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100	1		_aYang, Rae, _d1950- _eauthor. _9336942
245	1	0	_aSpider eaters : _ba memoir / _cRae Yang.
264		1	_aBerkeley : _bUniversity of California Press, _c[1997]
264		4	_c©1997
300			_axi, 285 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
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520			_aEarlier this century the Chinese writer Lu Xun said that some of our ancestors must have bravely attempted to eat crabs so that we would learn they were edible. Trials with spiders were not so enjoyable. Our ancestors suffered their bitter taste and spared us their poison. Rae Yang, a daughter of privilege, became a spider eater at age fifteen, when she enthusiastically joined the Red Guards in Beijing. By seventeen, she volunteered to work on a pig farm and thus began to live at the bottom of Chinese society. With stunning honesty and a lively, sly humor, the complex and likable Yang incorporates the legends, folklore, and local customs of China to evoke the political and moral crises that the revolution brought upon her over three decades, from 1950 to 1980. Unique to memoirists of this genre, Yang expresses often-overlooked psychological nuances and, with admirable candor, charts her own path as both victim and victimizer.
520	8		_aThrough this gifted author's compelling meditation, readers will, with Yang, grapple with the human scale of national conflicts - and the painful lessons learned by spider eaters.
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600	0	0	_aYang family.
600	1	0	_aYang, Rae, _d1950- _9336942
600	1	0	_aYang, Rae.
651		0	_aBeijing (China) _xBiography.
651		0	_aChina _xHistory _yCultural Revolution, 1966-1976 _vPersonal narratives _9500397
651		0	_aBeijing (China) _vBiography _9782518
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/ucal051/96031622.html
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