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Kültür Devrimi'nin Çin ruhu üzerindeki etkileri hakkında Çin'den pek çok anı geldi. Bu dikkat çekici ve kolay okunur kitap benim favorilerimden biri.

Bu kitap, annelerini kaybeden kadınlarla yapılan yüzlerce röportajı temel almaktadır. Bu derin dokunaklı kitapta paylaşılan hikayeler kalbe dokunuyor. Kadınlar annelerinin ölümünden sonra sonsuza dek değişmektedir. Son deneyimlerimden konuşuyorum. Şahsen, bu dünyada annemizi kaybeden bir çocuktan daha kötü bir şey olmadığını hissediyorum, ne kadar yaşlı olsak da. 71 Haziran'daki harika Annemi 2 Haziran 2002'de büyük bir kalp krizine kaybettim. Onu ne kadar özlediğimi ifade edemiyorum! Kalbimde annem olmadan asla aynı olmayacağımı biliyorum. Bir parçam onunla öldü.

Herkes için okumak gerekir. Biraz zamanımı aldı ama buna değer. Bir kişinin bir fark yaratabileceğini gösteriyor.

The book essentializes race as the salient factor to define a particularly vicious form of authoritarian parenting. However, the book is really more about a culture of parenting known in the research literature as "music moms" than it is truly about Chinese parenting. Of course, it's a mass-market memoir and not a scholarly treatise, so I suppose readers are meant to forgive the obnoxious degree of stereotyping of Western and Chinese parenting, but since it's written by a well-published scholar who should know better than to deploy Ann Coulter-style rhetoric (of course, Ann Coulter should know better, too, but that's another story), Chua shouldn't be given a free pass to complain about "overprivileged Western children" in one chapter then spend a nearly page-long paragraph in another rattling off all of the countries she took her children to visit before they were 12. It's a very small percentage of parents - Western or non-Western - that can invest as much time, money and emotion into molding their children into prodigious classical musicians ... or that would frankly want to do so in the first place. Progressive educators and parents, know thy enemy and read this book.

Ok, honestly, at times while I was reading this I found myself confused or overwhelmed by unfamiliar, foreign-sounding words and names. However, I really enjoyed this book, the most so for its incredibly creative premise. Sure, other stories have been written with the whole dual-city setting, such as Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere and Miéville's own Un Lun Dun, but never before has the idea been such an exercise in imagination, in unfathomable co-existence and simultaneous mutual-denial. I loved the way that reading this story made my brain stretch a bit, and as I walked or drove around in my own city, I tried to imagine what a life would be like with each day characterized by a socialized selective un-seeing of half of what is around me. Mind boggling! I couldn't really say why, but I liked this story's protagonist immensely. In some ways he was a bit of a blank spot, perhaps some would describe him as being un- or under-developed by the author. However, I found myself projecting traits onto him with my imagination. Ultimately, the construction of the story and its final section made me realize how intentional the character development of the protagonist was. Miéville is a savvy writer and he wouldn't just create a sort of gray, blank-ish character out of laziness or lack of skill. No, I am convinced that Miéville has the genius of being both a big picture guy and a details man, simultaneously. Having previously read and enjoyed Un Lun Dun, reading this book has reinforced my desire to consume and enjoy more of Miéville's work.

I read the unpublished version of this story. It's a beautiful story and one of the best story I've ever read. An amazing story about love and forgiveness. I'm so glad this story is getting published and I can't wait to read this published version.