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Compestine, Ying Chang.
Revolution is not a dinner party / Ying Chang Compestine.
p. cm.
Summary: Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists’ Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed “bourgeois,” and people of laughter.
[1. China—History—Cultural Revolution, 1966–1976—Juvenile fiction.
2. China—History—Cultural Revolution, 1966–1976—Fiction.
3. Persecution—Fiction. 4. Family life—China—Fiction. 5. Physicians—Fiction.
6. Communism—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.C73615Rev 2007 [Fic]—dc22 2006035465
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