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9780807083499

The Moon Pearl

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807083499

  • ISBN10:

    0807083496

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2001-09-22
  • Publisher: Beacon Press
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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, in the 19th century, fought and won a battle for economic and personal independence that changed the future for thousands of others.

Author Biography

Ruthanne Lum McCunn was born in Hong Kong and has published seven books on the experiences of Chinese people in America; more than 275,000 copies of her books are in print.

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

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