A Chinese Childhood"For anyone who wants to learn more about growing up in an upper class family in northern China during the early 1900's, this book is invaluable. Chiang Yee describes the everyday life, customs, and celebrations he experienced while a young boy. It seems idyllic and indirectly shows how the life of the well-to-do was insulated from all the turmoil going on in China at that time." --Publisher's description. |
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ancestral shrine Anhui asked aunts baby bamboo beautiful began birds boys brother Buddhist called ceremony China Chinese chrysanthemum Chu Yin-tai clothes coffin colour Confucian Confucius cousins dinner dragon dynasty elders embroidered Emperor Emperor Chien Lung farmers Father Festival fireworks flowers fox-spirit friends garden ginger roots girl-cousins girls Goddess Grandfather Grandfather's Grandmother guests hair happy heard history of China Hui-yuan husband incense Kiangsi Kiu-kiang knew ladies lake lanterns lived looked lotus Lu mountain ma-ma Manchurians married Ming dynasty month morning mother never occasion older once pagoda painting pair play poem remember rice round screen-wall sedan-chair SELLER servant silk silkworms sing sister sister-in-law sky-well smiled song stories swallows talk Tang Yin Taoist teacher things third great-uncle thought told took trees turtle uncle walked wall water caltrops wedding wife Yangtse River young youngsters