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Red Azalea

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 Red Azalea is an autobiographical novel written in English by Chinese author Anchee Min, telling events starting from her childhood up to the time she emigrated to the US.Anchee (Jade of Peace) is the oldest of four siblings (two sisters, Blooming and Coral, and a brother, Space Conqueror.) Together with their parents, they live in a tiny apartment in Shanghai. Anchee is a dutiful daughter and works hard at school both in the educational and political sense, until at the end of her school education, Anchee sees her name as one of the people who have to go work in a farm/labor camp. Life is hard there, but one of her supervisors Yen and their relationship helps her through it even as she has major doubts when residents of the farm/work camp mentally break one of the girls for the sin of being in a relationship with a man.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Then one day, recruiters for a movie studio come along, searching for a natural beauty to play the main character in their new film (the titular Red Azalea), and Anchee is one of the four chosen. This means she has to leave the farm (leaving her much more fragile sister Blooming to go in her place as one child of each family had to be a farm worker). In the end, she doesn't get the role and is forced to work as a backdrop clerk, until the Producer himself has her play in the scenes they film. All well and good, but then Mao dies, and his wife Jiang Qing, on whose life Red Azalea is based and who was a big supporter of the Producer, is arrested, leaving the project scrapped and the Producer on the run. Soon Anchee leaves China for the US.The rest of Anchee Min's story, after her emigration, is covered in the sequel novel The Cooked Seed.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })
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 Crapsack World: Though it is not immediately apparent as we start with a child's point of view, China is portrayed as one. The Min family is so poor all of the children except Anchee (yes, including the youngest, boy Space Conqueror) have hand-me-down clothes (Anchee mentions she knew to take care of them, and so did her sisters, but after going through 3 kids, the garments were inevitably more patches and tears than clothes so her young brother would be severely bullied for them even though she stood up for him), They are also bordering on famine at the end of each month (resulting in a splurge of food as soon as the paychecks come), This despite the fact that the parents work hard and especially Mrs. Min, the mom, is being driven to sickness at the factory she was assigned to,Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })
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