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Four sisters of Hofei : a history / Annping Chin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chin, Ann-ping, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--China--Hefei--Biography.
- Women.
- China.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 310 pages : portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, [2002]
- Summary:
- Four Sisters of Hofei is an intimate encounter with Chinese history, told through the collective memory and stories of four sisters born between 1908 and 1914, and with the benefit of the extraordinary knowledge of Yale historian Annping Chin.
- Contents:
- The Change Family xiii
- Chapter 1 The Wedding 1
- Chapter 2 Birth 9
- Chapter 3 Reasons for Moving 17
- Chapter 4 The Hofei Spirit 23
- Chapter 5 Grandmother 38
- Chapter 6 Mother 60
- Chapter 7 Father 73
- Chapter 8 The School 98
- Chapter 9 Nurse-Nannies 111
- Chapter 10 Yuan-ho 125
- Chapter 11 Yun-ho 155
- Chapter 12 Chao-ho 185
- Chapter 13 Ch'ung-ho 242.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-299) and index.
- ISBN:
- 068487377X
- OCLC:
- 49901849
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