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Bright swallow : making choices in Mao's China : a memoir / Vivian Bi.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
B 951.05 BI	Adult Non Fiction		Padstow .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781925736106 (paperback)
Name	Bi, Vivian author.
Title	Bright swallow : making choices in Mao's China : a memoir / Vivian Bi.
Published	Melbourne, Victoria : Hybrid Publishers, 2019.
Published	©2017
Description	199 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Summary	Bright Swallow, a young girl labelled as of 'bad origins' in Mao's Cultural Revolution, becomes motherless at fifteen in 1972. Determined to live a full life like her mother had known, she seizes every chance, creates choices where there appear to be none and finally has the world open up to her. The memoir distinguishes itself from other accounts of this period in being a story of hope. It celebrates resilience, the power of literature, music and the imagination; and pays tribute to the people who retained the fundamental decency that can easily disappear in adverse circumstances. Mao's China is now history, but similar dark regimes and mad ideologies still exist. There is much suffering from discrimination, humiliation and injustice at this moment. This is why this memoir has been written.
Subjects	Bi, Vivian
	Young women -- China -- Biography
	Orphans -- China -- Biography
	China -- History -- 1949-1976
Genre	Autobiographies
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Autobiographies . Bi, Vivian . China -- History -- 1949-1976 . Orphans -- China -- Biography . Young women -- China -- Biography . See Also: Biography . Diaries . Authors: Bi, Vivian .