Photos from Born American 
   
 

Sasha with her aunt, at age 3.

   Sasha's grandma in the early 1960s.
   
  Sasha's family in Guangzhou in 1960, before the Cultural Revolution.    Members of Sasha's study group, ca. 1975. She wasn't in this picture.
   
  With friends at Peking University in 1987, just before she left for the United States.   Sasha's graduation from Harvard University with Yunxiang Yan in 1995.
   
  Washington, DC, 2009.  

Campaigning in Virginia, 2009.








What makes this book different from other Cultural Revolution memoirs is that the author wrote the stories from the perspective of becoming an American. Embracing American culture, and speaking as one of a handful of scholars who can travel back and forth intellectually between Eastern and Western culture, the author provides American readers with comprehensible narratives about a mysterious, yet not-so-remote, society.