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A unique modern memoir of growing up in rural China Colours of the Mountain is a powerful and moving story of supreme determination and extraordinary faith against the most impossible odds. Da Chen was born in 1962 in a town over 50 hours’ train journey from Beijing. Persecuted because of his family’s landlord status Da was an easy target for the farmer-teachers and bullying peasant boys. Whilst his older brother and sisters were forced to work in the fields Da tired of the chaotic schooling of the Cultural Revolution and found solace with a band of good-time thugs. Following the death of Mao an academic meritocracy was reintroduced. Da determined to escape Ch’ing Mountain where he ran around barefoot and there was no electricity and no future. Together with his brother Jin who had been working the land since boyhood he began to study day and night. His determination is staggering and inspiring. In 1978 at the age of sixteen Da Chen took a bus and a train for the first time in his life and travelled to Beijing to the best English language institute in China. A book about friendships prejudice familial love and academic striving and of one man’s escape from hunger poverty and ignorance Colours of the Mountain is an inspiring and eloquently recounted memoir.
