At this point, Min finds a role model to follow and stays on track with Maoism. She was assigned to work there and has little hope of escaping her life of manual labor. She is moved to a place called Red Fire Farm, a labor camp. Part two tells of her life on a farm outside of Shanghai with other teenagers. Her first conflict with this system comes when a favorite teacher is put on trial for espionage and the young Anchee Min is expected to testify against her. She believes wholeheartedly in Mao's Communism, and is an outstanding student. In part one, Min tells the story of her childhood in Shanghai under the rule of Mao Zedong during the 1960s. The autobiography deals with themes of ideology and gender and sexual psychology. For example, Min's first name, Anchee, means Jade of Peace, and her siblings' names are Blooming, Coral, and Space Conqueror. The names of the characters were translated into English instead of being spelled phonetically. It was written during the first eight years she spent in the United States, from 1984 to 1992, and tells the story of her personal experience during the Cultural Revolution. Red Azalea is a memoir of Chinese American writer Anchee Min (b.
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