A Hundred Flowers, by Gail Tsukiyama (fiction) – Mao’s China, family’s fracture

You can see the White Cloud Mountain, if you look hard.You must climb the spiny kapok tree to get high enough.Is any tree tall enough to see where Tao’s father is? Chairman Mao asked that “one hundred schools of thought” contend so that “one hundred flowers” would bloom during the Cultural Revolution. But could intellectuals … Continue reading A Hundred Flowers, by Gail Tsukiyama (fiction) – Mao’s China, family’s fracture