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Title Daughter of Heaven: A Memoir with Earthly Recipes / Leslie Li.
Author Li, Leslie, 1945-
Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., 2011.
©2011
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Summary The powerful yet touching memoir of a Chinese-American woman and her grandmother by an extraordinarily talented author who has been compared to Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston. Leslie Li belongs to the illustrious Li family of Guilin, China. Her paternal grandfather, Li Zongren, was China's first elected vice president, to whom Chiang Kai-shek left control of the country when he fled to Formosa. Leslie's father was studying in the US when he met and married her American-born mother.
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Subject Li, Leslie, 1945- -- Childhood and youth.
Li, Leslie, 1945- -- Family.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage.
Cooking, Chinese.
Chinese American women -- Biography.
Grandmothers -- New York (State) -- New York.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York.
Grandparent and child -- New York (State) -- New York.
Chinese American families -- New York (State) -- New York.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Genre Electronic books.
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Related To Print version: Li, Leslie, 1945- Daughter of heaven. New York : Arcade Pub., c2005. 1559707682 (DLC) 2004023452
ISBN 9781611455519 (e-pub)
Standard No. 9781611455519
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