Golden Lilies : Letters by Kwei Li

Goudge, Eileen; Kwei-Li

ISBN 10: 0340536225 / ISBN 13: 9780340536223

Published by Hodder, 1991

About this Item

1991 Hodder & Stoughton Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression . Like New with wonderful jacket design & illustrations. Adapted and with an introduction by Eileen Goudge.

Seller Inventory # ABE-4963118093

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Golden Lilies : Letters by Kwei Li
• Publisher: Hodder
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340536225
• ISBN 13: 9780340536223
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • China
  • Biography

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Synopsis

Plastic protective cover on DJ. Pages are clean and binding is tight.

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.
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