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...worries that the job will interfere with his upcoming exams. Unlike his passionate professor, who suffered in the Cultural Revolution for declaring that Goethe was a great poet, Jian barely cares for literature, studying only so he can secure a place at Beijing University and join his fianc?, Meimei, who is Yang's daughter. His eyes are shut?and it's Yang's job to open them...
...which he lives. He's not the only one. While Jian sinks into depression, wondering whether he should bother sitting for his exams and doom himself to a barren life "as a clerk in a workshop", news of a student gathering in Beijing arrives through BBC radio broadcasts and Meimei's letters from the restive capital. Jian wants to stay out of it, but in the spring of 1989 that's impossible...
...this late date, there are no second families for women. A startling number of men in the class remarried in the '90s and had a fresh batch of children. Meimei Chang, who married for the first time in 1992 and thereby acquired grownup stepchildren, rightly considers herself to be "defying the odds that a woman over 45 could do so!" Far more numerous are the divorced women who never remarried. Or the surprising number who, sometimes without intending to, never married at all. "Marriage has continued to elude me," says Cynthia McClintock, who adopted a daughter anyway. Sharon Jean...
Adet, Anor and Meimei (16, 13 and 8) are the daughters of Lin Yutang (The Importance of Living), that hard-working and engaging Chinese exponent of the leisurely life. Says doll-like Meimei, who is spoiled and collects stamps: "Father told Adet and Anor to write some diary. Soon they began to write and it became very good, so Father told them that maybe it can be published." A Chinese equivalent of the Abbe children's travel diaries, Our Family is more charming, thanks to the contributions of tomboy Anor. Anor's family and travel observations, her Rats...
...Meimei, Adet, Anor...
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