I browsed the gallery while listening to this story. Perhaps the most obvious place is Guangdong’s Museum of Art, where expensive pieces of battle worn soldiers in green uniform are portrayed as heroes and paragons of sacrifice, a virtue prized above all else. Its recent history leaving traces everywhere if you know what to look for. It is fascinating to discover China’s history, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, from different perspectives. The advancement in technology and ideology in recent years is unmatched anywhere else. I listened to this audiobook while visiting Guangzhou, one of the largest cities in China in terms of its economy and population. With the tide of the Cultural Revolution rising, Sisi must decide if she will swim against the current, or get swept up in the wave.Bestselling author Da Chen paints a vivid portrait of his older sister and a land thrust into turmoil during the tumultuous Chinese Cultural Revolution. But the siblings find new threats in Bridge Town, too, and Sisi will face choices between family and nation, between safety and justice. Her only escape is to find work at another school, bringing Da along with her. Worse, she is shamed for her family's past - they are former landowners who have no place in the new Communist order. She brews tea for her grandfather in the morning, leads recitations at school as class monitor, and helps care for her youngest brother, Da.But when students are selected during a school ceremony to join the prestigious Red Guard, Sisi is passed over. In a small village called Yellow Stone, in southeastern China, Sisi is a model sister, daughter, and student. New York Times bestselling author Da Chen weaves a deeply moving account of his resolute older sister and their childhood growing up together during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
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