Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China Audiobook (Free)

A deeply personal and shocking look at how China is coming to terms using its conflicted recent simply because it emerges into a modern, cutting-edge superpower.

Through the stories of three generations of women in her family, Karoline Kan, a former NY Times reporter based in Beijing, unveils how they navigated their way within a country beset by poverty and often-violent political unrest. As the Kans move from noiseless villages to packed towns and through the metropolitan streets of Beijing in search of a about Under Crimson Skies: Three Years of Life, Loss, and Wish in China better way of life, they are pressured to confront the past and break the stores of tradition, specifically those pressured on women.

Raw and revealing, Karoline Kan presents gripping stories of her grandmother, who struggled to make a method for her family members during the Great Famine; of her mother, who defied the One-Child Policy by giving delivery to Karoline; of her cousin, a shoe factory worker scraping by on 6 yuan (88 cents) each hour; and of herself, as an ambitious millennial striving to find a job–and true love–during a period rife with bewildering cultural change.

Under Red Skies is an engaging eyewitness account and Karoline’s goal to understand the rapidly evolving, shifting sands of China. It is the first English-language memoir from a Chinese language millennial to become published in America, and a fascinating portrait of the otherwise-hidden world, written through the perspective of these who live there.