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A daughter remembers / Li Lien-fung.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Li, Lienfung, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Liang pian ling zhi. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Li, Guoqin.
- Li, Guoqin--Family.
- Businessmen--United States--Biography.
- Businessmen.
- Chinese--United States--Biography.
- Chinese.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (373 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this book, the author recounts her parents' tumultuous long-distance relationship and explores its effects on her and her sister. Spanning a century of the family's history (1860-1960), Li tells of her American Chinese father, Dr Li Kuo Ching, a successful entrepreneur and brilliant engineer who discovered tungsten, a strategic metal at the time. Her mother, Luo Bu Ge, was a simple but smart and inquisitive woman; but being born at the end of the Qing Dynasty, she had to conform to the traditions of the times. As a daughter who always felt abandoned by her father and who has been unable to
- Contents:
- Cover; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789814634922
- 9814634921
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