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My Name Is Number 4: A True Story from the Cultural Revolution

by Ting-Xing Ye

A young life shaped by the Cultural Revolution

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A young life shaped by the Cultural Revolution

Ting-Xing Ye’s memoir connects a family’s upheaval to the wider violence of China’s Cultural Revolution. After losing both parents, Ye and her siblings face Red Guard attacks at school and at home; at sixteen, she is sent to a prison farm far from the life she knows. The account centers on the experience of a young person navigating political persecution, family loss, and years of fear. Its personal perspective places historical events alongside the consequences they had for one family, making the memoir both a record of a turbulent period and a story of endurance.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in modern Chinese history through personal accounts.
  • Readers seeking memoirs about family separation, political persecution, and survival.
  • Students exploring the human impact of the Cultural Revolution.

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China’s Cultural RevolutionFamily loss and separationPolitical persecutionEndurance

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Book overview

A powerful and passionate memoir, My Name Is Number 4 is the gripping tale of one girl's life growing up during China's Cultural Revolution.

Number Four will have a difficult life. These are the words that were uttered upon Ting-xing Ye's birth. Soon this prophecy would prove only too true. . . .

Here is the real-life story about the fourth child in a family torn apart by China's Cultural Revolution. After the death of both of her parents, Ting-xing and her siblings endured brutal Red Guard attacks on their schools and even in their home. At the age of sixteen, Ting-xing is exiled to a prison farm far from the world she knows.

How she struggled through years of constant terror while keeping her spirit intact is at the heart of My Name Is Number 4. Haunting and inspiring, Ting-xing Ye's personal account of this horrific period in history is one that no reader will soon forget.

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