A Woman Soldier’s Own Story by Xie Bingying, translated by Lily Chia Brissman and Barry Brissman [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
01 Oct, by in Adult Readers, Chinese, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Translation
In a new translation by Xie’s own daughter Lily Chia Brissman and Barry Brissman, this autobiography gives a fresh new voice to a revolutionary Chinese woman who lived almost the entire 20th century –...
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