Xiaomei Chen is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Chinese and Comparative Literature from University of California at Davis. She is an author and editor of numerous books and essays on modern Chinese theater, performance culture, and propaganda studies. She lives in Woodland, California.
David Blake entertains us with the babysitter who somehow finds the ‘special’ brownies, while Dan Rott’s service station uniform seems to change size. Xiaomei Chen’s story begins when her mother was a girl at the beginning of the cultural revolution in China.
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