Daughter of the River

Zusammenfassung Daughter of the River is a memoir of China unlike any other. Born during the Great Famine of the early 1960s and raised in the slums of Chongqing! Hong Ying was constantly aware of hunger and the sacrifices required to survive. As she neared her eighteenth birthday! she became determined to unravel the secrets that left her an outsider in her own family. At the same time! a history teacher at her school began to awaken her sense of justice and her emerging womanhood. Hong Ying's wrenching coming-of-age would teach her the price of taking a stand and show her the toll of totalitarianism! poverty! and estrangement on her family. With raw intensity and fearless honesty! Daughter of the River follows China's trajectory through one woman's life! from the Great Famine through the Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square.

Product details

• Authors: Howard Goldblatt, Ying Hong, Ying, Hong Ying, Ying Hong
• Assisted by: Howard Goldblatt (Translation)
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2000
• EAN: 9780802136602
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-3660-2
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Biography: historical, political and military, Literature: history and criticism, Political leaders and leadership, Relating to specific and significant cultural interests, CULTURAL HERITAGE / Asian / Chinese