"Chinese go through life wearing masks: the ones that tradition decrees; the ones that society decrees; and, since Liberation, the ones that the Party decrees." LEGACIES is the testament of a woman who is at once profoundly a daughter of her ancestral China and equally a child of America. Speakers who are identified only by tags like "actress," "joker" or "peasant" share their feelings and memories with her. We see a surreal society where one day's solid ground is the next day's quicksand. Only the astonishing Chinese could have produced it...or borne it! "Bette Bao Lord's stunning collection of oral histories is the work of an expert.
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