{"product_id":"the-little-red-guard-a-family-memoir-paperback","title":"The Little Red Guard: A Family Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWenguang Huang\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Best of 2012 pick\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Delightful . . . a book that brings a corner of modern China alive.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Wenguang Huang was nine years old, his grandmother became obsessed with her own death. Fearing cremation, she extracted from her family the promise to bury her after she died. This was in Xian, a city in central China, in the 1970s, when a national ban on all traditional Chinese practices, including burials, was strictly enforced. But Huang's grandmother was persistent, and two years later, his father built her a coffin. He also appointed his older son, Wenguang, as coffin keeper, a distinction that meant, among other things, sleeping next to the coffin at night. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the next fifteen years, the whole family was consumed with planning Grandma's burial, a regular source of friction and contention, with the constant risk of being caught by the authorities. Many years after her death, the family's memories of her coffin still loom large. Huang, now living and working in America, has come to realize how much the concern over the coffin has affected his upbringing and shaped the lives of everyone in the family. Lyrical and poignant, funny and heartrending, \u003ci\u003eThe Little Red Guard\u003c\/i\u003e is the powerful tale of an ordinary family finding their way through turbulence and transition.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWenguang Huang\u003c\/b\u003e, who grew up in northern China, is a Chicago-based writer and translator. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eAsia Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the English translator of Liao Yiwu's \u003ci\u003eThe Corpse Walker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGod is Red\u003c\/i\u003e and Yang Xianhui's \u003ci\u003eWoman from Shanghai.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 02, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769387548960,"sku":"9781594486555","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/eddf4d31750417e0dba9c1d35482680c.webp?v=1780346781","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-little-red-guard-a-family-memoir-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}