The Moon Pearl

by McCunn, Ruthanne Lum

• ISBN13: 9780807083482
• ISBN10: 0807083488
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Random House Inc

Summary

The author of the classic "Thousand Pieces of Gold" returns with an uplifting novel of the real heroines of China's Pearl River Delta--young girls who fought and won a battle for economic and personal independence that changed the future for thousands of others.

Author Biography

Ruthanne Lum Mccunn is the Author of Thousand Pieces of Gold and Wooden Fish Songs, Among Other Works, in Print. She Lives in San Francisco

Table of Contents

Author's Note	ix
Prologue	1	(4)
1826-1833
Girls' Houses	5	(12)
Shadow	17	(10)
A Bird Snared in a Trap	27	(11)
Dreams of Happiness	38	(12)
Wily as a Fox	50	(11)
A Dead, Stinking Fate	61	(14)
1836-1837
A Matchmaker's Claims	75	(9)
A Red Affair	84	(12)
Wife	96	(10)
Insides Turned Upside Down	106	(10)
Struggling Woman	116	(10)
The Big Wind	126	(11)
1837-1838
The Best Thing	137	(9)
Vows of Spinsterhood	146	(10)
Gwoon Yum's Song	156	(9)
New Lives	165	(10)
Only One Heaven	175	(8)
A Lick of Hope	183	(9)
Outcasts	192	(9)
Opposite Sides	201	(10)
1838
Mountain Pines	211	(10)
Dead Useless	221	(8)
Freedom	229	(10)
Magpies Cry and Caw	239	(8)
A Miracle	247	(10)
Tongues as Swords	257	(12)
1838-1840
Tipping the Scales	269	(8)
Mercies	277	(7)
A Stranger	284	(6)
Sisters	290	(8)
Changing Luck	298	(7)
Capable Women	305	(8)
Acknowledgments	313