5/13/2023 0 Comments Pearl of China by Anchee Min![]() Her memoir, Red Azalea, was named one of the New York Times Notable Books of 1994 and was an inter-national bestseller, with rights sold in twenty countries. She came to the United States in 1984 with the help of actress Joan Chen. Born in Shanghai in 1957, at seventeen she was sent to a labor collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao's Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as a movie actress. Currently-lives in San Francisco, California, USAĪnchee Min is a Chinese-born painter, photographer, musician, and author.Buck, illuminated by the sweep of history and an intimate, unforgettable friendship. Pearl of China brings new color to the remarkable life of Pearl S. This unlikely pair becomes lifelong friends, confiding their beliefs and dreams, experiencing love and motherhood, and eventually facing civil war and exile. ![]() Buck, Nobel Prize-winning writer and activist. ![]() Pearl is the headstrong daughter of Christian missionaries-and will grow up to become Pearl S. Willow is the only child of a destitute family. In the small southern China town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, two young girls bump heads and become thick as thieves. ![]()
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