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The novel is a saga of three generations of women, a grandmother who as a young woman went to China as a Canadian missionary nurse and who falls in love with a Chinese doctor who acts as her interpreter. Shortly after anti-western sentiment sends her home in a hurry she discovers she is... read more
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Summary edit
The Long March Home is a saga of three generations of women. Agnes, a young Canadian goes to China as a missionary from the United Church of Canada and falls in love with a Chinese medical student. Growing anti-western sentiment forces her return to home to Nova Scotia, where she discovers she... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters/People edit
- Yezi Wei: The granddaughter who was born to a mixed-race family at the beginning of the Cultural Revoluton in 1966
- Meihua Wei whose American name is Mayflora Willlard: The mother, a Eurasian, went to China to look for her birthfather in 1948
- Agnes MicMillan: The grandmother, a Canadian missionary, who went to the West China Missiion in Chengdu in 1926
- Yao: The loyal maid who took care of the children when their parents were confined at the gulag
Setting & Locations edit
- Wolfviell, Nova Scotia: The place where Agnes, the grandmother, in the story, was born
- Boston, MA: The place where Meihua, the mother, was born
- Kunming, Yunnan Province: The place where, Yezi, the granddaughter, was born
First Sentence edit
The Long March Home by Zoë S. Roy: I’M HAVING A BABY! Meihua Wei was hoping for a girl; she already had two sons.
Table of Contents edit
Chapter 1--Nature's Course
Chapter 2--Dried Date Soup and Longan Nuts
Chapter 3--Workers' Propaganda Team
Chapter 4--Ideological Reform
Chapter 5--Discarded Napa Leaves
Chapter 6--Letter from Burma
Chapter 7--American Mongrel
Chapter 8--Wildcat Valley
Chapter 9--Anti-Revolutionary Slogan
Chapter 10Secret Hideout
Chapter 11-The Reading Room
Chapter 12-Mulbarry Leaves
Chapter 13-Family Enterprise
Chapter 14-Egg Tree
Chapter 15---3,000 Yuan
Chapter 16--Yuanmou Man
Chapter 17--Foreign Grandmother
Chapter 18--Sweet potato Congee
Chapter 19--Stone Forest
Chapter 20--Longan International Airport
Chapter 21--Gong Fu Man
Chapter 22--A Skeleton for Christmas
Chapter 23--Umbrella Shaped Elm
Chapter 24--The Red Line
Chapter 25--White Pagoda Street
Chapter 26--Buddha's Glory
Chapter 27--An Endless Ocean Apart
Chapter 28--The Long March Home
Authors & Contributors edit
- Zoë S. Roy (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Country: Canada
Publication Date: Nov. 2011
ISBN: 9781926708270
Page Count: 272
Publisher: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Country: Canada
Publication Date: Nov. 2011
ISBN: 9781926708270
Page Count: 272
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