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Lisa See (born 18 February 1955) is an American writer and novelist. Her books include On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family (1995), a detailed account of See's family history, and the novels Flower Net (1997), The Interior (1999), Dragon Bones (2003), Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2005), Peony in Love (2007) and Shanghai Girls (2009), which made it to ...
Sissee See married architect Gilbert Leong; she first broached the family history to Lisa See in 1988, who began documenting it with the initial intent to send it out as a Christmas card for the rest of the family. [8] Lisa continued gathering stories from her family after Sissee's death: "[Sissee] had given it her blessing by doing the ...
Lisa See lives in Brentwood, but the novelist’s earliest memories are in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, where her father’s family owned one of the longest-running antique businesses in the city (F ...
Grandfather Tan and Grandmother Ru are trained physicians, and Ru decides to pass on her women's medicine to her granddaughter. Yunxian also forms a close friendship with Meiling Shi, the daughter of a local midwife, and is betrothed to Yang Maoren, the son of a prominent merchant family. When Yunxian is fifteen, she marries into the Yang family.
Jensen Huang and Lisa Su have a lot in common. The chief executives of Nvidia and AMD aren’t just two of the most powerful people in the global AI chip industry, they’re also family.The ...
Little did the prolific, 68-year-old author realize that would lead directly to one of her most meticulously researched, fascinating and ultimately enjoyable works, “Lady Tan’s Circle of Women.”
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a 2005 novel by Lisa See set in nineteenth-century China. In her introduction to the novel, See writes that Lily, the narrator, was born on June 5, 1824—"the fifth day of the sixth month of the third year of the Daoguang Emperor's reign". [1] The novel begins in 1903, when Lily is 80 years old.
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