Shanghai quartet
Subtitle: the crossings of four women of China
By: Min-Zhan Lu.
Series: Emerging writers in creative nonfiction
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Lu, Min-Zhan, -- 1946- -- Family.; Lu family.; Women -- China -- Shanghai -- Case studies.; Families -- China -- Shanghai -- Case studies.; Mothers and daughters -- China -- Shanghai -- Case studies.; Intergenerational relations -- China -- Shanghai -- Case studies.; Chinese American women -- Family -- Case studies.; Women immigrants -- United States -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Other titles: Crossings of four women of china.
Description: "Steeped in the Chinese tradition of recording family tales and keeping the family register, Min-Zhan gives us this moving and powerful memoir describing the lives of four women of China - her grandmother, her nanny, her mother, and herself. "I wrote these family stories hoping that you will someday want to read them," she writes to her daughter in the book's opening lines. "I offer them to you as beginnings: notes on a lifetime of crossings for you to take over and work on.""--BOOK JACKET.