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Chinese-American author

In this Chinese name, the family name is Min.

Anchee Min (simplified Chinese: 闵安琪; traditional Chinese: 閔安琪; pinyin: Mǐn Ānqí; born January 14, ) is a Chinese-American author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai.

Min has published two memoirs, Red Azalea and The Cooked Seed: A Memoir, and six historical novels. 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.

Life

Min was born in Shanghai, China, on January 14, Her parents were both teachers.^[1] She was nine years old when the Cultural Revolution began.^[2] As a child, she was a member of the Little Red Guards and was made to report her favorite teacher, who was accused of being an anti-Maoist, to the authorities.^[2]

When Min was 17, she was sent to a collective farm^[3] near the East China Sea, where she endured h