Zhai Zhenhua (, born 1951) is a Chinese autobiographical writer known for her memoir ''Red Flower of China'', which detailed her teenage participation in Mao's

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goal ...

Life

Zhai Zhenhua joined the

Red Guard Red Guards () were a mass student-led paramilitary social movement mobilized and guided by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 through 1967, during the first phase of the Cultural Revolution, which he had instituted.Teiwes According to a Red Guard le ...

and as a fifteen-year-old participated in the violence of the

. She was later herself purged, but rehabilitated after working on the land and in a factory. She eventually emigrated to

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

, where she wrote her autobiography.

Works

* ''Red Flower of China'', New York: Soho, 1993.

References

1951 births Living people Chinese autobiographers Chinese women writers Women autobiographers Chinese emigrants to Canada Red Guards {{China-writer-stub