almost 700 pages, yet most exciting

A despite their length usually exciting to read biography of the author, her mother and her grandmother from China of the last emperor to the 70s of the last century.
The story of the grandmother in the imperial period is treated unfortunately the brief test, but naturally, the author of even less information.
With hundreds of pages and view of the content to read exhausting device before the time and during the Cultural Revolution. Too often humiliation and ill-treatment are described under various pretexts - however they found probably too often held.
Nevertheless, one gets a very good insight into the recent Chinese history. And with that understanding, the people who act sometimes closed and inscrutable.