- Taschenbuch: 304 Seiten
- Verlag: Penguin (Non-Classics); Auflage: Reprint (1. Januar 1996)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0140254277
- ISBN-13: 978-0140254273
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,6 x 12,7 x 1,5 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (8 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 926.571 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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From Publishers Weekly
This superbly told saga of family loyalties and disaffections reads more like a novel than an actual chronicle of Chan Sam, a Chinese peasant who left his family in 1913 to seek his fortune in the "Gold Mountain" of western Canada. There, though always planning to return to them, he set up a second family with the beautiful, headstrong concubine he brought with him from China. The story is narrated in the third person by his granddaughter, a Canadian economist, who creates an unsentimental portrait of both families: of Huangbo, the patient "home-wife" who raised their son and the two children the concubine, May-ying, left behind, and survived the Japanese occupation of China and the rule of Mao Tse-tung; of May-ying, whose earnings as a waitress in west coast teahouses often supported the struggling Chan Sam, his family in China and her own two Canadian-born children. And we learn of the fate of all the children, especially May-ying's daughter Hing, the author's mother. Although Chan Sam never fulfilled his dream of returning to his home-family, after his death, Hing and the author made the pilgrimage to China to embrace the relatives they had never known. Photos.
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From Booklist
Her curiosity piqued by a few old photographs, Chong retraced a family history that spanned an ocean and linked two continents. The epic tale she unearthed was that of her grandmother's life. Sold as a concubine to a Chinese man trying to make his fortune in the New World, May-ying became the fellow's second wife, working the tea house circuit in the greasy Chinatowns of Canada's west coast to support her husband's first wife and family back in South China. After an extended return to China, May-ying left two of her daughters with the first wife, never to see them again, and returned to Canada to give birth to her third child. The stories of a family on two continents that Chong subsequently tells reflect the impacts of such historical events as World War II, the reign of Mao Zedong, and changes in China's immigration policies. Carefully balancing cool observation and compassion, Chong writes extraordinary history and gives voice to the Chinese immigrant experience as China made its dramatic twentieth-century reentry upon the world stage. Mary Ellen Sullivan
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good story, iffy book,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Concubine's Children: The Stor (Taschenbuch)
the book is immensely valuable as a document of family history, but unfortunately it blatantly exploits the rich chinese culture and serves it up to white audiences as a curious existence full of superstitions and chinoiserie. hence, the meaningless accolades from the lily white literary world. her story is remarkable, but in the grander context, pretty common in the chinese-american/canadian immigrant narrative...it would have been much better if she just stuck to the story,( which is powerful enough in itself) without the endless chinese in quotations to lend the writing a false sense of credibility. furthermore, the title in and of itself exploits the sexualized image of the asian woman, so she can sell more books, when in fact, may-ying's character was not merely a concubine(and all that entails in the western context), but ms. chong fails to realize all the loaded messages the usage of that word conjures up. not to mention arousing all the prurient interests of curious white men looking for their subservient lotus-blossoms.. all of which further serves to marginalize and exoticize a culture, whose main problem is overcoming its perpetual image as strange and other...
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so boring,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Concubine's Children: The Stor (Taschenbuch)
i don't like this boo
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Simply one of the best books I've ever read.,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Concubine's Children: The Stor (Taschenbuch)
I couldn't put it down, and lent it to several friends who had the same experience. Brilliantly and honestly written, it will completely pull you in to a new "old" world.
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