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

A young woman grows up under Maoist oppression in China and survives through the power of reading in this "simply and hauntingly told" YA memoir (The New York Times).

In 1966, Moying Li was a young student in Beijing, destined for a promising future. But everything changed when student Red Guards began a series of brutal assaults, public humiliations, and forced confessions. After witnessing her teachers beaten in public, Moying fled for the safety of home, only to see her grandmother denou...