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China Dolls
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446 halaman cetak
- Tahun publikasi
- 2014
- Penerbit
- Bloomsbury Publishing
Kutipan
- Elizaveta Plotnikovamembuat kutipan6 tahun yang lalu
Speaking English means - Elizaveta Plotnikovamembuat kutipan6 tahun yang laluso I was ignorant about all things Chinese except Chinese rice wine, which my mom made and sold out our back door on Friday and Saturday nights to the men in Plain City—a place as dry as chalk even after Prohibition ended.
- Elizaveta Plotnikovamembuat kutipan6 tahun yang lalushrugged. I’d never seen a Japanese. I’d never seen a Chinese either other than my mother, my father, and my own reflection in the mirror—and Anna May Wong, Toy and Wing, and a couple of Orientals playing maids and butlers on the silver screen, but those weren’t in real life—so how could I be certain of the difference between a Japanese and a Chinese? I only knew my mother’s thin cheeks and chapped hands and my father’s weathered face and wiry arms.
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