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| Author | : Cheng Nien |
| Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 561 |
| Release | : 2010-12-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0802145167 |
A woman who spent more than six years in solitary confinement during Communist China's Cultural Revolution discusses her time in prison. Reissue. A New York Times Best Book of the Year.
| Author | : Ning Lao T'ai-t'ai |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 1967 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780804706063 |
Within the common destiny is the individual destiny. So it is that through the telling of one Chinese peasant woman's life, a vivid vision of Chinese history and culture is illuminated. Over the course of two years, Ida Pruitt--a bicultural social worker, writer, and contributor to Sino-American understanding--visited with Ning Lao T'ai-ta'i, three times a week for breakfast. These meetings, originally intended to elucidate for Pruitt traditional Chinese family customs of which Lao T'ai-t'ai possessed some insight, became the foundation for an enduring friendship. As Lao T'ai-t'ai described the cultural customs of her family, and of the broader community of which they were a part, she invoked episodes from her own personal history to illustrate these customs, until eventually the whole of her life lay open before her new confidante. Pruitt documented this story, casting light not only onto Lao T'ai-t'ai's own biography, but onto the character of life for the common man of China, writ large. The final product is a portrayal of China that is "vividly and humanly revealed."
| Author | : Jung Chang |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 592 |
| Release | : 2008-06-20 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1439106495 |
The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.
| Author | : Buwei Yang Chao |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-05 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781958425831 |
Buwei Yang Chao (1889-1981) was a Chinese-American physician and writer. She was one of the first women to practice Western medicine in China. Assisted by her husband (linguist Yuenren Chao), she wrote this autobiography in 1947. A truly unique individual, especially considering the time/place of her birth and her subsequent life events, this is an uplifting story of accomplishment and progress in the early part of the 20th century. Buwei Yang Chao challenged the traditions and limits of Chinese society by pursuing higher education and becoming a physician, opening a Western medicine hospital in China. She (and her family) survived the Chinese revolution and as refugees helped many others escape persecution. Challenging tradition even more so by removing herself from an arranged marriage and marrying her husband Yuenren, she managed to raise a family, travel extensively, and become a successful writer. Buwei with the help of her daughter Rulan published the book, How to Cook and Eat in Chinese in 1945 with subsequent editions up till 1968. Autobiography of a Chinese Woman is an exciting and thoughtful memoir that covers an historically significant time period from the view of a unique individual.
| Author | : Bingying Xie |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780231122504 |
Xie struggled against the constraints of Chinese society in the early twentieth century and went on to become a soldier, a writer and a feminist.
| Author | : Jade Snow Wong |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2019-11-21 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0295745916 |
Jade Snow Wong’s autobiography portrays her coming-of-age in San Francisco's Chinatown, offering a rich depiction of her immigrant family and her strict upbringing, as well as her rebellion against family and societal expectations for a Chinese woman. Originally published in 1950, Fifth Chinese Daughter was one of the most widely read works by an Asian American author in the twentieth century. The US State Department even sent its charismatic young author on a four-month speaking tour throughout Asia. Cited as an influence by prominent Chinese American writers such as Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston, Fifth Chinese Daughter is a foundational work in Asian American literature. It was written at a time when few portraits of Asian American life were available, and no similar works were as popular and broadly appealing. This new edition includes the original illustrations by Kathryn Uhl and features an introduction by Leslie Bow, who critically examines the changing reception and enduring legacy of the book and offers insight into Wong’s life as an artist and an ambassador of Chinese American culture.
| Author | : Kay Ann Johnson |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2009-02-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0226401944 |
Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership. She contends that, although the Chinese Communist Party has always ostensibly favored women's rights and family reform, it has rarely pushed for such reforms. In reality, its policies often have reinforced the traditional role of women to further the Party's predominant economic and military aims. Johnson's primary focus is on reforms of marriage and family because traditional marriage, family, and kinship practices have had the greatest influence in defining and shaping women's place in Chinese society. Conversant with current theory in political science, anthropology, and Marxist and feminist analysis, Johnson writes with clarity and discernment free of dogma. Her discussions of family reform ultimately provide insights into the Chinese government's concern with decreasing the national birth rate, which has become a top priority. Johnson's predictions of a coming crisis in population control are borne out by the recent increase in female infanticide and the government abortion campaign.
| Author | : Janet Lim |
| Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2017-07-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1787207218 |
Originally published in 1958, this is the true story of China-born Janet Lim, who was sold into slavery as a young girl in 1930’s Singapore. When Singapore falls to the Japanese in 1942, she escapes by ship, but when it is bombed and sinks, Janet floats at sea for days close to death. Rescued by fishermen, then captured by the Japanese, she narrowly escapes sexual-imprisonment as a comfort woman and is tortured. An inspirational autobiography of a true heroine.
| Author | : Shirley Mow |
| Publisher | : The Feminist Press at CUNY |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2004-04-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781558614659 |
These 21 dynamic articles by Chinese women scholars explore the limitations on women's lives in premodern China, detail their involvement in the great political movements of the 20th century and examine how new laws have improved women's status, yet have left them open to exploitation as China enters the global economy. With statistics and reports otherwise unavailable, they give a refreshing outlook on China's women that is breathtaking both for the problems it confronts and for the spirit of struggle it embodies.
| Author | : Adeline Yen Mah |
| Publisher | : Laurel Leaf |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2009-05-06 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0307482804 |
More than 800,000 copies in print! From the author of critically acclaimed and bestselling memoir Falling Leaves, this is a poignant and moving true account of her childhood, growing up as an unloved daughter in 1940s China. A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their roots." In her own courageous voice, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph in the face of despair. Adeline's affluent, powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother dies giving birth to her, and life does not get any easier when her father remarries. Adeline and her siblings are subjected to the disdain of her stepmother, while her stepbrother and stepsister are spoiled with gifts and attention. Although Adeline wins prizes at school, they are not enough to compensate for what she really yearns for -- the love and understanding of her family. Like the classic Cinderella story, this powerful memoir is a moving story of resilience and hope. Includes an Author's Note, a 6-page photo insert, a historical note, and the Chinese text of the original Chinese Cinderella. A PW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AN ALA-YALSA BEST BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTS “One of the most inspiring books I have ever read.” –The Guardian
