The One-Tree Grove and Chairman Mao's Zhiqing

The Cultural Revolution has many aspects. This book gives a very detailed description of the most common aspect of the Cultural Revolution, which westerners tend to neglect or simply have no idea about. "It reveals social and cultural aspects of life in rural China - something that most North Americans don't have a clue about," said K. Green. "It has been the first time for me to read a novel so sincere, simple and so fully detailed about China," a female reader from Vancouver, Canada commented. "This story gives insight into the political, educational and economic climate in China in 1970s," H. Toth commented. This is a book about the love story of a village girl and a Zhiqing boy. Meinia was a pretty village girl living in Xishuangbanna, which is close to the southern border of China. Just after her graduation from high school, she was appointed accountant of her village. Responding to Chairman Mao's call, five members of Zhiqing (urban high school graduates) came to her village. She and other villagers did their best to help the Zhiqing. But these Zhiqing inflicted huge and lasting hurt and pains on her and the villagers. Filling with details and full of wisdom of an oriental culture, this fiction book not only contains knowledge about the daily life of the Chinese peasants during the Cultural Revolution but also gives you enjoyment of the bright songs and interesting local custom of a minority culture of China.