A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters (Asian Voices)
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*For the bibliography mentioned in the book, click here.A Thousand Miles of Dreams is an evocative and intimate biography of two Chinese sisters who took very different paths in their quests to be independent women. Ling Shuhao arrived in Cleveland in 1925 to study medicine in the middle of a U.S. crackdown on Chinese immigrant communities, and her effort to assimilate began. She became an American named Amy, while her sister Ling Shuhua burst onto the Beijing literary scene as a writer of short fiction. Shuhua's tumultuous affair with Virginia Woolf's nephew during his years in C...
ISBN(s)
0742553132, 9780742553132
