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Biography & Autobiography Literary

Tiger Girl (Hu Nu)

A Creative Memoir

by (author) Lien Chao

Publisher
Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
Initial publish date
Jan 2001
Category
Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780920661932
    Publish Date
    Jan 2001
    List Price
    $22.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780920661925
    Publish Date
    Jan 2001
    List Price
    $16.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781927494127
    Publish Date
    Nov 2012
    List Price
    $13.99

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Born in the Year of the Tiger, Hu Nu, unwanted female child, is nearly given away as a one-year-old bride in a Chinese village. She grows up during the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, when traditional values are challenged by the politicized young, and nonconformity is repressed with brutal humiliation, examples of which she witnesses daily in her neighbourhood and in her school. Hu Nu joins the Red Guard movement more out of fear than conviction, later to reject it bitterly for its senseless cruelty. Using first-person and third-person narratives, Lien Chao captures thirty-five years of recent Chinese history through the gripping stories of Hu Nü and her generation as they survive both political repression in Mao's China and outdated attitudes to women.

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Contributor Notes

Lien Chao is the author of Beyond Silence: Chinese Canadian Literature in English (1997), winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian Criticism. Her other publications include Tiger Girl: Hu Nü (2001), a creative memoir about growing up in Mao's China; Strike the Wok: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Canadian Fiction (2003), edited with Jim Wong-Chu; The Chinese Knot and Other Stories (2008); and three collections of bilingual poetry, Maples and the Stream (1999), More Than Skin Deep (2004), and Salt in My Life (2019). She has also published several bilingual books on Chinese Brush Painting. She is an inter-arts artist.