Anchee Min (simplified Chinese: 闵安琪; traditional Chinese: 閔安琪; pinyin: Mǐn Ānqí; born January 14, 1957) is a Chinese-American author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai. Min has published two memoirs, Red Azalea and The Cooked Seed: A …

Anchee Min is a wild, passionate, and fearless American writer (New York Times). A heart-grabbing novel…An exotic tale filled with historical insight, richly transporting in its details, and compelling to the end (The Oprah Magazine on Empress Orchid).

Anchee Min has 15 books on Goodreads with 137228 ratings. Anchee Min’s most popular book is Empress Orchid (Empress Orchid, #1).

Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957 during the rule of communist leader Mao Zedong. She was chosen to become a leader of the Little Red Guards, a group of elementary school children who supported and believed in Mao's ideas.

Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957. At seventeen she was sent to a labor collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao's Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as a movie actress. She moved to the United States in 1984. Her first memoir, Red Azalea, was an international bestseller, published in twenty countries

Sep 13, 2007 · Author Anchee Min has won acclaim for her memoir of growing up in China under Mao Zedong. She's also written several works of fiction in which she explores the human hunger to survive against extreme social brutality.

Apr 11, 2006 · A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, this is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China. As a child, Min was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective.