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Collection: Good Reading
Call Number: 920 Cheng
Author: Li, Zhuqing,
Read by: China-Memoir
Title: Daughters of the flower fragrant garden :
Remainder of title: two sisters separated by China's Civil War /
Summary, etc. note: "Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence. Scions of a once-great southern Chinese family that produced the tutor of the last emperor, Jun and Hong were each other's best friends until, in their twenties, they were separated by chance at the end of the Chinese Civil War. For the next thirty years, while one became a model Communist, the other a model capitalist, they could not even communicate. On Taiwan, Jun married a Nationalist general, established an important trading company, and ultimately emigrated to the United States. On the Communist mainland, Hong built her medical career under a cloud of suspicion about her family and survived two waves of "re-education" before she was acclaimed for her achievements. Zhuqing Li recounts her aunts' experiences with extraordinary sympathy and breathtaking storytelling. A microcosm of women's lives in a time of traumatic change, this is a fascinating, evenhanded account of the recent history of separation between mainland China and Taiwan"--

International Standard Book Number: 9780393541779
: (cloth)
: (epub)
Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9780393541786
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Geographic area code: a-cc-fu
Geographic area code: a-ch---
Classification number: DS797.26.F89
Item number: C445 2022
Edition number: 23/eng/20220217
Classification number: 951.04/20922
Dates associated with a name: 1963-
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: Zhuqing Li.
Title proper/short title: Two sisters separated by China's Civil War
Edition statement: First edition.
Place of publication: New York, NY
Name of publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Date of publication: 2022
: New York :
: W.W. Norton & Company,
: [2022]
Extent: xiii, 353 pages :
Other physical details: illustrations, map ;
Dimensions: 24 cm
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Formatted contents note: Part I The Garden -- Expelled -- Part II Leaving -- The East Is Red -- Adrift -- Beyond the Hospital Walls -- Arriving in Taiwan -- "Continue the Leap" -- Part III Re- education -- "It's Our Home" -- "The Big Muscle" -- Midnight Train to Gaoxiong (Kaohsiong) -- The Past That Refused to Fade -- Part IV Setting Sail -- Stepping- Stone -- "No Tears for Today!" -- Into a New World.
: Provided by publisher.
Source of acquisition: B & T 08/19/2022
Purchase price: $27.95
Personal name: Chen, Wenjun,
Personal name: Chen, Hong
Personal name: Chen family.
Titles and other words associated with a name: (Pseudonym)
Dates associated with a name: 1923-2014.
Subject: Sisters
Subject: Families
Subject: Refugees
Form subdivision: Biography.
Form subdivision: Biography.
General subdivision: History
Chronological subdivision: 20th century.
Geographic subdivision: China
Geographic subdivision: Fuzhou Shi (Fujian Sheng)
Geographic subdivision: China
Geographic subdivision: Fuzhou Shi (Fujian Sheng)
Geographic subdivision: Taiwan
Geographic name: Fuzhou Shi (Fujian Sheng, China)
Geographic name: Fuzhou Shi (Fujian Sheng, China)
Geographic name: Taiwan
Geographic name: China
Form subdivision: Biography.
Form subdivision: Biography.
Form subdivision: Biography.
Form subdivision: Biography.
General subdivision: History
Chronological subdivision: Civil War, 1945-1949
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: 1 shelf copy
: policy default
: xn18 2022-07-18 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver.
: rf26 2022-02-14
: rf06 2022-08-10 (TW) to CMD
: rf26 2022-02-15
: rf26 2022-02-15 (TW situational)

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