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Fiction. Asian Studies. BUTTERFLY TEARS is a collection of
seventeen pieces of short fiction that depict the experiences of
Chinese immigrant women facing the challenges of life in a new
country. The stories are set in different parts of China, Canada,
and to a lesser extent in the United States and examine Chinese
women's cross-cultural experiences in North America as well as
women's issues and political discrimination in China. The stories,
or parts of stories, set in China give the reader interesting
glimpses into events such as the cultural revolution and Mao's
death.The immigrant experience, the predominant theme, encompasses
a number of aspects ranging from issues such as language and food
to education. Feminism and changing male/female relationships form
another important theme that also runs through many of the stories.
Fiction. Asian American Studies. THE LONG ROAD HOME is the story of
three generations of women, beginning with a grandmother who as a
young woman went to China as a Canadian missionary nurse and fell
in love with a Chinese medical student acting as her interpreter.
Shortly after anti-western sentiment sends her home to Nova Scotia,
she discovers she is pregnant. Attempts by her, and later their
daughter, to contact him fail. Her daughter, Meihua, goes to China
to look for her father and winds up marrying a Chinese man and
teaching art. The cultural revolution sees her sent to prison as a
American spy and anti-revolutionary, and her husband confined to a
gulag. Their children, still at home, are raised by the family's
illiterate servant, Yao. Yao's crude manner and resourcefulness
partly shield Yezi, Meihua's daughter, and the novel's main
character, as well as her brother, from family tragedy, poverty and
political discrimination, negotiating their survival during the
revolution that she barely understands. Only after her mother is
released, does Yezi learns about her foreign grandmother, Agnes,
who now lives in Boston and has lost contact with the family since
Yezi's birth. Curious about her American ancestry, Yezi decides to
join her grandmother in the U.S. Reading her grandmother's diaries
helps Yezi get to know her grandmother as a young Canadian
missionary and her life in China with the man who is her
grandfather, and who her mother still longs to find.
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