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Article: Min, Anchee. Wild ginger.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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MIN, Anchee. Wild ginger. Houghton Mifflin, Mariner. 217p. c2002. 0-618-38043-4. $13.00. SA

The Cultural Revolution in China of the late 1960s and 1970s may seem like a distant time and place to most American readers, but Min's book makes it seem real. The story of two young girls, Maple and Wild Ginger, who grow up together and find different ways of surviving in Maoist China, is the basis of this ...

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