Full name: Daughter of the River: An Autobiography

Author: Hong Ying Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780802136602 0802136605

Daughter of the River is a memoir of China unlike any other. Born during the Great Famine of the early 1960s and raised in the slums of Chongqing, Hong Ying was constantly aware of hunger and the sacrifices required to survive. As she neared her eighteenth birthday, she became determined to unravel the secrets that left her an outsider in her own family. At the same time, a history teacher at her school began to awaken her sense of justice and her emerging womanhood. Hong Ying's wrenching coming-of-age would teach her the price of taking a stand and show her the toll of totalitarianism, poverty, and estrangement on her family. With raw intensity and fearless honesty, Daughter of the River follows China's trajectory through one woman's life, from the Great Famine through the Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square. Similar books: Sounds of the River by Da Chen To the Edge of the Sky by Anhua Gao Colors of the Mountain by Da Chen Daughter of China by Meihong Xu Red China Blues by Jan Wong Leaving Mother Lake by Yang Erche Namu Red Azalea by Anchee Min From Emperor to Citizen by Pu Yi Foreign Babes in Beijing by Rachel DeWoskin A Thousand Pieces of Gold by Adeline Yen Mah The Early Arrival of Dreams by Rosemary Mahoney Bound Feet & Western Dress by Pang-Mei Chang Chinese Lessons by John Pomfret Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Educated by Tara Westover Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls