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Alexander, Alma. Cao, Xueqin Jen, Gish Patterson, Molly See, Lisa See, Lisa. Tan, Amy Tan, Amy.Cao, Xueqin
Summary: Beloved by generations of Chinese readers, The Dream of the Red Chamber is China's touching equivalent of the Romeo & Juliet story. In addition to being a tale of star-crossed lovers, this epic novel also follows the story of five generations of one Chinese family giving modern readers a multi-layered dramatic plot to get lost in at the same time as it offers up key insights into Chinese culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAOTan, Amy
Summary: Violet Minturn, a half-Chinese/half-American courtesan who deals in seduction and illusion in Shanghai, struggles to find her place in the world, while her mother, Lucia, tries to make sense of the choices she has made and the men who have shaped her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Tan 2013See, Lisa
Summary: "According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness--is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations--looking, listening, touching, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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Summary: A mid-twentieth-century widow struggles to manage her farm and raise her children while reflecting on the intertwined experiences of her farm wife mother, her missionary aunt, and a Chinese student whose lives were shaped by the Boxer Rebellion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SEETan, Amy.
Summary: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China, where Ruth finds the famous bonesetter, a woman whose mouth was sealed shut during a suicide attempt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's 2001
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Summary: Lily is haunted by memories--of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SeeAlexander, Alma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALESee, Lisa.
Summary: Set in 17th century China, this is a coming-of-age story, a ghost story, a family saga and a work of musical and social history. Peony is the 15-year-old cloistered daughter of the wealthy Chen family. She is betrothed to a suitor she has never met. Peony's mother is against her daughter attending a production of "The Peony Pavilion," an epic opera, since she believes unmarried girls should...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC seeJen, Gish
Summary: "In her first collection of stories since the acclaimed Who's Irish?, the beloved author of The Resisters refracts the fifty years since the opening of China through the lives of ordinary people. Beginning with a cheery, kindly letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to "poor Mr. Nixon" in hell, Gish Jen embarks on an eleven-story journey through U.S.-Chinese relations, capturing not only the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENTan, Amy.
Summary: After being drawn together by the shadows of their past, four women start meeting every week in San Francisco to engage in hobbies they all enjoy. After one of the four members dies, her daughter takes her place to fulfill her mother's dying wish. After the revelation of a secret, the women are forced to think back to their pasts and remember the sometimes painful events of their lives.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Audio 2006