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A thousand miles of dreams : the journeys of two Chinese sisters / Sasha Su-Ling Welland.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Welland, Sasha Su-Ling, 1969-
- Series:
- Asian voices (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.)
- Asian voices
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ling, Shuhao, 1904-2006.
- Ling, Shuhao.
- Ling, Shuhua, 1900-1990.
- Ling, Shuhua.
- Physicians--United States--Biography.
- Physicians.
- Sisters.
- United States.
- China.
- Authors, Chinese--Biography.
- Authors, Chinese.
- Artists--China--Biography.
- Artists.
- Immigrants--United States--Biography.
- Immigrants.
- Chinese Americans--Biography.
- Chinese Americans.
- Sisters--China--Biography.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Biography.
- San Francisco (Calif.).
- China--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 369 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers : Distributed by National Book Network, [2006]
- Summary:
- A Thousand Miles of Dreams recounts the evocative and intimate biography of two intensely rivalrous Chinese sisters, a writer and a doctor, whose eventful lives took very different paths in their quest to be independent women. They were Chinese modern girls who sought to forge their own way during a period of social revolution that unsettled relations between men and women, even among nations. Daughters of an imperial scholar-official and a concubine, the two sisters followed professional trajectories unimaginable to their parents' generation.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Departure 1
- Part I Moving House
- 1 Origins 17
- 2 Ambition 25
- 3 Disappointment 37
- 4 Courtyards 47
- 5 Mountains and Walls 63
- Part II Casting Off
- 7 Mist 93
- 8 Amid Ghosts 105
- 9 Into the Streets 117
- 10 Romance 131
- 11 Gatherings 139
- 12 Modern Medicine 151
- 13 Crescent Moon 169
- Part III Seeking a Mooring
- 14 Arrival 189
- 15 Adrift 209
- 16 Souvenirs 233
- 17 The Entangling Net 241
- 18 Rice Porridge 267
- 19 War Letters 275
- 20 An American Home 293
- 21 Wandering 301
- 22 The Chinese House 313
- Epilogue: Return 321.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-351) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0742553132
- OCLC:
- 67239472
- Publisher Number:
- 9780742553132
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