You are cordially invited to join us for
A talk by Wenguang Huang,author of "The Little
Red Guard"
On Sunday, July 22, 2012, 2 p.m.
At Pacific Asia Museum, 46 North Los Robles Ave., Pasadena,
91101.
Please call 626-449-2742 and mention Visual Artists Guild for
free admission to the Museum
Or email to alau@visual-artists-guild.org
for reservation
Mr. Huang, a journalist, was a graduate student of
journalism in 1989 when he participated in the student
protest in Shanghai. He went to Beijing and returned to
mobilize residents to support the movement when the
crackdown took place. He has since left China and has
written extensively about human rights issues for the New
York Times, the Asian Wall Street Journal, the Christian
Science Monitor and Chicago Tribune. He has translated many
articles and books by Liu Xiaobo, Liao Yiwu and Wei
Jingsheng.
In book reviews, Mr. Huang's book has been compared to
William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying" by the Chicago Tribune
and as echoes of J.D. Salinger by the Wall Street Journal.
From Chicago Tribune: "At the age of 10, I slept next to a
coffin that Father had made for Grandma." So begins The
Little Red Guard, a gripping, lyrical memoir by
Wenguang Huang, a Chicago-based journalist and writer. As
the keeper of his grandmother's shou mu, or longevity
wood, a Chinese euphemism for coffin, Huang sees
through his prepubescent eyes a family saga unfolding
against the backdrop of the upheavals and undulations of
20th century China."
From Wall Street Journal: "If you are
looking for a book that brings a corner of modern China alive—a
book filled with humor, family squabbles and ordinary life in a
large city in a one-party state—look no further than The
Little Red Guard."