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Li, Leslie Denise was born on November 21, 1945 in New York City. Daughter of Youlin and Genevieve (Louie) Li.
( The powerful yet touching memoir of a Chinese-American ...)
The powerful yet touching memoir of a Chinese-American woman and her grandmother by an extraordinarily talented author who has been compared to Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston. Leslie Li belongs to the illustrious Li family of Guilin, China. Her paternal grandfather, Li Zongren, was China's first elected vice president, to whom Chiang Kai-shek left control of the country when he fled to Formosa. Leslie's father was studying in the US when he met and married her American-born mother.
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(The powerful yet touching memoir of a Chinese-American wo...)
The powerful yet touching memoir of a Chinese-American woman and her grandmother by an extraordinarily talented author who has been compared to Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston. Leslie Li belongs to the illustrious Li family of Guilin, China. Her paternal grandfather, Li Zongren, was China's first elected vice president, to whom Chiang Kai-shek left control of the country when he fled to Formosa. Leslie's father was studying in the US when he met and married her American-born mother.
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( In this powerful, touching memoir of a critically accl...)
In this powerful, touching memoir of a critically acclaimed Chinese-American writer, taste becomes the keeper of memory and food the keeper of culture when Nai-nai, her extraordinary grandmother, arrives from mainland China. Leslie Li’s paternal grandfather, Li Zogren, was China’s first democratically elected vice president, to whom Chiang Kai-shek left control of the country when he fled to Formosa in 1949. Nine years later, Li’s wife, Nai-nai, comes to live with her son’s family in New York City, bringing a whole new world of sights, smells, and tastes as she quickly takes control of the kitchen. Nai-nai’s tantalizingly exotic cooking opens up the heart and mind of her American granddaughter to her Chinese heritage—and to the world. Through her grandmother’s traditional cuisine Leslie bridges the cultural divide in an America in which she is a minority—as well as the growing gap at home between her rigid, traditional Chinese father and her progressive American-born mother. Interspersed throughout her intimate and moving memoir are the author’s personal recipes, most from Nai-nai’s kitchen, that add a delicious dimension to the work. A loving ode to family and food, Daughter of Heaven is an exquisite blend of memory, history, and the senses.
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Li, Leslie Denise was born on November 21, 1945 in New York City. Daughter of Youlin and Genevieve (Louie) Li.
Bachelor, University Michigan, 1967.
Creator Taoist writing workshop, facilitator The Writers Voice of Young Men’s Christian Association, New York City, 1999-2000, New York Open Center, New York City, 1998-2001, Paris Writers Workshop, 2001. Lecturer Asia Society, Smithsonian Institution, Barnard College, Bowdoin College.
( In this powerful, touching memoir of a critically accl...)
( The powerful yet touching memoir of a Chinese-American ...)
(The powerful yet touching memoir of a Chinese-American wo...)
1 child, Anton Heinrich.