In the aftermath of her father’s death, Wenjie becomes a shell of a person as she struggles to survive in Mao’s regime. Her pessimism grows after she encounters Rachel Carson's Silent Spring ...
Although the death of Mao meant the Revolution's end ... executed before a crowd simply for being a physicist. It was Ye Wenjie's awful experiences during the Revolution that led her to believe ...
something that’s severely frowned upon in communist China during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. His wife denounces him to the crowd, and his daughter, Ye Wenjie (Zine Tseng), watches as the ...
And besides, what has Mao’s Cultural Revolution brought her ... a handsome rich kid hermit with a Johnny Appleseed complex. When Ye Wenjie meets him at his hovel in the clear cut, he’s ...