A Thousand Miles of Dreams
Subtitle: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters (Asian Voices)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: October 25, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780742553132
Subjects: Biography: general; True stories of endurance & survival; United States; China; Asians In The U.S; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Travelers; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Literary; Personal Memoirs; Women; Biography & Autobiography / General; Non-Classifiable; Biography; Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies; Artists; Authors, Chinese; Physicians
Description: The biography of two intensely rivalrous Chinese sisters, a writer and a doctor, whose eventful lives took very different paths in their quest to be independent women. Daughters of an imperial scholar-official and a concubine, the two sisters followed professional trajectories unimaginable to their parents' generation, one emigrating to America and the other achieving fame in China as a writer, but also leaving China in 1945. They were Chinese modern girls who sought to forge their own way during a period of social revolution that unsettled relations between men and women--and among nations.--From publisher description.