![]() On July 29, 1994, Qian Qian (as she was known as a girl) was seven years, five days old when she and her mother (Ma Ma) arrived from China to join her father (Ba Ba) in Brooklyn, New York. All four are memoirs of childhood trauma. Both Kingston’s and Wang’s are memoirs of a Chinese girlhood. I would add that Beautiful Country harkens to Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior with its “autobiographical accuracy, cultural authenticity, and ethnic representation.” * Yuan Shu, Director of Asian Studies, Texas Tech University. ![]() The author, Qian Julie Wang, said that she drew a lot of inspiration from Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Wang uses a quote by Angelou as her epigraph) and Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes. Beautiful Country already has been hailed as a “new classic” memoir. ![]()
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