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c2007
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Peony is the cloistered daughter of a wealthy family betrothed to a suitor she has never met. In the garden of the Chen family villa, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from the epic opera, Peony Pavillon. Peony attends the production, watching from behind a screen, but catches sight of a handsome man and begins a journey of love and sorrow.
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In [this book], Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings. This moving story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-Lan is must reading to fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during the last century. Though more than eighty years...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate--the first automobile any of them have seen--and a stranger arrives. In...
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Series
Chinese literature today book volume 2
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
x, 409 pages ; 23 cm.
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"Sandalwood death is set during the Boxer Rebellion (1898-1901)-- an anti-imperialist struggle waged by North China's farmers and craftsmen in opposition to Western influence. Against a broad historical canvas, the novel centers on the interplay between its female protagonist, Sun Meiniang, and the three paternal figures in her life"--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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"A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story Daughters are the Ang family's curse. In 1948, civilwar ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai is the eldest of four girls and spends her days looking after...
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