Compestine, Ying Chang.

Revolution is not a dinner party : a novel / Ying Chang Compestine. - 1st ed. - New York : H. Holt, 2007. - 248 p. : maps ; 21 cm.

Maps on endpapers.

Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.

A Junior Library Guild selection

ISBN: 0805082077 (alk. paper) 142875704X (BWI bdg.) 9780805082074 (alk. paper) 9781428757042 (BWI bdg.)

Source: Junior Library Guild http://www.juniorlibraryguild.com

LCCN: 2006035465

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Communism--Fiction.
Family life--China--Fiction.
Family--China--Fiction.
Persecution--Fiction.
Persecution--Fiction.
Physicians--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.C73615 / Rev 2007

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]