Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1997). "Spanning the years from 1950 to 1980, Rae Yang's story is evocative, complex, and told with striking candor. It is at once a moving personal story, a fascinating family history, and a unique chronicle of political upheaval told by a Chinese woman who came of age during the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution. With stunning honesty and a lively, sly humor, Rae Yang records her life from her early years as the daughter of Chinese diplomats in Switzerland, to her girlhood at an elite middle school in Beijing, to her adolescent experience as a Red Guard and later as a laborer on a pig farm in the remote northern wilderness and of her eventual disillusionment with the Maoist revolution." Photographs. xi, 285 pp. ISBN: 0-520215982.