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Red Azalea by Anchee Min is a little bit racy, but it is by far the
best memoir on the Cultural Revolution. Min is a great writer, and I
also enjoyed reading Becoming Madam Mao , The Last Empress , and
Katherine. I kind of thought that my teaching life in China would be
similar to the main character (Katherine) in this book, but I was
wrong. The area of
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and I barely saw grass for a year!
In 2001, I graduated college and decided to go teach English in China. I decided that the best way to prepare would be to read some books, both fiction and non-fiction, on China. Here is a list of some of the books I read to prepare for my first visit to
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Wild Swans by Jung Chang is one of the best memoirs out there on China. This is usually the first book people read about China, and for
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