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- catalog abstract ""Steeped in the Chinese tradition of recording family tales and keeping the family register, Min-Zhan gives us this moving and powerful memoir describing the lives of four women of China - her grandmother, her nanny, her mother, and herself. "I wrote these family stories hoping that you will someday want to read them," she writes to her daughter in the book's opening lines. "I offer them to you as beginnings: notes on a lifetime of crossings for you to take over and work on.""--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Crossings of four women of china".
- catalog contributor b12325996.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Steeped in the Chinese tradition of recording family tales and keeping the family register, Min-Zhan gives us this moving and powerful memoir describing the lives of four women of China - her grandmother, her nanny, her mother, and herself. "I wrote these family stories hoping that you will someday want to read them," she writes to her daughter in the book's opening lines. "I offer them to you as beginnings: notes on a lifetime of crossings for you to take over and work on.""--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Haopo (1889-1993): A Woman of Good Fortune -- An Exception -- A Maker of Bargains -- A Maker of Love -- Farewells -- Ahfen (1915- ): A Woman of Ill Fortune -- Ahfen's Ill Fortune -- Ahfen's Child -- Ahfen's Life Plan -- In Exile -- Ahfen's Place -- Mmma (1915-1976): (A Victim of) Evil Doings -- A Good-Looking Daughter -- The Courtship -- A Virtuous Wife and Good Mother -- Working Woman -- Yimin: Telling Immigrant Stories -- Where Are You From? -- Do The Chinese Drink Coffee? -- Who Was That? -- Why Couldn't You Be More Like That?".
- catalog extent "xvi, 292 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Shanghai quartet.".
- catalog identifier "0820703222 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Shanghai quartet.".
- catalog isPartOf "Emerging writers in creative nonfiction".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Pittsburgh, PA : Duquesne University Press,".
- catalog relation "Shanghai quartet.".
- catalog spatial "China Shanghai".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "305.47/0951/132 21".
- catalog subject "Chinese American women Family Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Families China Shanghai Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Family China Shanghai Case studies.".
- catalog subject "HQ1770.S47 L8 2001".
- catalog subject "Intergenerational relations China Shanghai Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Lu family.".
- catalog subject "Lu, Min-Zhan, 1946- Family.".
- catalog subject "Mothers and daughters China Shanghai Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Women China Shanghai Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Women immigrants United States Case studies.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Haopo (1889-1993): A Woman of Good Fortune -- An Exception -- A Maker of Bargains -- A Maker of Love -- Farewells -- Ahfen (1915- ): A Woman of Ill Fortune -- Ahfen's Ill Fortune -- Ahfen's Child -- Ahfen's Life Plan -- In Exile -- Ahfen's Place -- Mmma (1915-1976): (A Victim of) Evil Doings -- A Good-Looking Daughter -- The Courtship -- A Virtuous Wife and Good Mother -- Working Woman -- Yimin: Telling Immigrant Stories -- Where Are You From? -- Do The Chinese Drink Coffee? -- Who Was That? -- Why Couldn't You Be More Like That?".
- catalog title "Crossings of four women of china".
- catalog title "Shanghai quartet : the crossings of four women of China / by Min-Zhan Lu.".
- catalog type "text".