China, Mother of Gardens
Author: Ernest Henry Wilson
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 498
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Author: Ernest Henry Wilson
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 498
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ernest H. Wilson
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9781597741828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ernest Henry Wilson
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Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ernest Henry Wilson
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 408
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Published: 2022
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jane Kilpatrick
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Limited
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780711226302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCelebrates the skilled gardeners of Imperial China through new research that opens a new chapter in the story of our garden plants.
Author: Zhuqing Li
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2022-06-21
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0393541789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA BookBrowse Best Nonfiction for Book Clubs in 2024 “Exceptional…[A] gripping narrative of one family divided by the ‘bamboo curtain.’” —Deirdre Mask, New York Times Book Review Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence. Jun and Hong were scions of a once great southern Chinese family. Each other’s best friend, they grew up in the 1930s during the final days of Old China before the tumult of the twentieth century brought political revolution, violence, and a fractured national identity. By a quirk of timing, at the end of the Chinese Civil War, Jun ended up on an island under Nationalist control, and then settled in Taiwan, married a Nationalist general, and lived among fellow exiles at odds with everything the new Communist regime stood for on the mainland. Hong found herself an ocean away on the mainland, forced to publicly disavow both her own family background and her sister’s decision to abandon the party. A doctor by training, to overcome the suspicion created by her family circumstances, Hong endured two waves of “re-education” and internal exile, forced to work in some of the most desperately poor, remote areas of the country. Ambitious, determined, and resourceful, both women faced morally fraught decisions as they forged careers and families in the midst of political and social upheaval. Jun established one of U.S.-allied Taiwan’s most important trading companies. Hong became one of the most celebrated doctors in China, appearing on national media and honored for her dedication to medicine. Niece to both sisters, linguist and East Asian scholar Zhuqing Li tells her aunts’ story for the first time, honoring her family’s history with sympathy and grace. Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden is a window into the lives of women in twentieth-century China, a time of traumatic change and unparalleled resilience. In this riveting and deeply personal account, Li confronts the bitter political rivals of mainland China and Taiwan with elegance and unique insight, while celebrating her aunts’ remarkable legacies.
Author: Edwin T. Morris
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 304
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 394
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gail Tsukiyama
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2008-06-24
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1429965142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Gail Tsukiyama's The Samurai's Garden uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for this extraordinary story. A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu's secret and gains not only physical strength, but also profound spiritual insight. Matsu is a samurai of the soul, a man devoted to doing good and finding beauty in a cruel and arbitrary world, and Stephen is a noble student, learning to appreciate Matsu's generous and nurturing way of life and to love Matsu's soulmate, gentle Sachi, a woman afflicted with leprosy.