Golden Lilies - Hardcover

Kwei-li

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670834386 ISBN 13: 9780670834389

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1990

Synopsis

The memoirs of a Chinese aristocrat and wife of a high ranking Chinese official offer an inside portrait of twentieth-century China

About this title

From Library Journal:

First edited and translated by American missionary Elizabeth Cooper in 1914, and issued as My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard, this two-part collection of letters has been adapted by best-selling author Goudge ( Garden of Lies, LJ 4/1/89). The first letters, written in the 1880s, are from a young wife to her new husband, who is traveling. They provide details of aristocratic family life within the strict confines of a traditional Chinese courtyard home. The second set, written 25 years later, are from the wife to her mother-in-law and record the early-20th-century transition to modern China. Unfortunately, the editorial additions (made in the original translation by Elizabeth Cooper) today result in a lack of authenticity. Kwei-Li could have had no reason to explain certain aspects of traditional Chinese culture to either her husband or her mother-in-law. The illustrations, by Zhang Ging, are delightful. Consider for lay readers interested in Chinese social history.
- Mary Mar garet Benson, Linfield Coll. Lib., McMinnville, Ore.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0670834386
• ISBN 13: 9780670834389
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Illustrator: Zhang Qing