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Denise Chong

    Denise Chong is celebrated as a writer and commentator on Canadian history and the family. Her best-known work, inspired by a journey to her mother's ancestral village, delves into the lives of her grandmother and mother within Canada's Chinatowns. The book unearths hidden histories and tells the stories of family members who navigated tumultuous events in China. Her writing celebrates the contributions of immigrants to Canada and has inspired other authors to explore their own family histories.

    Denise Chong
    Vejce na Maovi
    De dochters van de concubine
    The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War
    • Vejce na Maovi

      • 283 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Příběh obyčejného muže, který zneuctil ikonu a odhalil pravou tvář diktatury. Když jednoho květnového dne roku 1981 autobusový mechanik Lu Decheng, jeho přítel, výtvarný redaktor Yu Dongyue, a učitel Yu Zhijian zosnují komplot proti čínskému režimu, netuší, že se právě vepsali zlatým písmem do moderních čínských dějin. Jejich barvou napuštěná vejce, která dolétnou na portrét Mao Ce-tunga na pekingském náměstí Tiananmen, roztočí kolotoč událostí, při nichž bude jeho protagonistům ještě mnohokrát tuhnout krev v žilách. Vejce totiž nezasáhla jen Maovu podobiznu, ale samou podstatu lidského zla, ztělesněného čínským politickým systémem zrozeným z touhy po moci. Zatímco si za svůj donkichotský čin odpykávají mnohaletý trest ve vězení, čínská diktatura dál chrlí oheň a síru a chrání svůj neposkvrněný štít. Denise Chongová, čínsko-kanadská autorka a držitelka řady literárních cen, předkládá čtenářům románové zpracování skutečného příběhu obyčejných mužů, kteří odhalili pravou tvář režimu.

      Vejce na Maovi2010
      3.5
    • On June 8, 1972, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, severely burned by napalm, ran from her blazing village in South Vietnam and into the eye of history. Her photograph - one of the most unforgettable images of the twentieth century - was seen around the world and helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War.This book is the story of how that photograph came to be - and the story of what happened to that girl after the camera shutter closed. Award-winning biographer Denise Chong's portrait of Kim Phuc - who eventually defected to Canada and is now a UNESCO spokesperson - is a rare look at the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese point-of-view and one of the only books to describe everyday life in the wake of this war and to probe its lingering effects on all its participants.

      The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War2001
      4.0
    • The Concubine’s Children is the story of a family cleaved in two for the sake of a father’s dream. There’s Chan Sam, who left an "at home" wife in China to earn a living in "Gold Mountain"—North America. There’s May-ying, the wilful, seventeen-year-old concubine he bought, sight unseen, who labored in tea houses of west coast Chinatowns to support the family he would have in Canada, and the one he had in China. It was the concubine’s third daughter, the author’s mother, who unlocked the past for her daughter, whose curiosity about some old photographs ultimately reunited a family divided for most of the last century.

      De dochters van de concubine1994
      3.8