Little Leap Forward: A Boy in Beijing (World Tales Advanced Readers)

A sensitively written, real-life story about a boy called Little Leap Forward, growing up in the hutongs of Beijing in the 1960s, at the time of the Cultural Revolution. Little Leap Forward offers children an intimate and immediate account of a child s experiences as Mao Tse Tung s Great Leap Forward policy tightens its grips on China.