Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Red Azalea

Red Azalea is a wonderfully written book by Anchee Min. Her narrative is rich in description as it takes the reader into her world during Mao's reign. This was the first book I read about that period in China where we see how people had to camouflage their emotions in such a hard and cruel world. As a child growing up in the 70's, the rhetoric used scared everyone to think that the people in China were robots who didn't feel. I thought the Chinese lacked human emotion because I did not realize just how oppressive the government was on its people.Reading Anchee Min's book revealed that under the blanket of fear were real human emotions alive and bubbling during such a repressive time. I highly recommend this book to everyone in order to understand the human element of the Chinese during the last years of the cultural revolution!