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A Thousand Pieces of Gold : Growing Up Through China's Proverbs
A Thousand Pieces of Gold Growing Up Through China's Proverbs
Author: Adeline Yen Mah
A Thousand Pieces of Gold is a cultural memoir as well as a personal account of China's past, illustrated by proverbs taken from a fascinating period of history when China was ruled by the First Emperor, Qin Shihuang (259?210 B.C.E.), the sovereign who united China, built the Great Wall, and standardized the Chinese language. — New York Times bes...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780060006396
ISBN-10: 0060006390
Pages: 272
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Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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A really intertesting history of the First Emperor and the weeks af5ter his reign. this part from Sima Qians Shiji ( history of early China) and interspersed with the meaning of chinese proverbs that came out of the time ( 2nd Cent BCE. She then gives notations of how they apply in her own life and history which also is most interesting.
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