Saturday, November 10, 2007

Balzak and the Little Chinese Seamstress

From: Julie


Balzak and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Dai Sijie

I heard about this book awhile ago and found it on the shelves on my libary. Very interesting story about the "re-education" of Chinese citizens. This happened in the 1990's! The story is fiction, but the re-education did occur.

The story is about two friends who were sent to be re-educated in a very remote mountain village. Their parents were highly educated, doctors, dentist. Therefore the boys needed to be re-educated. Interesting story.

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