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Half a rotten apple: Growing up in 70s China

Writer Xiaolu Guo was a "wild street kid" living with her grandparents in a rural village by the East China Sea - until a visit from a group of strangers changed her life.

Writer Xiaolu Guo grew up in 1970s China, in a tiny village by the East China Sea. She'd been left there to live with her grandparents, and didn't know where her parents were. When they returned to collect her age seven, it began a lifetime of change - and a reckoning with China's history, from the feudal era to the Cultural Revolution.

(Photo: Xiaolu Guo. Credit: Xiaolu Guo)

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Thu 22 Oct 2020 02:06GMT

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