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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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December 17, 2011
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Ferina
Jul 12, 2007 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fiction, myfavorite
Membaca buku ini, membuat saya bersyukur bahwa saya hidup di jaman ketika perempuan dihargai hak-hak dan pikirannya, didengarkan perasaan dan keinginannya. Snow Flower sedikit banyak memberi gambaran sebuah sejarah Cina di abad 19, ketika perempuan harus menjalani berbagai tradisi yang membatasi mereka sebagai manusia.

Lily, seorang anak perempuan dari keluarga miskin, dalam usia belia harus menjalani tradisi pengikatan kaki untuk mendapatkan bentuk kaki bunga lili yang sempurna. Kaki yang kecil
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Lisa (Harmonybites)
I was drawn in by the portrait of the life of Chinese woman in the 19th Century and the tale of the friendship of Lily and Snowflower. Back then, a daughter was seen as a "useless branch." As the narrator Lily puts it:

Even if our natal families love us, we are a burden to them. We marry into new families ... submit to the demands of our mothers-in-law. If we are lucky, we have sons and secure our positions.

Lily is born into a poor peasant family in 1823. She has an opportunity to rise in stand
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Sara
I had high hopes for this book when I chose it for our book club reading, however; after reading about the torture named "foot-binding" I knew I am not going to like this sad tale of Lily and Snow Flower.

The one thing that shines here is the content--the things we learn about the Chinese culture via See's story-telling. Otherwise, the story prose was flat and depressing.
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Neila
May 31, 2010 rated it it was amazing
This is a wonderful book about the relationship between two young girls in China during the days of bound feet. I enjoyed how the status of the girls changes again and again over time and how they learn how to live in their restrictive positions of being women in China at that time.
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