In Golden Mountain, Irene Kai tells a deeply personal story of how she overcame cultural bias and a difficult mother to move from China to America and become an independent woman. The child of a loveless arranged marriage, Kai was born into a culture where women were told to accept their fate and not question authority. Beginning with her great-grandmother, Wong Oi, who was humiliated by her husband's concubine, Kai traces the lives of women in her family through three generations until she reaches her own childhood. As a teen, Kai was brought to New York City by her American-born mother and began to rebel against her mother's physical and psychological abuses. In New York, she also discovered art, sexuality, and herself. Finding the strength to prosper in the "Golden Mountain," Kai made her own life and became truly independent, but she could not forget from where she came??in a poignant finale, Kai comes to terms with the family she left behind. An uplifting, unpredictable story, Golden Mountain is a book about overcoming, and coming to terms with, one's culture.
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From AudioFileThe calm emotional authority and dramatic range of Anna Fields add depth and continuity to this powerful morality tale about how women across four generationstranscend the confinement and abuse that was common in traditional Chinese culture. The strength of these characters is vivid and unforgettable. Author Irene Kai has a remarkable ability to express the ways the people in her story connect with each other in time and place, for better or worse. Reminding us that conflicts between individual dignity and absolute power are not new, Kai provides a story that will bring into question one's cultural assumptions and sense of entitlement.T.W. AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine--This text refers to the Audio CD edition.The Mail Tribune, April 2, 2004"Golden Mountain" is a story of empowerment, courage and forgiveness, lessons that transcend even those influences that would isolate us. 专业书评
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The calm emotional authority and dramatic range of Anna Fields add depth and continuity to this powerful morality tale about how women across four generationstranscend the confinement and abuse that was common in traditional Chinese culture. The strength of these characters is vivid and unforgettable. Author Irene Kai has a remarkable ability to express the ways the people in her story connect with each other in time and place, for better or worse. Reminding us that conflicts between individual dignity and absolute power are not new, Kai provides a story that will bring into question one's cultural assumptions and sense of entitlement.T.W. AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine--This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
The Mail Tribune, April 2, 2004
"Golden Mountain" is a story of empowerment, courage and forgiveness, lessons that transcend even those influences that would isolate us.
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"Golden Mountain" is a story of empowerment, courage and forgiveness, lessons that transcend even those influences that would isolate us. -- The Mail Tribune, April 2, 2004
"Golden Mountain" is a story of empowerment, courage and forgiveness, lessons that transcend even those influences that would isolate us. --The Mail Tribune, April 2, 2004作者简介
Irene Kai was born in Hong Kong and graduated from the School of Visual Arts, NYC and the Royal College of Art, London.Formerly a professor at Penn State University, Irene has traveled extensively and now makes her home in Ashland, Oregon.
| 出版社 | Silver Light Publications |
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| 作者 | Irene Kai |