Radical: A Life of My Own 六四 and the secrets of the

and the secrets of the Great Wall of China

1948年，孔令平第一次看到他的母親和父親激烈爭吵：“父親鑒於局勢的變化，曾要母親帶著我和弟弟、外婆去臺灣，而母親卻堅決反對去臺灣，母親認為她的當年的同窗和老師曾在重慶一同參加抗日的活動。而這些同窗多半都去了延安，已經成為中共所依靠的各級幹部，她完全可以在中共佔領全國以後，重新找到安靜的生活。”爭吵的結果是：這個家就留在大陸了。

── 1790年1月8日，喬治．華盛頓（George Washington）在國會的首次年度演說

and even an old zoo where the family’s pygmy hippopotamus resides

不要問我的故鄉，國家地名沒有意義，我跟你們一樣是人，我國家的人也跟你們一樣。

Radical: A Life of My Own 六四 and the secrets of theXiaolu Guo has been lauded as a voice . . . speaking with full freedom (Wall Street Journal), which has made her one of the most acclaimed Chinese born writers of her generation. She is the National Book Critics Circle Award winning author of Nine Continents and a Granta Best Young British Novelist. Her new memoir, Radical, is an exploration of a city, an electrically honest rendering of what it means to be an outsider, and the sojourn that upended