was ida pruitt s biography of ning lao t ai t ai representative of the typical chinese woman
Was Ida Pruitt’s biography of Ning Lao T’ai T’ai representative of the typical Chinese woman?
Include two following books and two following movies to support the argument
BOOKS
Rhoads Murphey, East Asia: A New History, 5th Edition, (Pearson/Longman, 2009). ISBN10: 0205695221.
T.R. Reid, Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West, (Vintage, 2000). IBSN-10: 0679777601.
Katsu Kokichi, translated by Teruko Craig, Musui’s Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai, (University of Arizona Press, 1991). ISBN: 0816512566.
Ning Lao T’ai-T’ai and Ida Pruitt, A Daughter of Han: Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman, (Stanford University Press, 1990). ISBN: 0804706069.
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MOVIES
The Funeral 1984, directed by Juzo Itami
The Family Game 1983, directed by Yoshimitsu Morita
The Meiji Revolution
Raise the Red Lantern
Young & Restless in China
