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After long afternoons spent with her great-aunt Yu-i, Pang-Mei, a first-generation Chinese-American, paints this unforgettable saga of a woman, born in Shanghai at the turn of the century to a well-to-do family, who continually defied the expectations of her class and culture. 'In China, a woman is nothing,' began Yu-i over tea and dumplings. 'This is the first lesson I want to give so that you will understand.' Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last Emperor and the Communist Revolution, Yu-i led a life marked by a series of rebellions that changed the course of her life, including the first and most lasting: her refusal to have her feet bound. And as Yu-i confides her innermost dreams and demons to her great-niece in this dual memoir, the deeply textured portrait of a woman's life in China is blended with the very Western story of a young woman's search for identity and belonging.
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Bound Feet & Western Dress, Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1997
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
- Verlag
- Bantam Doubleday Dell
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1997
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 215
- ISBN10
- 0553506501
- ISBN13
- 9780553506501
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Historisches Thema, Geschichte, Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Autobiografien & Memoiren, Asien, China, Asiatische Belletristik
- Bewertung
- 3,95 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- After long afternoons spent with her great-aunt Yu-i, Pang-Mei, a first-generation Chinese-American, paints this unforgettable saga of a woman, born in Shanghai at the turn of the century to a well-to-do family, who continually defied the expectations of her class and culture. 'In China, a woman is nothing,' began Yu-i over tea and dumplings. 'This is the first lesson I want to give so that you will understand.' Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last Emperor and the Communist Revolution, Yu-i led a life marked by a series of rebellions that changed the course of her life, including the first and most lasting: her refusal to have her feet bound. And as Yu-i confides her innermost dreams and demons to her great-niece in this dual memoir, the deeply textured portrait of a woman's life in China is blended with the very Western story of a young woman's search for identity and belonging.