Time to brush off a classic:
Book 1: Chinese women escape to Beautiful Country to be liberated by noble white men from the Asian patriarchy.
Book 2: Grandmas escape slums of New York from being shoved onto subway tracks and beaten in the streets?
Alt Book 2 idea: white women get to explore their ancient history by dining at their local PF Chang’s.
The author is who'd you'd expect:
Book 1: Chinese women escape to Beautiful Country to be liberated by noble white men from the Asian patriarchy.
Book 2: Grandmas escape slums of New York from being shoved onto subway tracks and beaten in the streets?
Alt Book 2 idea: white women get to explore their ancient history by dining at their local PF Chang’s.
The author is who'd you'd expect:
She never lived in China at any point in her life and her father and brother died when she was young, so she had literally zero reference on what Chinese men or the revolution were actually like. Yes, definitely a bonafide China expert here.One of the things that stood out to me even back then was that the author admitted that she wanted to be white so bad that as a child she would use clothespins to make her nose wider so her nostrils were visible, and other things that made her look more caucasian.
