Fifth Chinese daughter /
Reprint of the Harper edition of 1950. The narrative shows how members of a typical Chinese family in San Francisco adapt themselves to American conditions.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
1989.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The world was new
- The world grows
- Forgiveness from heaven
- Grandmother and her world back home
- Lucky to be born a Chinese
- Uncle Kwok
- Learning to be a Chinese housewife
- The taste of independence
- Saturday's reward and Sunday's holiday
- "One who or that which slips"
- With eyes on China
- Cousin Kee
- A person as well as a female
- Girl meets boy
- A measure of freedom
- Marriage old and new style
- An unexpected offer--and a decision
- "Learning can never be poor or exhausted"
- Musicians on and off stage
- She finds her hands
- A summer of excitements
- Sending the ships to war
- "A little child shall lead them"
- Rediscovering Chinatown
- The sanctum of harmonious spring
- Alas, she was born too tall
- A life plan is cast
- "The work of one day is gazed upon for one thousand days."