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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Eighth Moon The True Story of a Young Girl's Life in Communist China by Bette Bao Lord Eighth Moon: The True Story of a Young Girl's Life in Communist China by Bette Bao Lord. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 658eadd379b584c8 • Your IP : 188.246.226.140 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Eighth Moon: The True Story of a Young Girl's Life in Communist China by Bette Bao Lord. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 658eadd389ba84c8 • Your IP : 188.246.226.140 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Bette Bao Lord lets freedom ring. On this day in 1993, author Bette Bao Lord testified to the U.S. House of Representatives, arguing that human rights and freedom are not Western values, but universal ones. Born in Shanghai raised in Brooklyn, Bette Bao Lord has explored the political currents of Chinese communism and American democracy in her fiction and nonfiction. Author of the best-selling novel Spring Moon and other books, she looks at the U.S. through the eyes of an immigrant with a dual identity. She arrived in America with her parents when she was eight. Her father, Sandys Bao, was sent on temporary assignment to the U.S. in 1946 by the Chinese government. But when Mao Zedong and the communist rebels won the civil war, the "bamboo curtain" came down, and he and his family were unable to go back. Bette Bao adapted to American ways, was educated in the U.S., and married Winston Lord, a foreign service officer who later became U.S. ambassador to China. In her March 10, 1993 testimony to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, she describes the qualities that make the United States a country of immigrants, a beacon for people around the world. And she makes a passionate case for her adopted country to “stay engaged” and promote democracy and human rights. "Some consider it culturally chauvinistic to project our own values elsewhere," she tells the legislators. "They fail to understand that freedom is not a matter of 'Westernization,' it is the core of modernization." In 1962, Bette Bao Lord's family was reunited with her youngest sister Sansan, who was barely a year old when the family moved abroad and stayed behind with an aunt because because she was considered too young to travel. After the Communist victory, Sansan was forced to remain in China. At first, the family thought the separation would be for a year or two. But Sansan was trapped in China, and it would be another 16 years before the family could be together. Bette Bao Lord's first book, Eighth Moon: The True Story of a Young Girl's Life in Communist China, tells the story of how Sansan grew up in extreme hardship in the People's Republic. It provides a glimpse into the early days of the Maoist regime and a stark portrayal of the divergent lives of two sisters, cruelly separated by political upheaval. Is your company doing everything it can to maximize the value of your female talent? Download my free checklist to find out. My name is Dana Rubin, and I help women put their ideas into the world powerfully and persuasively. I’m the founder of The Speaking While Female Speech Bank, and the editor of the forthcoming Speaking While Female: 50 Extraordinary Speeches by American Women (Real Clear | Fall 2021). I'm opening up a discussion about the role of women’s public speech in history and invite you to take part. We need to hear the best ideas from everyone to address our toughest problems — so let's improve this world together. Eighth Moon by Bette Bao Lord. Eighth Moon: True Story of a Young Girl's Life in Communist China. Lord, Bette Bao. Published by Sphere, 1984. Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Eighth Moon: True Story of a Young Girl's Life in Communist China. Lord, Bette Bao. Published by Sphere, 1984. Used - Softcover Condition: Fair. Paperback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration. Eighth Moon. Bao Lord, Bette. Published by Renaissance Literary & Talent, 2020. Used - Softcover Condition: Good. Condition: Good. A+ Customer service! Satisfaction Guaranteed! Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting. Eighth Moon. Bao Lord, Bette. Published by Renaissance Literary & Talent, 2020. New - Softcover Condition: New. Condition: New. A+ Customer service! Satisfaction Guaranteed! Book is in NEW condition. Eighth Moon: The Heartwarming Real-Life Story of a Chinese Childhood - the True Life Story of a Young Girl's Life in Communist China. Sansan as Told to Bette Bao Lord. Published by Sphere Books, London, 1984. Seller: Riley Books, Oswaldtwistle, United Kingdom Contact seller. Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good. Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. One minor crease alongside spine and a previous owner's christian name on top left hand corner of opening page, otherwise in an excellent condition. Separated from her parents as a one-year-old baby, Sansan of Tientsin knew nothing of her true family - only the hardships of growing up in the China of the 50s and 60s: the food shortages, the backbreaking 'voluntary' labour in the paddy fields, the constant pressure to conform. For sixteen hungry years, Sansan's courage and humour saw her through - until the day she learned of her real parents, alive and well and living in America, and set out on a daring journey to join the family she had never known. Told with touching simplicity, this is Sansan's own remarkable tale, as told to her sister, Bette Bao Lord, bestselling author of Spring Moon. As an unrivalled glimpse into life in contemporary China and a moving story, Eighth Moon will surprise, delight and enthral. Book. Bette Lord's tale of China: even Kissinger learned from it. A quiet aftenoon talk with novelist Bette Bao Lord turns out to be rather more like celebrating the Chinese new year in high-spirited company. In the understated elegance of her Park Avenue living room, she is all sparkle and snap , punctuating tales of her homeland and her clan with girlish laughter, then turning intense and serious as she relates darker moments of China's recent Cultural Revolution. She evokes the pageantry and pain of China's struggles over the centuries and conjures up ghostly processions of ancestors - both her own, which range from scholar-aristocrats to skilled craftsmen, and those equally vivid characters in her best-selling novel, ''Spring Moon'' (New York: Harper & Row. $14.95). ''My father was a storyteller - once debating champion of China, in fact,'' recalls Bette Lord, who came to the United States with her family when she was eight, just before the communist victory and the fall of Chiang Kai-shek. They had intended to stay only a few years, but her father, a procurement officer for the Nationalist (subsequently the Taiwanese) government, settled permanently near New York City after the communist takeover. ''One of the things that helped me become a writer,'' she says, ''was that I loved to talk to my parents, who were both wonderful storytellers. I was much more of a homebody than my sister Cathy, who was just four when she came here and who had a more typical American teen-age existence. I had a much more Chinese upbringing and liked my parents' company more than that of my peers. So much of what I know about China, and even more important, how I feel about life, came from the hours and hours across the dining room table when I was growing up. I loved to hear about my grandparents and their friends' lives, the old ways and what they lived through - what they survived, in fact.'' But there was more to the making of ''Spring Moon'' than lively dinner-table conversations.