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Shawna Yang Ryan

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Jun 05, 2021 Rusalka rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: asia, tourist-atw, around-the-world, historical-fiction, migrants-diaspora-other, states, family-sagas, random-atw-challenge-2021, ylto-museums

This book highlighted two things to me:
1. I have been taught absolutely nothing about the history of Taiwan.
2. This book really pointed out my western democracy privilege.

The story tells of a girl who was born on the day that civil unrest started in Taiwan in 1947, and then of her family from that point onward through to 2003. It tells of the problems that Taiwan had from being colonised by Japan, to being taken back by China, then the nationalist movement which was rejecting the mainland China ...more

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Nov 28, 2017 Rachel rated it liked it

Shelves: human-suffering, takes-me-somewhere-else, set-in-1970s, communism, asia-eurasia, set-in-1960s, historical-fiction, contemporary, american-authors, set-in-1950s

Author: Shawna Yang Ryan is a Taiwanese American author, born in the USA.

The story is set in Taiwan and begins with the narrator's birth, on the night of an uprising and massacre in Taipei in 1947. Her father, the hardworking and idealistic Dr Tsai is arrested and imprisoned, although the family believe him to be dead. Eleven years later, he returns, a changed man. The story follows the ripple effect of these events through the family. In the second part of the book the daughter migrates to Amer ...more

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