Aili Gao was born the year Chairman Mao initiated the Cultural Revolution. In her early years, she lived with her grandmother in a remote seaside town, and after that, she was brought up in Beijing. She trained as a traditional Chinese artist. She also produced educational TV programs, provided scripts for animation series, and wrote stories for children. Her husband is English, and since 2000 she has lived in the UK.
So many accounts of the years of the Chinese Cultural Revolution focus on its violence and suffering. In this unusual story, Aili describes a happy early childhood in a community whose way of life, with its beliefs and traditions, had been cultivated through centuries. With equal innocence she is ab...
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