A particularly captivating memoir if you love music and history, as I do. I've not read anything dealing specifically with the Cultural Revolution in A particularly captivating memoir if you love music and history, as I do. I've not read anything dealing specifically with the Cultural Revolution in China, so to encounter it through Zhu's lived experience was eye-opening. The level of brainwashing that she and so many others underwent is absolutely terrifying. I can't help but wonder how things might have turned out if not for the providential circumstances that allowed her to keep playing music in the labor camp and to pursue a music career after she was freed. Would she have had the strength to keep going? Would she have ever again found the humanity that was so unfairly taken away from her as a youth? Certainly in many ways, Zhu was saved by the beauty and transcendence that she encountered through music. Borrowing from C.S. Lewis, I pray she someday comes to "look along the beam" of music to the One it reflects.
A worthy Christian book dealing with the arts and creativity. This topic is one that matters a lot to me, and we are blessed to have Peterson's book aA worthy Christian book dealing with the arts and creativity. This topic is one that matters a lot to me, and we are blessed to have Peterson's book as part of the conversation. I resonated with much of it. ...more
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