Red azalea
/ Anchee Min
- 1st ed.
- New York : Pantheon Books , c1994.
- 306 p. ; 23 cm.
Girl's coming of age during the Chinese Cultural Revolution; betrayed her teacher; sent to a farm by the China Sea as a reward; has a forbidden relationship with her female squad leader; has an affair with a man called "The Supervisor;" and becomes the star of Madam Mao's opera Red Azalea. Her life changes suddenly when Mao dies.