On the eve of the Second World War, a young Chinese man is sent to his family's summer home in Japan to recover from tuberculosis. There he meets four local residents, and what ensues is a classical yet wonderfully unique adventure that seizes the imagination with its clean, simple yet dazzling storytelling.
Japan, 1939. Two orphaned brothers are growing up with loving grandparents who inspire them to dream of a future firmly rooted in tradition. The older boy, Hiroshi, shows signs of promise at sumo wrestling, while Kenji is fascinated by the art of Noh Theatre masks. But as the ripples of war spread, the brothers must put their dreams on hold-and ...
Set in rural China in 1926, this story tells how a group of exploited silk-workers lead the first strike for better conditions than their village has ever seen. The women combine their courage and strength to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own.
This novel, set in the world of China's silk industry, is the story of Pei, beginning in 1938 with her work in a silk factory and ending in 1973, when her life has become very different.
As World War II threatens their comfortable life in Hong Kong, young Joan and Emma Lew escape with their family to spend the war years in Macao. When they return home, Emma and Joan grow into independent young women and pursue lives and careers very different from those their family and relatives consider acceptable.
Hana is dying of Werner's Syndrome, in which a person ages with horrible rapidity: at 38, she is like a woman of 80. Her mother Cate, recently widowed, meditates on her own past and on her daughter's sad fate. And Hana's goddaughter Josie, visiting with her mother, attempts to view the entire household and its inhabitants with the teenage scorn ...
Art/Women/California 1950-2000: Parallels and Intersections is an unprecedented examination of the impact that specific women artists, working in California in the second half of the twentieth century, have had on broadening the definition of art. Twenty preeminent scholars from diverse cultural backgrounds investigate how the vast sociopolitical ...
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