Biography & Autobiography Literary
Tiger Girl (Hu Nu)
A Creative Memoir
- Publisher
- Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2001
- Category
- Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780920661932
- Publish Date
- Jan 2001
- List Price
- $22.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780920661925
- Publish Date
- Jan 2001
- List Price
- $16.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781927494127
- Publish Date
- Nov 2012
- List Price
- $13.99
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Description
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through the gripping stories of Hu Nü and her generation as they survive both political repression in Mao's China and outdated attitudes to women.
About the author
Contributor Notes
Lien Chao came to Canada in 1984 to pursue her graduate studies. She is the author of Beyond Silence: Chinese Canadian Literature in English (1997), winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian Criticism. Her publications also 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), Ed. 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).
As an inter-art artist, Lien Chao enjoys collaborating with artists of different disciplines in joint projects. She has also published several bilingual art books on Chinese Brush Painting. She strongly believes in cultural sharing via interactions among Canadians of different racial, cultural and spiritual backgrounds.
Other titles by Lien Chao
Spiritual Pursuits and Other Stories
Salt in My Life
Peng Ma
Abstract Ink Painting
Wang Dehui
Oil and Chinese Brush Paintings
Chinese Knot, The
and other stories
More Than Skin Deep
Poetry in English and Chinese
Strike the Wok
New Chinese Canadian Anthology, A
Maples and the Stream
A Narrative Poem
Beyond Silence
Chinese-Canadian Literature in English