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Wild swans : three daughters of China
Record details
- ISBN: 9780743246989
- ISBN: 0743246985
- ISBN: 1439106495
- ISBN: 9781439106495
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (562 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
remote - Edition: First Touchstone edition.
- Publisher: New York : Touchstone, 2003.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: Globalflair Ltd., 1991. Includes Family Tree, Chronology from 1870-1978, and Reading Group Guide. Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | "Three-inch golden lilies": Concubine to a warlord general (1909-1933) -- "Even plain cold water is sweet": My grandmother marries a Manchu doctor (1933-1938) -- "They all say what a happy place Manchukuo is": Life under the Japanese (1938-1945) -- "Slaves who have no country of your own": Ruled by different masters (1945-1947) -- "Daughter for sale for 10 kilos of rice": In battle for a New China (1947-1948) -- "Talking about love": A revolutionary marriage (1948-1949) -- "Going through the Five Mountain Passes": My mother's long march (1949-1950) -- "Returning home robed in embroidered silk": To family and bandits (1949-1951) -- "When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise in heaven": Living with an incorruptible man (1951-1953) -- "Suffering will make you a better communist": My mother falls under suspicion (1953-1956) -- "After the Anti-Rightist campaign no one opens their mouth": China silenced (1958-1962) -- "Capable women can make a meal without food": Famine (1958-1962) -- "Thousand-gold little precious": In a privileged cocoon (1958-1965) -- "Father is close, Mother is close, but neither is as close as Chairman Mao": The cult of Mao (1964-1965) -- "Destroy first, and construction will look after itself": The Cultural Revolution begins (1956-1966) -- "Soar to heaven, and pierce the Earth": Mao's Red Guards (June-August 1966) -- "Do you want our children to become 'Blacks'?": My parents' dilemma (August-October 1966) -- "More than gigantic wonderful news": Pilgrimage to Peking (October-December 1966) -- "Where there is a will to condemn, there is evidence": My parents tormented (December 1966-1967) -- "I will not sell my soul": My father arrested (1967-1968) -- "Giving charcoal in snow": My siblings and my friends (1967-1968) -- "Thought reform through labor": To the edge of the Himalayas (January-June 1969) -- "The more books you read, the more stupid you become": I work as a peasant and a barefoot doctor (June 1969-1971) -- "Please accept my apologies that come a lifetime too late": My parents in camps (1969-1972) -- "The fragrance of sweet wind": A new life with The Electricians' Manual and Six Crises (1972-1973) -- "Sniffing after foreigners' farts and calling them sweet": Learning English in Mao's wake (1972-1974) -- "If this is paradise, what then is hell?": The death of my father (1974-1976) -- Fighting to take wing (1976-1978). |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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