The Resource Secret of a thousand beauties, Mingmei Yip
Secret of a thousand beauties, Mingmei Yip
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The item Secret of a thousand beauties, Mingmei Yip represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Secret of a thousand beauties, Mingmei Yip represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- "Spring Swallow was promised in marriage while still in her mother's belly. When the groom dies before a wedding can take place, seventeen-year-old Spring Swallow is ordered to become a ghost bride to appease his spirit. Under her in-laws' protection, she will be little more than a servant, unable to know real love or bear children. Refusing to accept her fate as a "bad-luck woman", Spring Swallow flees on her wedding day. In the city of Soochow, Spring Swallow joins a community of renowned embroiderers. The women work for Aunty Peony, whose exquisite stitching once earned her the Emperor's love. But when Aunty Peony agrees to replicate a famous painting -- a lucrative assignment that will take a year to complete -- betrayal and jealousy emerge within the group. Spring Swallow becomes entangled in each woman's story of heartbreak, even while she embarks on a dangerous affair with a young revolutionary. On a journey that leads from the remote hillsides around Soochow to cosmopolitan Peking, Spring Swallow draws on the secret techniques learned from Aunty Peony and her own indomitable strength, determined to forge a life that is truly her own"--Back cover
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Secret of a thousand beauties
- Title
- Secret of a thousand beauties
- Statement of responsibility
- Mingmei Yip
- Subject
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- Embroidery -- Fiction
- trueRevolutionaries
- trueRunaways
- Women
- trueWomen -- Social conditions
- trueYoung women
- 1912 - 1949
- trueArranged marriage
- China
- China -- History -- 1928-1937 -- Fiction
- trueChina -- History -- 20th century
- China -- Social life and customs -- 1912-1949 -- Fiction
- China -- Women -- Fiction
- trueEmbroidery
- Embroidery
- trueFamily secrets
- trueFiances -- Death
- Fiction
- Manners and customs
- trueMen/women relations
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Spring Swallow was promised in marriage while still in her mother's belly. When the groom dies before a wedding can take place, seventeen-year-old Spring Swallow is ordered to become a ghost bride to appease his spirit. Under her in-laws' protection, she will be little more than a servant, unable to know real love or bear children. Refusing to accept her fate as a "bad-luck woman", Spring Swallow flees on her wedding day. In the city of Soochow, Spring Swallow joins a community of renowned embroiderers. The women work for Aunty Peony, whose exquisite stitching once earned her the Emperor's love. But when Aunty Peony agrees to replicate a famous painting -- a lucrative assignment that will take a year to complete -- betrayal and jealousy emerge within the group. Spring Swallow becomes entangled in each woman's story of heartbreak, even while she embarks on a dangerous affair with a young revolutionary. On a journey that leads from the remote hillsides around Soochow to cosmopolitan Peking, Spring Swallow draws on the secret techniques learned from Aunty Peony and her own indomitable strength, determined to forge a life that is truly her own"--Back cover
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- 10390010
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
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- Yip, Mingmei
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- Embroidery
- Embroidery
- Manners and customs
- Women
- China
- China
- China
- China
- Label
- Secret of a thousand beauties, Mingmei Yip
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1069565
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 300 pages
- Isbn
- 9781617733215
- Isbn Type
- (Paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781617733215
- (OCoLC)871671200
- Label
- Secret of a thousand beauties, Mingmei Yip
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1069565
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 300 pages
- Isbn
- 9781617733215
- Isbn Type
- (Paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781617733215
- (OCoLC)871671200
Subject
- Embroidery -- Fiction
- trueRevolutionaries
- trueRunaways
- Women
- trueWomen -- Social conditions
- trueYoung women
- 1912 - 1949
- trueArranged marriage
- China
- China -- History -- 1928-1937 -- Fiction
- trueChina -- History -- 20th century
- China -- Social life and customs -- 1912-1949 -- Fiction
- China -- Women -- Fiction
- trueEmbroidery
- Embroidery
- trueFamily secrets
- trueFiances -- Death
- Fiction
- Manners and customs
- trueMen/women relations
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