Lion's Head, Four Happiness - A Little Sister's Story of Growing Up in China

Informationen zum Autor Xiaomei Martell was born in 1964 in Inner Mongolia, one of China's most remote regions, and spent her formative years there during the Cultural Revolution. After winning a coveted university place at the age of fifteen, she studied first English and then art in Beijing where she also worked after graduation, teaching English, acting as a travel guide and working for art galleries. She came to England in the late 1980s to pursue her studies and has lived in England ever since. Klappentext Lion's Head, Four Happiness is the captivating story of Xiaomei Martell, who was born in one of China's most remote regions just two years before Mao launched the Cultural Revolution. Zusammenfassung Lion's Head, Four Happiness is the captivating story of Xiaomei Martell, who was born in one of China's most remote regions just two years before Mao launched the Cultural Revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Xiaomei Martell, Martell Xiaomei
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.04.2009
• EAN: 9780099532095
• ISBN: 978-0-09-953209-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; China, COOKING / General, Memoirs, Mongolia, Cookery / food & drink etc, Cookery / food and drink, Cookery / food and drink / food writing, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Asian & Asian American, COOKING / Regional & Cultural / Asian