Forbidden City
By Vanessa Hua
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Overview
A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong's prot?g?e and lover--and a poster child for the Cultural Revolution--in this provocative, poignant novel from the bestselling author of A River of Stars.On the eve of China's Cultural Revolution and her sixteenth birthday, Mei dreams of becoming a model revolutionary. When the Communist Party recruits girls for a mysterious duty in the capital, she seizes the opportunity to escape her impoverished village. It is only when Mei arrives at the Chairman?s opulent residence?a forbidden city unto itself?that she learns that the girls? job is to dance with the Party elites. Ambitious and whip-smart, Mei makes a beeline toward the Chairman.Mei gradually separates from the other recruits to become the Chairman?s confidante?and paramour. As he fends off political rivals, Mei faces down schemers from the dance troupe who will stop at nothing to take her place, as well as the Chairman?s imperious wife, who has schemes of her own. When the
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