03408cam a2200481 i 4500 1564120244 TxAuBib 20240904120000.0 240329s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024013629 9781420515794 hardcover 1420515799 hardcover (OCoLC)1428258762 TxAuBib rda Chung, Eve J., author. Daughters of Shandong : a novel / Eve J. Chung. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2024. ©2024. 573 pages (large print) : map ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Thorndike Press large print diverse voices "Daughters are the Ang family's curse. In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai is the eldest of four girls and spends her days looking after her sisters. Headstrong Di, who is just a year younger, learns to hide in plain sight, and their mother--abused by the family for failing to birth a boy--finds her own small acts of rebellion in the kitchen. As the Communist army closes in on their town, the rest of the prosperous household flees, leaving behind the girls and their mother because they view them as useless mouths to feed. Without an Ang male to punish, the land-seizing cadres choose Hai, as the eldest child, to stand trial for her family's crimes. She barely survives their brutality. Realizing the worst is yet to come, the women plan their escape. Starving and penniless but resourceful, they forge travel permits and embark on a thousand-mile journey to confront the family that abandoned them. From the countryside to the bustling city of Qingdao, and onward to British Hong Kong and eventually Taiwan, they witness the changing tide of a nation and the plight of multitudes caught in the wake of revolution. But with the loss of their home and the life they've known also comes new freedom--to take hold of their fate, to shake free of the bonds of their gender, and to claim their own story. Told in assured, evocative prose, with impeccably drawn characters, Daughters of Shandong is a hopeful, powerful story about the resilience of women in war; the enduring love between mothers, daughters, and sisters; and the sacrifices made to lift up future generations"-- Provided by publisher. 20240904. Zhongguo guo min dang Fiction. Women China Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Sisters Fiction. Rich people Fiction. Torture Fiction. War victims Fiction. Patriarchy Fiction. China History Civil War, 1945-1949 Fiction. China Social conditions 1912-1949 Fiction. Taiwan History 1945- Fiction. Taiwan Social conditions 1945- Fiction. Historical fiction. lcgft Large print books. lcgft Thorndike Press large print diverse voices. TXKPL