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A carregar... Tiger's Heart: The Story of a Modern Chinese Woman (edição 2009)por Aisling Juanjuan Shen (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This book describes the dismal world of a young female living as a rural peasant in modern day China. Her family life is rather abusive and most people around her have given up hope. She, however, has ambition to escape this life and does becoming a teacher sent to another dismal village. Eventually she escapes that life only to find herself in dangerous and abusive predicaments in the big city. I admired her spunk and drive in spite of all that happens. Most of the book is compelling. The ending comes too quickly and is not fleshed out as well as it could be. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
This remarkable true story of a Chinese peasant girl's unlikely rise to success is "like a suspense novel . . . Impossible to put down"(Library Journal, starred review). Aisling Juanjuan Shen was born to illiterate peasants in a tiny farming hamlet in China's Yangtze Delta in 1974. Pronounced useless by her parents because she wasn't good at planting rice, she became the first person from her village ever to attend college. After graduating with a teaching degree, the government assigned her to a remote and low-paying job that she was expected to hold for the rest of her life. But she wasn't satisfied--and she bought her way out of her secure position and left for the special economic zones of southern China, in search of happiness and success in the business world, eventually immigrating to the United States. In this memoir, Aisling chronicles her rise from rural poverty to a successful career, illustrating the massive economic and social changes that have taken place in China over the past several decades. Her story is emblematic of a new generation of Chinese women who are leaving the rice paddies and government jobs in order to enter the free market and determine the course of their own lives. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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There are billions of them, simple girls, not too beautiful, not too smart, not too ambitious.... ooops, wait, on opposite: they ARE ambitious. The desire for a better life keeps them going and going, through hardship and injustice, through torture and through shame.... everything to get to the Future which will, absolutely, it MUST be, better than today.
Some of them are running away from quite acceptable conditions.
But in the end, it does not matter for as long as they acknowledge to themselves that it all was worth suffering. That the result is greater than the sum of paths they needed to take to get there.
The heroine of this biography has a heart of a Tiger and she has fulfilled her heart's desire. By different means she got where she wanted and reading her story I cannot hold the shiver and ask myself: "What do YOU want this bad?" and to order myself: "You MUST want a better life! You MUST want it in order to move your a** to get it!!!!!"
...and again I am frustrated, if not angry, with myself for the lack of Tigerness in my nature.
...read this book to learn what a simple girl can do to fulfill a quantum jump in her Destiny. ( )