My Perilous Girlhood
In early 1941 , Yuan-tsung’s family moved to Chongqing, the wartime capital of the Nationalist government, where she attended the prestigious Nankai Middle School and went through the trials and discoveries of adolescence, though shadowed by war and byzantine domestic politics. This was also the time of her romantic and sexual awakening, though it took place in a vicarious manner. She accompanied her wealthy best friend, Edith Shen, to the latter’s tryst at the Peach-Blossom Grove. She acted as an intermediary for Edith, the school beauty queen, and her lover, a role that earned her a place in one of Chongqing’s most elegant mansions.
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2019 ◽
Vol 4
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pp. 1327-1336
2019 ◽
Vol 50
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pp. 562-578
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Vol 20
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pp. 149-157
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2020 ◽
Vol 14
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pp. 415-432
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