The Red Mirror

Presenting a spectrum of individual stories of people who saw the Cultural Revolution in China through the eyes of a child, The Red Mirror explores what it was like to be caught up in revolutionary fervor.

Chihua Wen

Foreword -- Author's Introduction -- The Stories -- Prisoners and Wardens -- Butterflies and Rain -- Familiar Weapons -- Poems and Pigs -- A Treat for my Father -- Iron Grandma -- For a Little Love -- Sustaining Life -- A Proper Lady -- In Gorky's Footsteps -- Class Origins -- Presumed Guilt -- No Adolescence -- Postscript