Gail Pellett and Revolution

year: Forbidden Fruit is Gail Pellett raw and highly personal memoir of the year, mid-1980 to mid-1981, when she lived in Beijing, according to Rabble. It examines a place in time -- China, just emerging from its traumatic, decade-long Cultural Revolution -- that has largely disappeared. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. Still, the legacy of this shattering event continues to reverberate globally, affirmed by this year many reflections on the Cultural Revolution, 50 years after it began. Pellett was 37 in 1980, a Canadian radio documentarian who had moved to the United States at 21 and was shaped by the New Left and feminist politics of the 1960s and 1970s there. Forbidden Fruit explores a small part of this event immediate aftermath from the eyewitness perspective of a western woman intellectual, cultural and erotic encounter with a profoundly different world. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.