by Hong Ying · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747544050
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«Daughter of the River» is the autobiography of Hong Ying, published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Hong Ying evokes her childhood in a slum by the Yangtze, in Mao's China, amid superstition and hardship. The author probes the secrets surrounding her birth and uncovers a family past of war, famine and repression, until she decides to take control of her life and become a writer.
The edition carries the subtitle «An Autobiography». The work was originally published in Chinese as «Ji'er de Nü'er» (1997); this English edition appeared on April 23, 1999.
Aimed at readers of memoirs and of twentieth-century Chinese history.
Hong Ying is a Chinese author known for her novels.
