Da Chen, the China’s cultural revolution to create the critically acclaimed memoir “Colors of the Mountain,” has died at age 57.
Chen died of lung cancer on Dec. 17, his wife, Dr. Sun-Ling Chen, told in California.His most recent book, “Girl Under a Red Moon,” was published just three months ago.Chen’s breakthrough came in 1999 with the critically acclaimed, best-selling “Colors of the Mountain,” in which he recounted the abuses he and his family suffered during the latter years of the country’s Cultural Revolution.
