Katherine
Katherine by Anchee Min
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Rating 7/10
The Back of the Book
'In Katerine we found our lost youth, liberty and heroism. It was in that voice our class began a love affair with her and a love affair with America.'
They were students in Shanghai, brought up to love Mao and to despise emotion; their only passion was communism. Then a new teacher arrived to teach them English vocabulary. Her name was Katherine.
With her scarlet lipstick and radical attigudes Katherine instructs her pupils in more than just a new language; she teaches them a very different world - a world of freedom, frankness and personal discovery. With her unorthodox views, pop records and sexy clothes, the woman from Michigan subtly seduces the minds of the class one by one.
But the authorities are becoming increasingly irritated by her outrageous behaviour. As a foreign guest she was allowed a certain amount of licence, but as Independence Day celebrations get underway it seems she really is about to go too far. The revolution must be stopped. The snake-eyed, foreign devil must pay the price for corrupting China's youth ...
An enjoyable read about the cultural, social & even sexual differences between Katherine & her Chinese pupils whose lives all seem to have been blighted in some way by Mao's Cultural Revolution.
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laura0141
Rating 7/10
The Back of the Book
'In Katerine we found our lost youth, liberty and heroism. It was in that voice our class began a love affair with her and a love affair with America.'
They were students in Shanghai, brought up to love Mao and to despise emotion; their only passion was communism. Then a new teacher arrived to teach them English vocabulary. Her name was Katherine.
With her scarlet lipstick and radical attigudes Katherine instructs her pupils in more than just a new language; she teaches them a very different world - a world of freedom, frankness and personal discovery. With her unorthodox views, pop records and sexy clothes, the woman from Michigan subtly seduces the minds of the class one by one.
But the authorities are becoming increasingly irritated by her outrageous behaviour. As a foreign guest she was allowed a certain amount of licence, but as Independence Day celebrations get underway it seems she really is about to go too far. The revolution must be stopped. The snake-eyed, foreign devil must pay the price for corrupting China's youth ...
An enjoyable read about the cultural, social & even sexual differences between Katherine & her Chinese pupils whose lives all seem to have been blighted in some way by Mao's Cultural Revolution.