Little Maid of China
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Page : 6 pages
File Size : 38,17 MB
Release : 1877
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Page : 6 pages
File Size : 38,17 MB
Release : 1877
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Author : J. L. Molloy
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 1877
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Author : Lenora Chu
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062367870
New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice; Real Simple Best of the Month; Library Journal Editors’ Pick In the spirit of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Bringing up Bébé, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a hard-hitting exploration of China’s widely acclaimed yet insular education system that raises important questions for the future of American parenting and education When students in Shanghai rose to the top of international rankings in 2009, Americans feared that they were being "out-educated" by the rising super power. An American journalist of Chinese descent raising a young family in Shanghai, Lenora Chu noticed how well-behaved Chinese children were compared to her boisterous toddler. How did the Chinese create their academic super-achievers? Would their little boy benefit from Chinese school? Chu and her husband decided to enroll three-year-old Rainer in China’s state-run public school system. The results were positive—her son quickly settled down, became fluent in Mandarin, and enjoyed his friends—but she also began to notice troubling new behaviors. Wondering what was happening behind closed classroom doors, she embarked on an exploratory journey, interviewing Chinese parents, teachers, and education professors, and following students at all stages of their education. What she discovered is a military-like education system driven by high-stakes testing, with teachers posting rankings in public, using bribes to reward students who comply, and shaming to isolate those who do not. At the same time, she uncovered a years-long desire by government to alleviate its students’ crushing academic burden and make education friendlier for all. The more she learns, the more she wonders: Are Chinese children—and her son—paying too high a price for their obedience and the promise of future academic prowess? Is there a way to appropriate the excellence of the system but dispense with the bad? What, if anything, could Westerners learn from China’s education journey? Chu’s eye-opening investigation challenges our assumptions and asks us to consider the true value and purpose of education.
Author : Amy E. Blanchard
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3849647609
"Christmas Classics" is proud to present you a carefully selected range of fiction and prose for the most beautiful time of the year. You can spot them easily by the red book cover and the golden bells in the middle. A story for little girls from eight to twelve
Author : Eleanora H. Stooke
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Art
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The speaker was Mrs. Holcroft, a pale-faced, dark-eyed woman of about thirty-five, with a slight figure, and a somewhat nervous manner. She had been six years a widow, and a snowy cap rested on her brown hair — hair that was streaked with white around her temples. Marigold, her little daughter, aged eleven, was seated at a corner of the square table that stood in the middle of the sitting-room, so engrossed in the story-book she was reading that she failed to grasp the sense of her mother's request, and looked up inquiringly. “What was that you said, mother?” she asked, turning a pair of thoughtful dark eyes upon her mother as she spoke, and carefully marking the place she was reading with a slip of paper before shutting her book, — “Something about the boys wasn't it...FROM THE BOOKS.
Author : Francis William Bourdillon
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Page : 38 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Children's poetry
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Author : Alice Curtis
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Connecticut
ISBN : 1557093288
In 1776 a young Connecticut girl, unaware that her hat box contains a mysterious package from a Tory prisoner, travels by stagecoach to visit her grandmother.
Author : Anna Qu
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1646220358
A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labor and self-worth that traces a Chinese immigrant's journey to an American future. As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers punishment for doing her homework at night. Her mother wants to teach her a lesson: she is Chinese, not American, and such is their tough path in their new country. But instead of acquiescing, Qu alerts the Office of Children and Family Services, an act with consequences that impact the rest of her life. Nearly twenty years later, estranged from her mother and working at a Manhattan start-up, Qu requests her OCFS report. When it arrives, key details are wrong. Faced with this false narrative, and on the brink of losing her job as the once-shiny start-up collapses, Qu looks once more at her life's truths, from abandonment to an abusive family to seeking dignity and meaning in work. Traveling from Wenzhou to Xi'an to New York, Made in China is a fierce memoir unafraid to ask thorny questions about trauma and survival in immigrant families, the meaning of work, and the costs of immigration.
Author : Clifton Bingham
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Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 1906
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Author : Alice Turner Curtis
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 1996-04
Category : Maryland
ISBN : 155709327X
Living in Maryland during the time of the colonies' rebellion against England, Barbara Anne accidentally learns some secrets of the American patriots.