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Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic
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Title: Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic
Author: Bette Bao Lord
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Published: 1990
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 245
Catalogs: China, Memoir
Description: First edition's original dark green cloth binding with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Dust jacket in very good condition with minor shelf wear and traces of labels. Owner's label on front pastedown, and name in pencil on rear pastedown. In Legacies, Lord interweaves her own story, and that of her clansmen, with the voices of men and women who recall the tumultuous experience of the last fifty years, and the legacy of the Cultural Revolution. In precise, subtle prose, Lord explores the reality of Red Guards and reeducation camps, of friends and families severed by political disgrace, and captures the individual voices of those caught up in them. Bette Bao Lord was born in China in 1938, raised in America, author of the bestselling novel Spring Moon, wife of a former American ambassador to China, resident in Beijing during the "China Spring" of 1989. Lord’s unique web of relationships and her sensitive insight have enabled her to observe Chinese life both high and low, Communist and dissident, intellectual and ordinary. Hardcover, very good condition. 245 pages, octavo.
Author: Bette Bao Lord
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Published: 1990
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 245
Catalogs: China, Memoir
Description: First edition's original dark green cloth binding with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Dust jacket in very good condition with minor shelf wear and traces of labels. Owner's label on front pastedown, and name in pencil on rear pastedown. In Legacies, Lord interweaves her own story, and that of her clansmen, with the voices of men and women who recall the tumultuous experience of the last fifty years, and the legacy of the Cultural Revolution. In precise, subtle prose, Lord explores the reality of Red Guards and reeducation camps, of friends and families severed by political disgrace, and captures the individual voices of those caught up in them. Bette Bao Lord was born in China in 1938, raised in America, author of the bestselling novel Spring Moon, wife of a former American ambassador to China, resident in Beijing during the "China Spring" of 1989. Lord’s unique web of relationships and her sensitive insight have enabled her to observe Chinese life both high and low, Communist and dissident, intellectual and ordinary. Hardcover, very good condition. 245 pages, octavo.