![]() ![]() ![]() Red Azalea is a revelatory and disturbing impression of China. But as shooting of the film commenced, Chairman Mao suddenly died, taking with him an entire world, and changing forever life as Anchee Min had known it. Then, from a pool of twenty thousand candidates, Min became a finalist for the film version of one of Madame Mao's political operas. She fell in love with her company leader, and under a grubby mosquito net, always fearful of exposure by a vindictive colleague, the two women found emotional solace. And yet, forbidden to speak, to dress, to read, write, or love as she pleased, she found a lifeline that enabled her to survive the horrors of her daily existence. At seventeen she was sent to work at a labor collective, the Red Fire Farm, where her education in fear, deprivation, and hardship continued. Born in Shanghai in 1957 Anchee Min, as a member of the Little Red Guards, was asked to betray and publicly humiliate a beloved teacher. Red Azalea is the story of a young woman's emotional and political education in the last years of Mao's China. ![]()
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