Summary: Born in Shanghai, Anchee Min grew up during Mao's Cultural Revolution. As a teenager she was sent to a labor collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao recruited her to work in propaganda films as an actress. In 1984, at the age of twenty-seven, she moved to the United States and learned to speak English. In 1992, Anchee published her first book, Red Azalea, which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and translated into 32 languages. Author of five other best-selling books (including Becoming Madame Mao and Empress Orchid), Anchee's newest work, Pearl of China is the powerful story of the friendship of a lifetime, based on the life of Pearl S. Buck.
