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Our story : a memoir of love and life in China
- Title
- Our story : a memoir of love and life in China / Rao Pingru ; translated from the Chinese by Nicky Harman.
- Author
- Rao, Pingru, 1922-2020
- Publication
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2018]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Harman, Nicky
- Description
- 363 pages : color illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Our Story ... follows [Rao and Meitang Pingru] through the decades, in both poverty and good fortune--looking for work, opening a restaurant, moving cities, mending shoes, raising their children, and being separated for seventeen years by the government when Pingru is sent to a labor camp. As the pair ages, China undergoes extraordinary growth, political turmoil, and cultural change''--Amazon.com.
- Pingru's memoir is a celebration of a marriage that spanned the twentieth century in China. He had known Mao Meitang in childhood; their union lasted almost sixty years. Through the decades they faced both poverty and good fortune, and were separated for seventeen years by the government when Pingru is sent to a labor camp. During their marriage, China underwent extraordinary growth, political turmoil, and cultural change. -- adapted from amazon.com info.
- Subjects
- Married people
- China
- Biography
- Married people > China > Biography > Pictorial works
- Rao, Pingru, 1922-
- Biographies
- Biography > Pictorial works
- Mao, Meitang
- Pictorial works
- Social conditions
- China > Biography > Pictorial works
- Autobiographies
- Manners and customs
- China > Social conditions > 20th century > Pictorial works
- Illustrated works
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Marriage & Long-Term Relationships
- China > Social life and customs > 20th century > Pictorial works
- HISTORY / Asia / China
- COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir
- 1900-1999
- Genre/Form
- Illustrated works.
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Biography – Pictorial works.
- Pictorial works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Chinese.
- Contents
- Our childhood years -- I go to war -- A dab of red lipstick -- Journeying side by side -- Crossroads -- You ask me when I will return -- Now you are gone -- The passing of the seasons.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-4158
- ISBN
- 9781101871492
- 1101871490
- LCCN
- 2017024862
- 40028178216
- OCLC
- 986816638
- Author
- Rao, Pingru, 1922-2020, author, illustrator.
- Title
- Our story : a memoir of love and life in China / Rao Pingru ; translated from the Chinese by Nicky Harman.
- Publisher
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2018]
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language
- Translated from the Chinese.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Harman, Nicky, translator.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028178216
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-4158