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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

^ ^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.

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[Fister1995-1] 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.

[Glover2012-2] Jonathan Glover (2012). Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century, Second Edition. Yale University Press. p. 289. ISBN 978-0-300-18640-6.

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