Grace, a woman from the United States in China, 1934-1974

Author: (American) 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 America 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 United States and went to Tianjin, China, to reunite with her husband. From then on, until 1974, Grace lived in China, experiencing 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 America, 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 intoxicatingly exotic, romantic, and luxurious life to face war, famine, floods, revolution, and the madness that swept across the vast land of China. Finally, she faced her fate with no regrets, walking through life with perseverance, courage, and optimism.