[PDF.82iz] A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman

A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman

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 | #269325 in Books |  Stanford University Press |  1967-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.90 x.80 x4.90l,.66 | File type: PDF | 144 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Insightful and Frustrating|By M.B.|"A Daughter of Han" is both an insightful and a frustrating read. The author, Ida Pruitt, writes in the first-person from the perspective of Lao T'ai-t'ai, a woman Pruitt met and interviewed. There are several interesting themes in the book: conservative society, saving face, foreign missionaries, poverty, numerology, and domestic life.
<| |"This is surely the warmest, most human document that has ever come out of China. . . . The report of her life and labors has the lasting symbolic quality of literature."–The American Journal of Sociology

"No recent book has better portrayed t

Within the common destiny is the individual destiny. So it is that through the telling of one Chinese peasant woman's life, a vivid vision of Chinese history and culture is illuminated. Over the course of two years, Ida Pruitt―a bicultural social worker, writer, and contributor to Sino-American understanding―visited with Ning Lao T'ai-ta'i, three times a week for breakfast. These meetings, originally intended to elucidate for Pruitt traditional Chinese family customs...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman   |  Ida Pruitt.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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