Nine continents : a memoir in and out of China / Xiaolu Guo.
Guo, Xiaolu, 1973- author.
2017
PR9450.9.G86 Z46 2017
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Title Nine continents : a memoir in and out of China / Xiaolu Guo.
Author Guo, Xiaolu, 1973- author.
Edition First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
ISBN 9780802189325 electronic book
0802189326 electronic book
0802189326 hardcover
9780802127136 hardcover
Published New York : Grove Press, 2017.
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Call Number PR9450.9.G86 Z46 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 823/.92 B
Summary Xiaolu Guo has traveled further than most to become who she needed to be. Now, as she experiences the birth of her daughter in a London maternity ward surrounded by women from all over the world, she looks back on that journey. It begins in the fishing village shack on the East China Sea where her illiterate grandparents raised her, and brings her to a rapidly changing Beijing, full of contradictions: a thriving underground art scene amid mass censorship, curious Westerners who held out affection only to disappear back home. Eventually Xiaolu determined to see the world beyond China for herself, and now, after fifteen years in Europe, her words resonate with the insight of someone both an outsider and at home, in a world far beyond the country of her birth.--From the publisher.
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Intro
Praise for Nine Continents
Also by Xiaolu Guo
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
The Past Is a Foreign Country
Part I Shitang: Tales of the East China Sea
Part II Wenling: Life in a Communist Compound
Part IV Europe: In the Land of Nomads
Part V In the Face of Birth and Death
Acknowledgments
I'll See You in Berlin
Back Cover

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