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Title: Bound Feet & Western Dress : A Memoir by Pang-Mei Chang ISBN: 0-385-47964-6 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 15 September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (25 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: facinating look at the chinese culture!
Comment: This book provides a facsinating look into Chinese culture through the eyes of a woman that broke age-old traditions. I found it hard to put this book down! If you have read and enjoyed Anchee Min's books ("Red Azalea" and "Katherine") I am sure you will enjoy this book. Pang-Mei Natasha Ling is writing about her Great Aunt, Chang Yu-i. Chang Yu-i life is amazing because her life is traditional and modern all rolled into one. She has a traditional Chinese marriage(arranged, complete with dowry), yet her husband admires Western ways. The authors family history is so rich and facinating... we should all be blessed with such incredible family stories!
Rating: 5
Summary: Haunting - Illuminates how culture can cripple women's minds
Comment: As Yu-i tells her story, it became clear to me that even though her feet had not been bound, her mind had been fatally wounded by the conditioning she received as a child that "woman is nothing."
Mistreated and abused by her husband she still devoted her life to protecting the the "face" of his parents and even his perverse second wife.
She would not allow herself to remarry until very old because of the shame it would bring on her family, though she was completely blameless in her husband's abandonment of her.
Hearing her tell her story in her own words gave me much greater insight into why it is so often women who perpetuate the women-mutilating traditions of dysfunctional cultures. I could clearly see in the attitudes she shares with us how a woman, no matter how brave, who grows up in a culture that finds only mutilated women "beautiful" will internalize the self-destructive attitudes that have been drummed into her during childhood.
I felt that the author's interweaving of her own story into the story of her great aunt weakened the book. The author is still very young and has not gone through the crises and major life decisions that would maker her own story complete enough to make it the kind of memoir material that could compete in interest with that of her great aunt. However, having I look forward to hearing "the rest of the story" when she is older. She is clearly on her way to being a fine writer!
Rating: 5
Summary: A good book, because it is a true story.
Comment: I enjoyed the auuthor's simple writing style. The story is about a woman who decides whether or not to make her own life, or allow it to be decided for her. The best thing about this book, is that it is a true story. The book was fast reading, and very inspirational. I would reccommend it.
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Title: The Concubine's Children by Denise Chong ISBN: 0140254277 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Falling Leaves : The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah ISBN: 0767903579 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 06 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Chinese Cinderella : The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah ISBN: 0440228654 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 13 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Daughter of the River: An Autobiography by Hong Ying ISBN: 0802136605 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China by Xiao Di Zhu, Zhu Xiao Di, Ross Terrill ISBN: 155849216X Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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