History of Chinese assimilation process into Javanese culture in Surakarta and biographies of Chinese individuals active in Javanese performing arts and culture, 1895 to 1998.
Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, it is an engrossing record of Mao's impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and …