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- catalog abstract ""The story of Rooster, Shadow, and Mei Ju, who become fast friends while members of a girls' house, where young daughters are taught to become daughter-in-law. These girls, however, want neither to marry nor to become nuns (the only options open to them at the time). They choose instead to support themselves through their skills in embroidery and silk production. Though ostracized by their families, attacked, and barely able to find sustenance and shelter, these sze saw, or self-combers as they would come to be called, manage to create lives that they alone control."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11765826.
- catalog coverage "China Fiction.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""The story of Rooster, Shadow, and Mei Ju, who become fast friends while members of a girls' house, where young daughters are taught to become daughter-in-law. These girls, however, want neither to marry nor to become nuns (the only options open to them at the time). They choose instead to support themselves through their skills in embroidery and silk production. Though ostracized by their families, attacked, and barely able to find sustenance and shelter, these sze saw, or self-combers as they would come to be called, manage to create lives that they alone control."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1826-1833 -- Girls' Houses -- Shadow -- A Bird Snared in a Trap -- Dreams of Happiness -- Wily as a Fox -- A Dead, Stinking Fate -- 1836-1837 -- A Matchmaker's Claims -- A Red Affair -- Wife -- Insides Turned Upside Down -- Struggling Woman -- The Big Wind -- 1837-1838 -- The Best Thing -- Vows of Spinsterhood -- Gwoon Yum's Song -- New Lives -- Only One Heaven -- A Lick of Hope -- Outcasts -- Opposite Sides -- 1838 -- Mountain Pines -- Dead Useless -- Freedom -- Magpies Cry and Caw -- A Miracle -- Tongues as Swords -- 1838-1840 -- Tipping the Scales -- Mercies -- A Stranger -- Sisters -- Changing Luck -- Capable Women.".
- catalog extent "316 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Moon pearl.".
- catalog identifier "0807083488 (hardcover)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Moon pearl.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Beacon Press,".
- catalog relation "Moon pearl.".
- catalog spatial "China Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "China".
- catalog subject "813/.54 21".
- catalog subject "PS3563.C353 M66 2000".
- catalog subject "Women China Fiction.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1826-1833 -- Girls' Houses -- Shadow -- A Bird Snared in a Trap -- Dreams of Happiness -- Wily as a Fox -- A Dead, Stinking Fate -- 1836-1837 -- A Matchmaker's Claims -- A Red Affair -- Wife -- Insides Turned Upside Down -- Struggling Woman -- The Big Wind -- 1837-1838 -- The Best Thing -- Vows of Spinsterhood -- Gwoon Yum's Song -- New Lives -- Only One Heaven -- A Lick of Hope -- Outcasts -- Opposite Sides -- 1838 -- Mountain Pines -- Dead Useless -- Freedom -- Magpies Cry and Caw -- A Miracle -- Tongues as Swords -- 1838-1840 -- Tipping the Scales -- Mercies -- A Stranger -- Sisters -- Changing Luck -- Capable Women.".
- catalog title "The moon pearl / Ruthanne Lum McCunn.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "Historical fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".