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Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China

Xiaolu Guo

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#492 of 3,809 books · #225 in Biography & Memoir

Won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2017).

Xiaolu Guo grew up an unwanted child in a poor fishing village on the East China Sea. A Taoist monk made a startling prediction to her grandmother: that Guo would prove herself to be a peasant warrior and grow up to travel the nine continents. In Nine Continents, Guo tells the story of a curious mind coming of age in an inhospitable country, and her determination to seek a life beyond the limits of its borders. From her family's village to a rapidly changing Beijing, to a life beyond China, Nine Continents presents a fascinating portrait of how the Cultural Revolution shaped families, and how the country's economic ambitions have given rise to great change.

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Publisher
Grove Press
ISBN-13
9780802189325
Topics
Growing up in ChinaCultural RevolutionImmigration and identity

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