Colours Of The Mountain

Da Chen

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Arrow Books Ltd
01 September 2000

Autobiography: general; Autobiography: historical, political & military; History; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions; Marxism & Communism

A unique modern memoir of growing up in rural China in the '60s and '70s, Colours of the Mountain is a powerful and moving story of supreme determination and extraordinary faith against the most impossible odds.

A unique modern memoir of growing up in rural China, Colours of the Mountain is a powerful and moving story of supreme determination and extraordinary faith against the most impossible odds. Da Chen was born in 1962 in a town over 50 hours' train journey from Beijing. Persecuted because of his family's landlord status, Da was an easy target for the farmer-teachers and bullying peasant boys. Whilst his older brother and sisters were forced to work in the fields, Da tired of the chaotic schooling of the Cultural Revolution and found solace with a band of good-time thugs. Following the death of Mao, an academic meritocracy was reintroduced. Da determined to escape Ch'ing Mountain, where he ran around barefoot and there was no electricity and no future. Together with his brother Jin, who had been working the land since boyhood, he began to study day and night. His determination is staggering and inspiring. In 1978, at the age of sixteen, Da Chen took a bus and a train for the first time in his life and travelled to Beijing, to the best English language institute in China. A book about friendships, prejudice, familial love and academic striving, and of one man's escape from hunger, poverty and ignorance, Colours of the Mountain is an inspiring and eloquently recounted memoir.

By: Da Chen
Imprint: Arrow Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 235g
ISBN: 9780099298007
ISBN 10: 0099298007
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 September 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Da Chen is the author of Colours of the Mountain and China's Son. An accomplished flautist and brush calligrapher, he lives with his wife and two children in New York's Hudson Valley.

Reviews for Colours Of The Mountain

Chen was born into the last throes of China's Cultural Revolution. Despised and marginalized by virtue of their former landlord status, Chen's family sought to survive a rigidly oppressive system; their youngest son cherishing an idealistic hope for a more prosperous future. After countless overwhelming setbacks, at the age of 14 Chen realized that education held the key to his emancipation and two years later he booked a train for the first time, bound for college life in Beijing. From extreme poverty to his current position as a New York lawyer, Chen's story is a richly compelling one, beautifully written. (Kirkus UK)