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Under Red Skies
Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China | Karoline Kan
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A deeply personal and shocking look at how China is coming to terms with its conflicted past as it emerges into a modern, cutting-edge superpower. Through the stories of three generations of women in her family, Karoline Kan, a former New York Times reporter based in Beijing, reveals how they navigated their way in a country beset by poverty and often-violent political unrest. As the Kans move from quiet villages to crowded towns and through the urban streets of Beijing in search of a better way of life, they are forced to confront the past and break the chains of tradition, especially those forced on women. Raw and revealing, Karoline Kan offers gripping tales of her grandmother, who struggled to make a way for her family during the Great Famine; of her mother, who defied the One-Child Policy by giving birth to Karoline; of her cousin, a shoe factory worker scraping by on 6 yuan (88 cents) per hour; and of herself, as an ambitious millennial striving to find a job--and true love--during a time rife with bewildering social change. Under Red Skies is an engaging eyewitness account and Karoline's quest to understand the rapidly evolving, shifting sands of China. It is the first English-language memoir from a Chinese millennial to be published in America, and a fascinating portrait of an otherwise-hidden world, written from the perspective of those who live there.
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Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China | Karoline Kan
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#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
1.I think we're getting a much larger variety of voices,which is excellent-Karoline Kan's account of growing up in China,Ma Jian's spectacular work,books on conflicts that might otherwise get ignored in favour of yet another WWII epic.However,in a bid to overcompensate,worse books are getting hysterically overpraised.
2.Terrible at them!

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 🤩💜📖💜📚 3y
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Ast_Arslan
Ast_Arslan
Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China | Karoline Kan
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This is one is a big pick!
It's very interesting and I learnt a lot about chinese culture and its inconsistencies.
China is famous to be one of the most powerfull countries nowadays, but a large part of the population still live in extremely poor conditions.
As a modern women, I felt very bad about how the woman is still see in this big Country... and there are so many other things that made me mad about!
This one' ve really opened my mind!

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Ast_Arslan
Ast_Arslan
Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China | Karoline Kan
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Finally I found a moment to relax a bit!
I need to focus to read this one, is a biography and it's quite interesting!
I've always been attracted by China country first, then Japan... so I'm really enjoying this reading. I'm learning a lot!

#underredskies #karolinekan #dogsoflitsy #China #biography #ebook #company #toreadtolearn

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thevagabondlawyer
thevagabondlawyer
Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China | Karoline Kan
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Two months of reading slump and now I'm back albeit slowly 😊 UNDER RED SKIES is a perfect read to break the slump! Simple yet engaging, clear-eyed storytelling about the real China through the eyes of a woman who not only struggled to reach her dreams but triumphed against discrimination and double-standard imposed by the society over time. Karoline Kan did what she needed to do: to deliver a story with compelling clarity and truth!👏📖

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ontheBL
ontheBL
Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China | Karoline Kan
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This is one of those memoirs you'll start reading and find your hand over your heart. This one story represents thousands and thousands of untold stories. Kan's coming of age memoir touches on China's one-child policy, hukou, forced, sterilization, religion, and much more.

https://onthebl.org/2019/05/16/under-red-skies/

MrBook You‘ve got a lot of creative pictures. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 5y
ontheBL @MrBook It's my job. 5y
MrBook That makes sense 😆🙈. Creatives bring life and excitement to the world. 😎 5y
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