Ange Zhang

Presents an autobiographical account in both narrative and the drawings of artist Ange Zhang who witnessed the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and, like his father, found himself at odds with the ideology of Mao. In 1966 Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution swept through China and transformed the life of Beijing teenager Ange Zhang. Ange longed to join the Red Guard with his classmates, but was denied membership after his father, a famous writer,...