New York: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated First Edition. Same date on Title Page & Copyright (1990) Hard cover in very good condition with green boards; gold gilt spine lettering and author's initials on front board also in gold gilt. Former owner's name & address in ink at top right corner of front free end paper. No other writing noted. Text block clean & tight; no markings to note. Deckle edges on the side text block. 245 numbered pages; concludes with a Chronology of pertinent dates in Chinese history from 1839 to1989. Dust jacket very good with only ghost of shelf & edge wear; not price clipped. * From the front jacket flap, ""....It is the testament of a woman who is at once profoundly a daughter of her ancestral China - she was born in Shanghai - and, equally, a child of the America where she was raised from age eight. It is the work of a writer who is known to millions of American as an acclaimed best-selling novelist; who is the wife of former American ambassador to China Winston Lord; who was herself present at the flowering of the ""China Spring"" of 1989; who is connected by numberless threads of family and circumstance to Chinese high and low, Communist and dissident, to former members of the scholar-gentry, to contemporary intellectuals, to heads of state and ordinary citizens.""

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Bookseller: Elk Creek Heritage Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: M000284
Title: Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic
Author: Lord, Bette Bao
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 0394583256
ISBN 13: 9780394583259
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf Inc
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1990
Keywords: China, China - Social life and customs, China - History - Tiananmen Square Incident 1989. Manners and customs
Bookseller catalogs: Sociology & Culture; History of Asia & China & Japan;

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