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Anchee Min


Born
in Shanghai, China
January 14, 1957

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Genre
Memoir, Historical Fiction


Anchee Min (Chinese: 閔安琪) is a memoirist and novelist.

At age seventeen, she was sent to a labor collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao's Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as a movie actress. She moved to the United States in 1984 to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she obtained both B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees. Her first memoir, Red Azalea , was an international bestseller, published in twenty countries. ...more

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Red Azalea: A Memoir
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Becoming Madame Mao
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The Cooked Seed: A Memoir
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“If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.”
― Anchee Min, Red Azalea: A Memoir
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“The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree”
― Anchee Min, Empress Orchid
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“lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.”
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