A Thousand Pieces of Gold
Subtitle: Growing Up Through China's Proverbs
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: September 16, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780060006419
Subjects: Literary Forms; Folklore; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Sociology; Asia - China; General; Biography & Autobiography / General; Folklore & Mythology
First sentence: When I was thirteen years old, my parents told me that I was to leave school at fourteen and get a job because they no longer wished to pay for my education.