Grace: An American Woman in China: 1934-1974

Author: (USA) Eleanor Cooper, written by Liu Weihan, translated by Fu Zhi'ai
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Publishing Date: 2006-04-01
Features: In the late 1920s, a dreamer from the USA set off for New York to study voice. There, she met Liu Feiqi, a graduate from Cornell University in China, and married him. In 1934, Grace left the USA and went to Tianjin, China, to reunite with her husband. From then on, until 1974, Grace lived in China. During this time, she experienced the Japanese invasion of China, the Chinese Civil War, the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Korean War, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. The text of this book is simple yet deeply moving. Through the letters she wrote to her family in the USA, we see how this American woman, who had lived a life of luxury and carefree in the foreign concessions of Tianjin, gradually stepped out of her own enchanting, exotic, and romantic life, faced war, famine, floods, revolution, and the madness that swept across the vast land of China, finally confronting her own fate, blameless and unwavering, walking through life with perseverance, courage, and optimism.