Under Fishbone Clouds - Sam Meekings Reviews
Description:ISBN 1846971020 /
Newest Review: ... he weaves traditional tales in with descriptions of modern China and it works together brilliantly. For anyone who knows very ... more
... little about China and is prepared to learn, this book is a really good start.
I have to be honest and say that, at the beginning of the book, I didn't like the whole Kitchen God and Jade Emperor storyline. Although it only takes up a very small part of the book - one or two pages preceding each chapter - I didn't feel that it was necessary. And to a certain extent, it isn't. The Bian Yuying and Hou Jinyi story is strong enough to not need embellishments, although I can understand the author's desire to make the ...more
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by - written on 29/09/09 (Very useful, 87 readings)
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Asked by the Jade Emperor to study humans and what keeps them alive even when war and political unrest cause great unhappiness, the Kitchen God picks a newly married couple, Bian Yuying and her husband, Hou Jinyi. Their marriage takes place in the 1940s, just before China became a Communist country. Although Yuying's family is rich, all that changes when Communism comes in, and the couple are forced to move to the countryside to earn a living, where they lose two babies. Eventually finding their way back to the city, they start up new lives and have more children, but the Cultural Revolution rears its ugly head, tearing their lives apart once more. How do they find the .. Read the complete review
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