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Author Pingru, Rao, author, illustrator.

Title Our story : a memoir of love and life in China / Rao Pingru ; translated from the Chinese by Nicky Harman.

Publication Info. New York : Pantheon Books, [2018]

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B PINGRU RAO P    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  951.05 PIN    DUE 04-10-24
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  951.05092 PIN    DUE 04-03-24
Edition First American edition.
Description 363 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Our childhood years -- I go to war -- A dab of red lipstick -- Journeying side by side -- Crossroads -- You ask me when I will return -- Now you are gone -- The passing of the seasons.
Summary "Our Story ... follows [Rao and Meitang Pingru] through the decades, in both poverty and good fortune--looking for work, opening a restaurant, moving cities, mending shoes, raising their children, and being separated for seventeen years by the government when Pingru is sent to a labor camp. As the pair ages, China undergoes extraordinary growth, political turmoil, and cultural change''--Amazon.com.
Pingru's memoir is a celebration of a marriage that spanned the twentieth century in China. He had known Mao Meitang in childhood; their union lasted almost sixty years. Through the decades they faced both poverty and good fortune, and were separated for seventeen years by the government when Pingru is sent to a labor camp. During their marriage, China underwent extraordinary growth, political turmoil, and cultural change. -- adapted from amazon.com info.
Language Translated from the Chinese.
Subject Pingru, Rao.
Mao, Meitang.
Married people -- China -- Biography.
China -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
China -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
China -- Biography.
Married people -- China -- Biography -- Pictorial works.
China -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.
China -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.
China -- Biography -- Pictorial works.
Genre/Form Illustrated works.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Added Author Harman, Nicky, translator.
ISBN 9781101871492 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
1101871490 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
9781101871508 (electronic book)
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