A thousand miles of dreams : the journeys of two Chinese sisters /

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The biography of two intensely rivalrous Chinese sisters, a writer and a doctor, whose eventful lives took very different paths in their quest to be independent women. Daughters of an imperial scholar-official and a concubine, the two sisters followed professional trajectories unimaginable to their...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Welland, Sasha Su-Ling, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers : Distributed by National Book Network, c2006.
Colección:Asian voices (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.)
Temas:
Ling, Shuhao, > 1904-2006.
Ling, Shuhua, > 1900-1990.
Ling, Shuhao, > 1904-2006
Ling, Shuhua, > 1900-1990
Physicians > United States > Biography.
Authors, Chinese > Biography.
Artists > China > Biography.
Immigrants > United States > Biography.
Chinese Americans > Biography.
Sisters > China > Biography.
Médecins > États-Unis > Biographies.
Écrivains chinois > Biographies.
Artistes > Chine > Biographies.
Américains d'origine chinoise > Biographies.
Sœurs > Chine > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Artists
Authors, Chinese
Chinese Americans
Immigrants
Physicians
Sisters
San Francisco (Calif.) > Biography.
China > Biography.
California > San Francisco
China
United States
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A Thousand Miles Of Dreams ; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note; Prologue: Departure; Part I: Moving House; 1 Origins; 2 Ambition; 3 Disappointment; 4 Courtyards; 5 Mountains and Walls; Part II: Casting Off; 6 Lessons; 7 Mist; 8 Amid Ghosts; 9 Into the Streets; 10 Romance; 11 Gatherings; 12 Modern Medicine; 13 Crescent Moon; Part III: Seeking a Mooring; 14 Arrival; 15 Adrift; 16 Souvenirs; 17 The Entangling Net; 18 Rice Porridge; 19 War Letters; 20 An American Home; 21 Wandering; 22 The Chinese House; Epilogue: Return; Sources; References; Permissions; Index

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