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Daughters Of The Flower Fragrant Garden : Two Sisters Separated By China's Civil War

Daughters Of The Flower Fragrant Garden : Two Sisters Separated By China's Civil War

Li, Zhuqing, 1963- author.
EBook 2022

"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,...

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Chen family
Chen, Hong (Pseudonym)
Chen, Wenjun, 1923-2014
China History Civil War, 1945-1949 Biography
Families China Fuzhou Shi (Fujian Sheng) History 20th century
Fuzhou Shi (Fujian Sheng, China) Biography
Refugees Taiwan Biography
Sisters China Fuzhou Shi (Fujian Sheng) Biography
Taiwan Biography
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ISBN:
9780393541786
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Two sisters separated by China's Civil War
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Electronic book
Electronic reproduction. New York W. W. Norton & Company 2022 Available via World Wide Web
Contents:
Part I The Garden
Expelled
Part II Leaving
The East Is Red
Adrift
Beyond the Hospital Walls
Arriving in Taiwan
"Continue the Leap"
Part III Re- education
"It's Our Home"
"The Big Muscle"
Midnight Train to Gaoxiong (Kaohsiong)
The Past That Refused to Fade
Part IV Setting Sail
Stepping- Stone
"No Tears for Today!"
Into a New World
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