Some Comments on 5 Books
Book #1
"A Comrade Lost and Found"- A Beijing Story by Jan Wong
The author was an ABC, that means American{actually Canadian} Born Chinese who sometime early in the Cultural Revolution went to China as a young woman full of enthusiasm. Her experiences there over several years seemed close-up and personal, although somewhat "rosy" compared to the accounts of others. During this time she denounced a classmate to the authorities who seemed to her to be too interested in going to America. This classmate soon disappeared into exile somwhere.
Over the years the author's conscience increasingly bothered her, and she went back to China sometime in 2007 or 2008 and accomplished the seemingly impossible. The author found her denounced and exiled classmate and ended up with a relieved conscience.
Book #2
"Leaving India" - My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents by Minal Hajratwala. This book is the story of a Gujarati family that dispersed from India through Fiji, Africa, New Zealand, England, and America. It is a very interesting description of a large part of the world economy and world society of the late 20th and 21st centuries from a Gujarati point of view.
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