struggle,” as the Communist Party undertook a never-ending cycle of absurdly destructive political campaigns and purges of the so-called enemies of Socialism that culminated in the Cultural Revolution and the terrifying near-complete breakdown of Chinese society and institutions.
Written many years later in Hong Kong, Life under Mao Zedong’s Rule is both Zhang Da-Peng’s dramatic and deeply humanistic personal memoir and his impassioned call to his fellow Chinese not to bury the memories of those terrible years in newfound prosperity but to reform the continuing abuses of the political system, lest tyranny recurs in China. For the general reader this is an intensely moving portrait of the struggle to survive the massive and ultimately disastrous national transformation under Mao Zedong’s rule.
Life Under Mao Zedong Rule eBook DaPeng Zhang
Students of modern China and Chinese politics and society will thoroughly enjoy this book. It introduces all the major events/movements of modern Chinese politics from the 1950s to the end of the Cultural Revolution through the eyes of one person and his family and friends. It reads like a novel but is largely factual.This book really makes you feel for the poor guy, as if you are standing with him when all these tragedies were unfolding. You feel like you are there in the struggle sessions with him, wondering if he will go down and hoping he does not. It gives a very personal experience of all these major modern events, unlike purely scholarly books about this period. The ending is exciting and fascinating.
This book sets the stage for the next one by Zhang Da-Peng called "The Golden Road", and provides a contrast to the roaring 1990s when I and many foreigners went to China to work. I recommend you read Life Under Mao before the Golden Road book. Highly recommended for students of China and those who want an enjoyable read without all the technical jargon.
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Life Under Mao Zedong Rule eBook DaPeng Zhang Reviews
I read this book with a sense of anxiety and surprise. Although written in the third person, it describes the author's life under Mao's rule beginning with his school years. He undergoes the folly of some of Mao's policies as well as their threat of impending doom for those whose every thought does not conform to the Communist way. I could not help comparing my own life during that time with that of the author, whose life and the lives of everyone he knows is dominated, scrutinized, and judged. Every personal freedom is removed.
The style of the book is easy to read and told in very personal style. There are scholarly footnotes for those who wish to know more, but the book is thoroughly clear for those who don't.
I found myself thinking of this book and those harrowing years for every single person in China during those years long after I had finished reading it. It evoked a strong sense of compassion in me and an appreciation of my own freedoms in the US.
This story of a discerning young person coming of age without parents present during some of the darkest years of the Chinese Communist Revolution, has consistently amazed me by its clarity. His life experience gives context to the destructive power of ideology practiced on a massive scale. The author's writing style is straight forward, but deeply compelling, sharing particularly with the western reader, the mystery of survival and even hope for the future among Chinese people suffering the cruelest injustice and privation. The translator has provided excellent footnotes of the historic movements and important players, and once again, his faithful translation gives us the powerful gift of Da-Peng Zhang's story. I hope there will be more of this collaboration between author and translator; I would buy the next book in a heartbeat.
Amazing story and history! I'm one who is fascinated by history. However it seems unless you dig deep into it, you're left with either half the story, an outright lie or a story written by those that benefited from the wrongdoings.
Not speaking Chinese I thought it would be hard to pronounce many of the Chinese names and words. Right from the beginning the translator gives a little easy lesson on how to pronounce words and names. Easy reading!
In my personal opinion all history is important. Whether it's of my own country or any other place in the world. The truth you may find is sometimes disappointing. The more I read Life Under Mao Zedong's Rule the more I wanted to know. This is a bit of history that didn't turn out so rosy.
How the main character would not let go of his humanity and his sense of what is right and what is wrong through situations most people could not imagine, speaks immensely about him.
For those of you not from China that may be stuck on reading history only about your own country, I strongly suggest taking a chance and step outside your boundaries and read Life Under Mao Zedong's Rule.
Students of modern China and Chinese politics and society will thoroughly enjoy this book. It introduces all the major events/movements of modern Chinese politics from the 1950s to the end of the Cultural Revolution through the eyes of one person and his family and friends. It reads like a novel but is largely factual.
This book really makes you feel for the poor guy, as if you are standing with him when all these tragedies were unfolding. You feel like you are there in the struggle sessions with him, wondering if he will go down and hoping he does not. It gives a very personal experience of all these major modern events, unlike purely scholarly books about this period. The ending is exciting and fascinating.
This book sets the stage for the next one by Zhang Da-Peng called "The Golden Road", and provides a contrast to the roaring 1990s when I and many foreigners went to China to work. I recommend you read Life Under Mao before the Golden Road book. Highly recommended for students of China and those who want an enjoyable read without all the technical jargon.
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