Name: The Promise: Love and Loss in Modern China
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Author: Xue, Xinran ; Spence, William
ISBN: 9781448217892

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The Promise: Love and Loss in Modern China

Type

Physical Book

Author

Xinran Xue

Translated by

William Spence

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.6 x 12.7 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9781448217892

Synopsis "The Promise: Love and Loss in Modern China"

At the start of the twentieth century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born. They went on to have nine children and chose colours portrayed in some of their favourite poems as nicknames for them - Red, Cyan, Orange, Yellow, Green, Green Tangerine, Purple, Blue and Rainbow. Fate, and the sweep of twentieth-century history, would later divide them. Xinran begins with the magic and tragedy of one young couple's wedding night in 1949, and goes on to tell personal experiences of loss, grief and hardship through China's extraordinary century. A spellbinding and magical narrative, this is the story of modern China through the women who lived through it.

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