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Zhu Xiao-Mei was a child prodigy on the piano, taught by her mother, and she immersed herself in the classical masters. With the onset of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, life as she knew it ended abruptly. This book tells Zhu's story through her difficult early years, longing for the comfort of playing piano, through to her emigration to France, where she was able to fully embrace her passion.
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The secret piano: from Mao's labor camps to Bach's Goldberg variations
2012, AmazonCrossing
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Table of Contents
China. The solemn hour
Mother's library
First teacher
Downfall
From Mozart to Mao
This piano was acquired by exploiting the people
A bonfire of Bach
A revolutionary
Departures
Camp 4619
A piglet and five kittens
A friend arrives
The "Villa Medici"
From Mao to Mozart
A seagull in Hong Kong
The West. The land of freedom
A western master
With Oliver
An act of love
The power of emptiness
Dreaming of Paris
Starting over
The Goldberg variations
A haven
The tree of Mama Zheng
Life starts at forty
A wounded life
Music, water, and life
Wisdom and non-being
Return
Aria.
Edition Notes
First published in 2007 by Editions Robert Laffont as La Rivière et son secret.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-314).