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A Woman Soldier's Own Story
by Xie Bingying • Barry Brissman (Translator) • Lily Chia (Translator)
- BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
- 2001
- HARD COVER
- 336 PAGES
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The first English translation of Xie Bingying's autobiography, published in two installments in China in 1936 and 1946. Xie (1906-2000) chronicles her rebellious youth in pre-Communist China, especially her time as a soldier in the 1920s (fighting the feudal warlords) and 1930s (fighting the Japanese). A feminist, nationalist and polemicist, Xie was -- to put it mildly -- no shrinking violet. Her intensely political memoir reveals the desperate mood in China during the decades leading up to the revolution. Xie's daughter and son-in-law translated.
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