![]() He died soon after, and then Ting-Xing watched her mother’s struggle with poverty end in stomach cancer. A botched operation left him paralyzed from the waist down, and his health deteriorated rapidly since a capitalist’s well-being was not a priority. While Ting-Xing was a young girl in Shanghai, her father’s rubber factory was expropriated by the state, and he was demoted to a labourer. In the wave of revolutionary fervour, peasants neglected their crops, exacerbating the widespread hunger. It was an astonishing coming of age through the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1974). Ting-Xing Ye’s riveting first book, A Leaf in the Bitter Wind, is a memoir of growing up in Maoist China. ![]() One of the best ways to understand history is through eye-witness accounts.
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