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- Publisher: Penguin (1944)
- Language English
- ASIN: B001ORJ1K8
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Format:Hardcover
As an American, Nora Waln has the extraordinary experience at the age of 25 of being "adopted" into a wealthy and influential rural family in the early days of the Chinese Republic. She writes in detail of the family's history and the rites and traditions that guide daily life. She seems, however, to have a romanticised view of the lives of the ordinary Chinese of the time, observing their occupations, attendance at festivals etc but without reference to the pervasive poverty of the times. Regrettably, too, she makes only passing reference to the obviously high connections the family has with those who shaped China's destiny, including Chiang Kai-shek, and one is left feeling she could have added a lot more to one's understanding of the political history of the period. Nevertheless, Waln provides a fascinating and unique insight into the lives of the privileged of the time and for that reason alone the book is well worth the read.
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Format:Paperback
I have a very old copy of this book, published in 1939 by Penguin. (First published 1933.) I have no idea how representative it is of the lives of Chinese people in the 30s (the author obviously came from a very privileged background) but it is a very vivid and personal account of one woman's experience of living through the "interesting times" that China endured in the 20s and 30s. It must be a very unusual book - we seem to have a lot of reminiscences about life in China, told by mothers and grandmothers to women living in the late 20th and early 21st centuries; this is a first hand account. Although not specifically feminist, it is interesting from a feminist perspective, being very much told from a daughter's and a woman's viewpoint, and that woman one who embraced the "modern" and western world which would allow her to have an education and a career.
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