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Original Title:	Under the Hawthorn Tree ISBN13 9780887842917
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Under the Hawthorn Tree

Ai Mi

Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

Rating: 3.58 | 1632 Users | 211 Reviews

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Title	:	Under the Hawthorn Tree
Author	:	Ai Mi
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	February 14th 2012 by House of Anansi Press (first published August 2007)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Romance. Cultural. China

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Yichang municipality, Hubei province, China, early 1970s. High-school student Jingqiu is one of many educated urban youth sent to the countryside to be "re-educated" under a dictate from Chairman Mao. Jing's father is a political prisoner somewhere in China, and her mother, a former teacher branded as a "capitalist," is now reduced to menial work to support Jing and her two younger siblings.


When Jing arrives with a group at Xiping village in the Yangtze River's Three Gorges region, she meets geology student Jianxin, nicknamed "Old Three," who is the son of a high-ranking military officer, but whose mother committed suicide after being branded a "rightist." Despite their disparate social backgrounds and a political atmosphere that forbids the relationship, Jingqiu and Jianxin fall desperately in love. But their budding romance is cut short by fate...


A sensitive and searing love story, Under the Hawthorn Tree is sure to become an instant classic.

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Under the Hawthorn Tree, by Ai Mi, started off with promise. A young Chinese girl named Jingqui, naive but smart, is sent off into the villages to document life in order to write more accurate history textbooks. Set in China in the 1970's the book is heavily rooted in the cultural revolution. Interest is peaked. A tale is told of a hawthorn tree with flowers dyed red from the blood of soldiers. The backdrop is set with an old folktale of a maiden torn between two loves. I wasn't 100% which way

This novel was frustrating. Although it offered some cultural and historical insight regarding China's Cultural Revolution, the story was so linear from cover to cover with each chapter being "ground hog day". The 2 main characters were portrayed as strong, capable and intelligent yet their relationship was immature and naive...resulting in a sappy romance. The ending was entirely predictable and the writing flip-flopped between first and third person. Not sure if the latter was a translation

This is a remarkable book for a number of reasons.First, it was published on a website to begin -- and has apparently reached millions of readers in China. So to read it is to read a very popular saga in China and obtain some insight into the perspectives that contemporary Chinese readers themselves find fascinating. The focus on an ill-fated but very romantic love affair in the context of the Cultural Revolution surely tells us something about China romanticizing its past, and seeing a time

The first half of the book broke my heart, made me smile, charmed me and, at one point, gave me an anxiety attack. The second half (chapter twenty-three) gave me post-traumatic flashbacks, so i skipped a lot of pages. I flipped back and forth so I could piece together what happened. The way a major plot point happened was underwhelming. I wanted drrraaaama, aaaction, and to completely bawl. Multiple vowels added for emphasis. Instead, I sighed in disappointment and actually at one point, rolled

Ok I am really happy I read the reviews because I think everyone who mid rated this book had the same issues and loves that I did with this book.Starting with what I loved. The setting was amazing!! This book has peaked my interest in Chinese history in a way that no textbook ever could. Hearing of the oppression and unfairness that occurs in a post capitalist/ communist society was very interesting and something I was really trying to help explain the actions of the characters. And now we have

The ending is too depressing, I couldn't accept , not going to read it again. It affected my moods that I cannot get into conversations with people.I picked it up after seeing the movie and some movie reviewers said the book has more details urging me to read. I read to understand the older generations mindset in my family, it's something I wanted to understand about the cultural revolution -- a simple version. I tried understanding to read about cultural revolution when I was a teenager but

I didn't actually finish this book - something that happens very rarely to me. However, I picked it up because I had thought it would be an interesting look at the difficulty of traversing "class" in what was supposed to be a society without class during China's Cultural Revolution. What I ended up reading amounted to a translation of a Christian Harlequin romance. The style was that of the old Jeanette Oke Christian romances with a saccharine sweet, gullible female character.It was first