A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters

by Sasha Su-Ling Welland

Book Overview

A Thousand Miles of Dreams is an evocative and intimate biography of two Chinese sisters who took very different paths in their quests to be independent women. Ling Shuhao arrived in Cleveland in 1925 to study medicine in the middle of a U.S. crackdown on Chinese immigrant communities, and her effort to assimilate began. She became an American named Amy, while her sister Ling Shuhua burst onto the Beijing literary scene as a writer of short...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742553132
• ISBN13: 9780742553132
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

An Amazing Story

Amy was my Grandmother and I learned so much about my family history from Sasha's book. I loved the exploration of the truth between the stories that we heard growing up and Sasha's extensive research on the reality of the stories. I loved Sasha's book and consider it an important part of my roots.

Exceptional

Professor Welland proves that extensive research and good storytelling are not mutually exclusive, which does not hold true for many of the academic books I have read. This book is unmistakably academic, with Welland adding a scholarly and critical perspective to the events she describes, but that is certainly not a bad thing. Layered with incredible detail, her graceful writing style made the stories of both her ancestors, and the search to reconcile their differences, extremely engaging. Certainly a worthwhile read for anyone interested in Chinese history.