Anchee Min
Anchee Min (born Jan 14, 1957) is a Chinese-American author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai. At seventeen she was sent to a labour collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao's Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as a movie actress
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Anchee Min (born Jan 14, 1957) is a Chinese-American author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai. At seventeen she was sent to a labour 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. Her memoir, Red Azalea, was an international bestseller with rights sold in twenty countries. Her novels, Becoming Madame Mao, Katherine and Wild Ginger were published to wonderful reviews and impressive foreign sales. Her fiction emphasizes strong female characters, such as Jiang Qing, the wife of chairman Mao Zedong and Empress Dowager Cixi, the last ruling empress of China.
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