*For the bibliography mentioned in the book, click here. A Thousand
Miles of Dreams is an evocative and intimate biography of two
Chinese sisters who took very different paths in their quests to be
independent women. Ling Shuhao arrived in Cleveland in 1925 to
study medicine in the middle of a U.S. crackdown on Chinese
immigrant communities, and her effort to assimilate began. She
became an American named Amy, while her sister Ling Shuhua burst
onto the Beijing literary scene as a writer of short fiction.
Shuhua's tumultuous affair with Virginia Woolf's nephew during his
years in China eventually drew her into the orbit of the Bloomsbury
group. The sisters were Chinese "modern girls" who sought to forge
their own way in an era of social revolution that unsettled
relations between men and women and among nations. Daughters of an
imperial scholar-official and a concubine, they followed
trajectories unimaginable to their parents' generation. Biographer
Sasha Su-Ling Welland stumbled across their remarkable stories
while recording her grandmother's oral history. She discovered the
secret Amy had jealously hidden from family in the United States
her sister's fame as a Chinese woman writer as well as intriguing
discrepancies between the sisters' versions of the past. Shaped by
the social history of their day, the journeys of these
extraordinary women spanned the twentieth century and three
continents in a saga of East-West cultural exchange and personal
struggle. Visit the author's website for more information and
upcoming events. http: //www.sashawelland.com/index.html"
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