Volume 30, Number 8 · May 12, 1983
Blind Obedience
By John K. Fairbank
Son of the Revolution
by Liang Heng, by Judith Shapiro
Knopf, 301 pp., $15.00
Son of the Revolution is actually three stories in one—first, a graphic I-was-there account of what it was like to grow up during the Cultural Revolution; second, a cliffhanger love story with a happy ending; and third, a poignant analysis of how Chinese people have tried and failed, and tried again, to break out of their past. Each of these accounts is worth reading on its own.
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