Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden - Zhuqing Li

Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden

Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
368 Seiten
2022
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-54177-9 (ISBN)
28,80 inkl. MwSt
Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation and their own independence
Scions of a once-great southern Chinese family that produced the tutor of the last emperor, Jun and Hong were each other’s best friends until, in their twenties, they were separated by chance at the end of the Chinese Civil War. For the next thirty years, while one became a model Communist, the other a model capitalist, they could not even communicate.

On Taiwan, Jun married a Nationalist general, established an important trading company, and ultimately emigrated to the United States. On the Communist mainland, Hong built her medical career under a cloud of suspicion about her family and survived two waves of “re-education” before she was acclaimed for her achievements.

Zhuqing Li recounts her aunts’ experiences with extraordinary sympathy and breathtaking storytelling. A microcosm of women’s lives in a time of traumatic change, this is a fascinating, evenhanded account of the recent history of separation between mainland China and Taiwan.

Zhuqing Li is a professor of East Asian Studies at Brown University and the author of four scholarly books on Chinese linguistics. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 239 mm
Gewicht 525 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-393-54177-0 / 0393541770
ISBN-13 978-0-393-54177-9 / 9780393541779
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