Thousand Pieces of Gold
Subtitle: A Memoir of China's Past Through Its Proverbs
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Published: 2002
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780007124503
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.