Summary: Set in the early 1970s during the later stages of China's Cultural Revolution, two city-bred teenage best friends are sent to a backward mountainous region for Maoist re-education.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Empire Pictures 2005
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BALSummary: A coming-of-age tale set in the final days of China's Cultural Revolution. Eleven-year-old Wang lives with his family in a remote village in Guizhou Province. Life is tough, but they make the most of what little they have. When Wang is selected to lead his school in daily gymnastics, he is told he must wear a clean, new shirt, which forces his family to make a great sacrifice. Soon after, Wang...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ELEBranigan, Tania
Summary: "'It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,' Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their supposed political sins, while tens of millions were hounded, ostracized, and imprisoned. Yet in China this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.056 BRAVan Fleet, Xi
Summary: "A liberty-defending survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution in China makes a passionate case that history is eerily repeating itself as the Woke Revolution spreads across America. Xi Van Fleet lived through the horrors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl. Forced to the countryside with other young Chinese for re-education after high school, she later escaped communism and found...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2023
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Summary: "As a child living in exile during the Cultural Revolution, Ai Weiwei often found himself with nothing to read but government-approved comic books. Although they were restricted by the confines of political propaganda, Ai Weiwei was struck by the artists' ability to express their thoughts on art and humanity through graphic storytelling. Now, decades later, Ai Weiwei and Italian comic artist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 AI, WEIWEI AICao, Wenxuan
Summary: Ah Mei has always been close to her French grandmother, Nainai, and is proud to look like her. But in their home city of Shanghai, many people are suspicious of their European heritage and looks. Politics and war make 1960s Shanghai a difficult place to grow up, especially when the family silk business is given over to the government and they are left with their beloved home and little else. Ah...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CAOSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010