Revolution is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine"Each day, my list of questions grew. But I had no one to ask. Father no longer told me, 'Smart children always ask questions.' Instead, now he said, 'Children don't have to know everything.'" (Chang Compestine, 2007, p. 76).
Ling lives in Wuhan, China at a time when asking questions, wearing her hair long, conversing in English, or having friends that live in America are all considered suspect. She lives at the time of the Cultural Revolution in China, where enemies of the state are rooted out, imprisoned, sent to hard-labor camps, and re-educated in the ways of the common people - the true revolutionaries. As the revolutionary fervor begins to hit closer to home, when her father is taken away, and her family friends begin turning against her "bourgeouis" ways, Ling begins to dream of a different life - with family, bright-colored fabrics, and a past innocence that has since escaped her.
Ling lives in Wuhan, China at a time when asking questions, wearing her hair long, conversing in English, or having friends that live in America are all considered suspect. She lives at the time of the Cultural Revolution in China, where enemies of the state are rooted out, imprisoned, sent to hard-labor camps, and re-educated in the ways of the common people - the true revolutionaries. As the revolutionary fervor begins to hit closer to home, when her father is taken away, and her family friends begin turning against her "bourgeouis" ways, Ling begins to dream of a different life - with family, bright-colored fabrics, and a past innocence that has since escaped her.
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