When He Asked My Grandmother If She

Although My Book Is Banned I Am Still Allowed To Go To China And Travel. There Is No Longer The Kind Of Control That Mao Used To Have-there Have Been Deep Fundamental Changes In Society.

China Is More Prosperous Than Before. The People Have Better Lives But They Are Not Happy And Confident Because The Scars Are Still There.

I No Longer Have The Terrible Nightmares That I Used To Have. Mao Had Just Died In 1976, And China Began To Open Up. For The First Time Scholarships To Go To The West To Study Were Awarded On Academic Merit.

At The Age Of Fifteen My Grandmother Became The Concubine Of A Warlord General.

...boredom Was As Exhausting As Backbreaking Labor.