Old Madam Yin: A Memoir of Peking Life by Ida Pruitt

Old Madam Yin: A Memoir of Peking Life

Ida Pruitt

144 pages first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective medium-paced
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By the author of the classic A Daughter of Han, this is an affectionate, revealing portrait of an old, wealthy widow and her family in the Peking of the 1920s and early 1930s. Through the daily life and the memories of shrewd, forthright Lao Tai-t...

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