The Promise: Love and Loss in Modern China

by Xinran

Book Overview

A spellbinding and magical narrative, this is the story of modern China through the women who lived through it.

At the start of the twentieth century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born. They went on to have nine children and chose colours portrayed in some of their favourite poems as nicknames for them - Red, Cyan, Orange, Yellow, Green, Green Tangerine, Purple, Blue and Rainbow. Fate,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144821789X
• ISBN13: 9781448217892
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.7"