By Yang family.; Yang, Rae; Yang family., Yang (Family); Yang, Rae
Much of the facility of the narrative derives from Yang's multi-generational, cross-class standpoint. She invokes the myths, legends, folklore, and native customs that surrounded her and brings to existence the various those who have been instrumental in her existence: her nanny, a bad girl who raised her from a child and whose personality is conveyed during the bedtime stories she spins; her father; her loved grandmother, who died because of the political persecution she suffered.
Spanning the years from 1950 to 1980, Rae Yang's tale is evocative, advanced, and informed with notable candor. it truly is essentially the most quick and interesting narratives of existence in post-1949 China.
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What happened next? " I asked. "Of course not, you silly child! " "Aunty! " "No," she said, "you were asleep in my arms. " So on the day when our lives were really in danger, I was the only one who was not afraid. I was glad to hear that. By then my parents took me out more often, to parks, restaurants, and theaters. This I liked very much, not because I was sophisticated enough to appreciate the food and the performances. It was because I had a feeling that the people I met liked me. Mother agreed with me a few years later when we talked about this.
They put Nainai, who was then bedridden with diabetes, into a small storage room that had no windows. Not even servants of the family in the old society had lived in this room. For more than five years Nainai lived there by herself. In the end, she died in it alone. The six families, on the other hand, divided the house up among themselves. Soon they dug out Nainai's tree peonies, leveled Third Aunt's roses, turned the covered corridors into storage rooms, and built makeshift kitchens in the courtyards, using whatever material they could get hold of: concrete, broken bricks, plywood, and felt.
Their help was actually much needed, for at that time Nainai hired only one person who would come during the day to do grocery shopping and cook for the entire family. The other three rows of bungalows in Nainai's house were the up- I 8 Spider Eaters per houses. Taller and facing south, they were naturally warm in winter and cool in summer. The first row of the upper houses was the guest house. Being nearest to the street and closer to the servants' quarters, it gave the guests convenience and the host family privacy.