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Our story : a memoir of love and life in China /

Pingru's memoir is a celebration of a marriage that spanned the twentieth century in China. He had known Mao Meitang in childhood. Their union lasted almost sixty years. Through the decades they faced both poverty and good fortune, and were separated for seventeen years by the government when P...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rao, Pingru, 1922- (Author, Illustrator)
Other Authors: Harman, Nicky (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, [2018]
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
Rao, Pingru, > 1922-
Mao, Meitang.
Married people > China > Biography.
China > Social life and customs > 20th century.
China > Social conditions > 20th century.
China > Biography.
Married people > China > Biography > Pictorial works.
China > Social life and customs > 20th century > Pictorial works.
China > Social conditions > 20th century > Pictorial works.
China > Biography > Pictorial works.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Marriage & Long-Term Relationships.
HISTORY / Asia / China.
Table of Contents:
  • Our childhood years
  • I go to war
  • A dab of red lipstick
  • Journeying side by side
  • Crossroads
  • You ask me when I will return
  • Now you are gone
  • The passing of the seasons.