Bad Bad Girl

My mother had died, but still I heard her voice... Growing up in an affluent neighbourhood in 1930s Shanghai, Loo Shu-hsin is told that it is 'no good for a girl to be smart' - and yet when rumours of the revolution reach their enclave, she is the one sent abroad for an education. In New York, she meets Chao-Pei, a Chinese engineering student, and they set out to make a life together. By the time their daughter - Gish Jen - is born, her parents have only sporadic contact with their families, who are locked in repressive Maoist China. And in her struggle to discipline her American daughter, Loo Shu-hsin finds herself repeating the punishing refrains - 'Bad bad girl! You don't know how to talk!' - that punctured her own childhood. Bad Bad Girl is a compelling exploration of a mother's life in exile from one of America's finest: Jen, Gish,author Contributors: Jen, Gish,author Binding: paperback Publication Date: Release Date: Languages: English,Published,English,Original Language Edition: 1 Published/Release Date: 2 Jul 2026 Bic Classification: Memoirs, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features bicCode: Format: Paperback / softback Publisher/Studio/Brand: Granta Books Author/Director/Artist: Gish Jen Dimension (cm): 194x126x22 mm Package Dimension (cm): 31x194x128 mm Item Weight (g): 0 Package Weight (g): 240