#WanderingJune
A few books from my shelves featuring a #ChinaGirl or China women. My current read is in the middle, The Joy Luck Club is an old favorite & the others are in my #TBR stack and/or downloaded on my Kindle. I had to return the tagged book to the library, but I put a hold on it & hope to get it back soon.🐲❤️
“Everybody says women are like water. I think it's because water is the source of life, and it adapts itself to its environment. Like women, water also gives of itself wherever it goes to nurture life....”
#WanderingJune | 3: #ChinaGirl
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#WanderingJune
(Day 3 - #ChinaGirl)
*The tagged book includes the phrase “Memoirs of a Childhood Among Ghosts.” The book is memoir interwoven with folklore. Some of Kingston‘s imagery is represented above: the No Name Woman; Fa Mu Lan & the White Tigers; her scholarly mother & her naming all white people “ghosts”; San Francisco Airport as “Western Palace”; her mother cutting the membrane under her tongue. Kingston is in the b&w framed photo.
In Oz, Dorothy meets an entire country whose citizens are made of china, including a #chinagirl #WanderingJune
#wanderingjune
Many options for #chinagirl as I‘ve read almost every novel by Amy Tan - thinking about this made me realise I need to read more Chinese writers in translation. Reccs welcome!
On a side note, the woman in Bowie‘s video for this song is Geeling Ng, an Aucklander that I met once years ago as she ran a couple of restaurants. She famously had a short affair with him and said he was a lovely man. 😍
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_YC3sTbAPcU
This “china girl” gets a Dragon tattoo and always evades tough scraps! LOVE this Bloody Jack series!
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One of my favorite Chinese authors is Anchee Min. These are her two memoirs. Red Azaela is about living through the Cultural Revolution and working at Mao‘s film studio. Cooked Seed is about her immigration to the United States in 1984. She‘s also written some historical fiction.
I read this book many (18 or so) years ago...it is about a man caught between living with the traditional #chinagirl in his arranges marriage and the modern woman he is in love with. I‘ve read and enjoyed several books by this author. #wanderingjune @BarbaraBB
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