Starla's Reviews > Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution

A sobering but rich book on many levels---a story of a strong young girl who perseveres the confusion and brutality of the Chinese Cultural Revolution with honesty but without bitterness. Moying Li shares her memoirs of a turbulent time but also the beauty of family and friends. At the same time, she reveals the dangers of government-gone-wild, where ideology supersedes individual thoughts and expression, the logical extreme of political correctness; she watched teachers, family and friends suffer humiliation and harm for "being disloyal to the Party." In spite of this upheaval, she rises above, never loses love for her home country, and survives with quiet and humble strength.