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041 _aEnglish
082 _a305.470
_bLUM
100 _aLu, Min-Zhan
245 _aShanghai quartet :
_bthe crossings of four women of China
_cMin-Zhan Lu
260 _aPittsburgh, PA :
_bDuquesne University Press,
_c2001.
300 _axvi, 292 pages ;
_c24 cm.
505 _tHaopo (1889-1993): A Woman of Good Fortune --
_tAhfen (1915- ): A Woman of Ill Fortune --
_tMmma (1915-1976): (A Victim of) Evil Doings --
_tYimin: Telling Immigrant Stories --
520 _aSteeped in the Chinese tradition of recording family tales and keeping the family register, Min-Zhan gives us this moving and powerful memoir describing the lives of four women of China - her grandmother, her nanny, her mother, and herself. "I wrote these family stories hoping that you will someday want to read them," she writes to her daughter in the book's opening lines. "I offer them to you as beginnings: notes on a lifetime of crossings for you to take over and work on.
650 _aLu family.
942 _2ddc
_cBOOKS
999 _c27176
_d27176