Four Sisters of Holi(胡里四姐妹)

Through the stories of four sisters born between 1907 and 1914, a renowned historian examines a century of change in Chinese culture and in women's lives. Now in their late eighties and early nineties, the four Chang sisters lived through a century of historic change in China. In this extraordinary work, assembled with the benefit of letters, diaries, family histories, poetry, journals and interviews, Annping Chin shapes the story of one family into a riveting chronicle that provides a unique insight into the old China and its transition into the new. From prosperity to persecution, from foreign wars to Cultural Revolution, "Four Sisters of Hofei" is an intensely personal and sweeping story that illustrates the complex history of a complex culture.

Annping Chin was born in Taiwan in 1950. Her family moved to America in 1962. She is the author of Children of China, and the co-author, with her husband Jonathan Spence, of Chinese History: A Photographic History of the Last Hundred Years. She teaches in the history department at Yale University.

Book Description
Through the stories of four sisters born between 1907 and 1914, a renowned historian examines a century of change in Chinese culture and in women's lives. Now in their late eighties and early nineties, the four Chang sisters lived through a century of historic change in China. In this extraordinary work, assembled with the benefit of letters, diaries, family histories, poetry, journals and interviews, Annping Chin shapes the story of one family into a riveting chronicle that provides a unique insight into the old China and its transition into the new. From prosperity to persecution, from foreign wars to Cultural Revolution, "Four Sisters of Hofei" is an intensely personal and sweeping story that illustrates the complex history of a complex culture.

From the Publisher
An Intimate account of China in the last century told through the lives of four exceptional sisters. With the detail and narrative skill of Stella Tillyard's 'Aristocrats' and James Fox's 'The Langhorne Sisters'.

AnnPing Chin's writing provides a visual description of Chinese life similar to that of Bertolucci's 'Last Emperor'.

Book Dimension
length: (cm)19.7 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)12.8