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Can I read Once upon a time in the East : a story of growing up on EtoBox?
Once upon a time in the East : a story of growing up by Xiaolu Guo is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Once upon a time in the East : a story of growing up about?
Ah, Xiaolu, you are so big now! Then I heard my grandmother speaking behind the woman, This is your mother, call her mother! I stared at the woman, perplexed. Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is six. They are strangers to her. When Xiaolu is born her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, and suffering from malnutrition on a diet of yam leaves, they leave Xiaolu with her illiterate grandparents in a fishing village on the East China Sea. Its a strange beginning. Like a Wild Swans for a new generation, Once Upon a Time in the East takes Xiaolu from a run-down shack to film school in a rapidly changing Beijing, navigating the everyday peculiarity of modern China: censorship, underground art, Western boyfriends. In 2002 she leaves Beijing on a scholarship to study in a picturesque British village. Now, after a decade in Europe, her tale of East to West resonates with the insight that can only come from someone who is both an outsider and at home. Xiaolu Guos extraordinary memoir is a handbook of life lessons. How to be an artist when censorship kills creativity and the only job you can get is writing bad telenovela scrip
Who reads Once upon a time in the East : a story of growing up?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Xiaolu Guo
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781473524309
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.06 / 5 (93 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13