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Our story : a memoir of love and life in China / Rao Pingru ; translated from the Chinese by Nicky Harman.
Van Pelt Library CT1828.P56 A313 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rao, Pingru, 1922-2020, author, illustrator.
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rao, Pingru, 1922-2020.
- Rao, Pingru.
- Mao, Meitang.
- Married people--China--Biography.
- Married people.
- Social conditions.
- Manners and customs.
- China--Social life and customs--20th century.
- China.
- China--Social conditions--20th century.
- China--Biography.
- Married people--China--Biography--Pictorial works.
- China--Social life and customs--20th century--Pictorial works.
- China--Social conditions--20th century--Pictorial works.
- China--Biography--Pictorial works.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Illustrated works.
- Autobiographies.
- Graphic novels.
- Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 363 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2018]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Chinese.
- Summary:
- "Our Story ... follows [Rao and Meitang Pingru] through the decades, in both poverty and good fortune--looking for work, opening a restaurant, moving cities, mending shoes, raising their children, and being separated for seventeen years by the government when Pingru is sent to a labor camp. As the pair ages, China undergoes extraordinary growth, political turmoil, and cultural change''--Amazon.com.
- Pingru's memoir is a celebration of a marriage that spanned the twentieth century in China. He had known Mao Meitang in childhood; their union lasted almost sixty years. Through the decades they faced both poverty and good fortune, and were separated for seventeen years by the government when Pingru is sent to a labor camp. During their marriage, China underwent extraordinary growth, political turmoil, and cultural change. -- adapted from amazon.com info.
- Contents:
- Our childhood years
- I go to war
- A dab of red lipstick
- Journeying side by side
- Crossroads
- You ask me when I will return
- Now you are gone
- The passing of the seasons.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781101871492
- 1101871490
- OCLC:
- 986816638
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