A TRUE STORY of endurance and courage as an adolescent girl
struggles to say alive and sane during social chaos.
After Ting-xing was born her great aunt predicted, “Ah Si she
ge lau lu ming!”--Number 4 will have a difficult life.
Great Aunt was right!
China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution turned Number 4’s
life--and that of her four siblings--upside down. After the death
of both her parents, Ting-xing and her brothers and sisters endure
the brutality of Red Guard attacks on their schools and even their
apartment as they struggle against poverty and hunger.
At sixteen, Ting-xing is exiled to a prison farm far from home,
where she spends six years labouring in the rice paddies alongside
other teens who had been “sent down” to the countryside to learn
from the peasants.
At the centre of this best-selling memoir is the feisty and
courageous Ting-xing, fighting to survive as a young woman caught
up in events far beyond her control.
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