

As a child, she was a member of the Little Red Guards and was made to report her favorite teacher, who was accused of being an anti-Maoist, to the authorities. She was nine years old when the Cultural Revolution began. Min was born in Shanghai on January 14, 1957.

Her fiction emphasizes strong female characters, such as Jiang Qing, the wife of chairman Mao Zedong, and Empress Dowager Cixi, the last ruling empress of China. Min has published two memoirs, Red Azalea and The Cooked Seed: A Memoir, and six historical novels. In this Chinese name, the family name is Min.Īnchee Min ( Chinese: 閔安琪 pinyin: Mǐn Ānqí born January 14, 1957, in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese-American author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai.
