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A 4 page paper which provides a book review of "The Colors of the Mountain" by Da Chen. No additional sources cited.
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way or another. While some people met the change happily enough and benefited from it, others found nothing but despair in this new direction that China was taking. In the
book "The Colors of the Mountain" by Da Chen we are presented with an autobiography of the author as he tells us of growing up in China in the 20th
century. The following paper provides a book review of this particular book. The Colors of the Mountain Da Chen was born in 1962 in China, in a small
village where life was not necessarily very good for his family. His story is one that will tell about the negative experiences during the revolution. We see this in the
beginning as Da Chen opens his book with the following: "I was born in southern China in 1962, in the tiny town of Yellow Stone. They called it the Year
of Great Starvation. Chairman Mao had a parting of the ways with the Soviets, and now they wanted all their loans repaid or there would be blood, a lot of
it. Mao panicked. He ordered his citizens to cut down on meals and be hungry heroes so he could repay the loans" (Da Chen, 2001; 3). In this we
see from the beginning that this story will not be one about a family who lived well during the changes in China, but a family that will endure hardships. He
tells how his father wanted to name him Han which means drought but that in doing so he may be ensuring a hard life for the child as he may
well spend his life searching and living in desperation. They named him Da which means prosperous. He also speaks of how he was forever scarred by his first year as
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