the journeys of two Chinese sisters
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Welland, Sasha Su-Ling
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 9 LIN 2006
- Thesaurus
- immigranten, Chinees, zusters, medicijnen, schrijvers, schilders, historisch, Engels, China, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, 1900-1949, oral history, biografie
- Description
- The author reconstructs the lives of her elite Cantonese grandmother, Amy Ling Chen, who in 1925 won a scholarship to study medicine in the United States, and of Amy's elder sister, Ling Shuhua, a writer and painter who remained in China until 1945. Welland balances family sources with research and reading of Shuhua's fiction. This biography gives glimpses of 20th-century Chinese women's intellectual history and insights into the Chinese-American and Anglo-Chinese experience.