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Title	:	Colors of the Mountain
Author	:	Da Chen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	January 16th 2001 by Anchor Books (first published January 1st 1999)
Categories	:	Cultural. China. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Asia. History

Colors of the Mountain Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

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Colors of the Mountain is a classic story of triumph over adversity, a memoir of a boyhood full of spunk, mischief, and love, and a welcome introduction to an amazing young writer.

Da Chen was born in 1962, in the Year of Great Starvation. Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution engulfed millions of Chinese citizens, and the Red Guard enforced Mao's brutal communist regime. Chen's family belonged to the despised landlord class, and his father and grandfather were routinely beaten and sent to labor camps, the family of eight left without a breadwinner. Despite this background of poverty and danger, and Da Chen grows up to be resilient, tough, and funny, learning how to defend himself and how to work toward his future. By the final pages, when his says his last goodbyes to his father and boards the bus to Beijing to attend college, Da Chen has become a hopeful man astonishing in his resilience and cheerful strength.

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Original Title:	Colors of the Mountain
ISBN:	0385720602 (ISBN13: 9780385720601)
Edition Language:	English

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Maybe I have read too many Cultural Revolution memoirs, and perhaps Da Chen's success in the U. S. was revealed way too soon, but I was disappointed in both the writing and the lack of suspense. This book is used as a One Book, One College and on this level it has merit. What he had to do to obtain an education and learn English is certainly something most Western students take for granted. And as the youngest in his family he saw his siblings become older than their years working on the farm

This memoir has changed my perspective on the years of education that I have taken for granted. Reading about Da Chen's fervent yearning to be able to go to college--the sacrifices, the studying, the praying, all of it--was really inspiring. When I finished, I was overwhelmed by the thought: "And to think that some people DON'T WANT to go to college because they don't want to have to work that hard or for that long." I never realized how fortunate I am.Aside from enjoying the basic theme of the

I have read a lot of non fiction Communist area books . I actually had to check to see if this was fiction but it is a memoir.The book comes off as a peaches & cream childhood where they have pigs, chickens & rice in the country side at a time according to history, there was mass starvation and canalbalism under Mao. Every other page featured people smoking, talking about smoking or handing out smokes. Either the author works for Philip Morris or is in love with cigarettes. Any hard

Colors of the Mountain is a satisfying read. Though I probably never would have read it had it not been for my Nonwestern Literature class, I am glad I did, and found it pretty relatable. Its a good read, easy to get into and makes you want to finish. Da Chens memoir tells his story of growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution. We learn in history class about how Mao Zedong ran the country into the ground with Communism, and how Communism is evil as we know from the Cold War. But most

This is an amazing memoir. As with most memoirs, it's very hard to know the degree to which the author is a reliable narrator; aspects of this recounted life feel almost too well plotted to be real. But I have no reason to disbelieve them and the book is a real pleasure to read: local boy meets all kinds of people and ultimately makes good, through the kindness and confidence of key mentors, the sacrifice of his parents, and his own incredibly hard work. And he (and his family) do it while

I highly recommend this book about how the grandson of a land owner, whose family and he were legally and with malice persecuted at home, at work, and at school, overcame this malice and, in the changed climate after the death of Mao, was able to overcome malice and neglect to outscore his peers and leave for Beijing (and later America!). The book begins when Da's father is in prison and his grandfather is arrested, every year, to be paraded through the village and beaten. Every year. His older

Da Chens Colors of the Mountain was a particularly enthralling memoir. The autobiography follows the story of a young boy born at the height of China's starvation under the leadership of Chairman Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution (1966-67) and follows the drawbacks he faces throughout his adolescence and into adulthood. Inheriting a social rejection from his community for being the by-product of a landlord in Communist China, Da and his family face ridicule every time they leave their