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A 5 page paper on this nonfiction work by Jung Chang. It tells the story of three generations of Chinese women in the author's family, and how the cataclysmic changes of the twentieth century affected their very different lives. Bibliography lists one source.
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to the "Old China" when events were so much different. Through a look into the lives of these women, we can thus see the effects of Chinese history on particular
individuals; through them, history is made personal. And the changes that these three generations of women saw are truly amazing. For example, Yu-fang, who was given to a warrior
as a concubine at the age of 15, suffered through both the agony of foot-binding and, much later, the equal agony of allowing her feet to resume a semblance of
their natural configuration. After only six days together, her husband departed, leaving his little concubine back in her home town in the care of servants who guarded her zealously for
six years until his return. He reappeared only long enough, apparently, to father her child Bao Quin, and then left again, dying before he had a chance to repeat his
performance. Yu-fang was then summoned together with Bao Quin to join his other wives and concubines in the late warlords palace. She escaped, however, and married an elderly doctor, who
gave his young wife the nickname "Wild Swan". Even here she did not find peace, for she was forced to endure with her husband not only the Japanese occupation but
the mean-spirited jealousy of her husbands concubines and family. We now take up the story of Bao Quin, who grew up to marry a handsome, gentlemanly Communist official, Yu Yang.
One of Maos early aphorisms was "women hold up half the sky", and after hearing of her mothers youthful experiences (and living through many of the later ones) it
is easy to see why Bao Quin would feel that any ideology willing to give women a chance at equality was the path for her. Yu-fang was suspicious, feeling that
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