- study questions
- Map available - large.
- Wikipedia on the book by Dai Sijie
- Wikipedia on author (semi-autobiographical?)
Poster images found at Stefan Landsberger's sight.
- history of Chinese Communist Party
- Ma - our narrator most of the time. Dr.s kid. 18 ?
- Luo - Dentist's kid. 19
- The Little Seamstress (aka: ) age?
- Tailor
- Village chief - ex opium grower.
Phoenix mtn near ChengDu ? Year (?)
Books worth reading.
- Nien Cheng, Life and Death in ShiangHi
- Kristoff and WuDunn, China Wakes
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Questions for group: What did she say after being "deflowered" (how'd she react?)and where/how did Luo get the leaves. What does "like horses" mean?
Did the locals know of this beauty before the city boys show up?
Did anyone else think "Hawthorne" with the Pink Shoes and the new ribbon and getting all heathen in the woods?
What about the theme of romanticism and what it means a) to youth b) to the story? Was the mountain pool a mossy algae laden puddle as the Miller put it, or a limpid pool as one of the boys put it?
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