| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 07 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Nancy Wu. |
| Summary |
Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence. Scions of a once-great southern Chinese family that produced the tutor of the last emperor, Jun and Hong were each other's best friends until, in their twenties, they were separated by chance at the end of the Chinese Civil War. For the next thirty years, while one became a model Communist, the other a model capitalist, they could not even communicate. On Taiwan, Jun married a Nationalist general, established an important trading company, and ultimately emigrated to the United States. On the Communist mainland, Hong built her medical career under a cloud of suspicion about her family and survived two waves of re-education" before she was acclaimed for her achievements. Zhuqing Li recounts her aunts' experiences with extraordinary sympathy and breathtaking storytelling. A microcosm of women's lives in a time of traumatic change, this is a fascinating, evenhanded account of the recent history of separation between mainland China and Taiwan. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Fuzhou Shi (Fujian Sheng, China) -- Biography.
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Chen, Wenjun, 1923-2014.
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Chen, Hong (Pseudonym)
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Chen family.
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Sisters -- China -- Fuzhou Shi (Fujian Sheng) -- Biography.
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Families -- China -- Fuzhou Shi (Fujian Sheng) -- History -- 20th century.
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Refugees -- Taiwan -- Biography.
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Taiwan -- Biography.
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China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949 -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Wu, Nancy, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
Two sisters separated by China's Civil War |
| ISBN |
9781667071602 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1667071602 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT15201443 |
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