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Название книги: Pearl of China
Автор(ы): Anchee Min
Жанр: Современная проза
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For Pearl S. BuckI belong to China for I have lived there from childhood to adulthood… Happy for me that for instead of the narrow and conventional life of the white man in Asia, I lived with the Chinese people and spoke their tongue before I spoke my own, and their children were my first friends.Pearl S. BuckMy Several WorldsBehind the calm steadfast eyes of a Chinese woman, I feel a powerful warmth. We might have been friends, she and I, unless she had decided first that I was her enemy. She would have decided, not I. I was never deceived by Chinese women, not even by the flower-like lovely girls. They are the strongest women in the world. Seeming always to yield, they never yield. Their men are weak beside them. Whence comes this female strength? It is the strength that centuries have given them, the strength of the unwanted.Pearl S. BuckLetter from Peking
PART ONE
CHAPTER 1
Before I was Willow, I was Weed. My grandmother, NaiNai, insisted that naming me Weed was better. She believed that the god