{"publishers": ["Ve\u0301hicule Press", "Distributed by General Distribution Services"], "number_of_pages": 234, "subtitle": "a woman in Mao's China", "subject_place": ["China"], "covers": [1865198], "key": "/books/OL1475217M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL739627A"}], "publish_places": ["Montreal", "Don Mills, Ont"], "subject_time": ["1949-"], "pagination": "234 p. :", "source_records": ["ia:foxspiritwomanin0000zhan", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part23.utf8:1980452:860", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-003.mrc:321729091:1528", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.02.20150123.full.mrc:678565654:884", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_026.bib.mrc:212383945:1506"], "title": "Foxspirit", "identifiers": {"goodreads": ["1646842"]}, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "subjects": ["Zhang, Zhimei.", "Women -- China -- Biography.", "China -- Social life and customs -- 1949-", "China -- History -- 1949-"], "publish_date": "1992", "publish_country": "xxc", "by_statement": "Zhimei Zhang.", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL4009908W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "ocaid": "foxspiritwomanin0000zhan", "isbn_10": ["1550650254"], "lccn": ["93139526", "cn92090427"], "oclc_numbers": ["26256376"], "dewey_decimal_class": ["951.05/092", "B"], "lc_classifications": ["DS778.Z53 A3 1992"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "A reflective and intimate memoir in which Zhimei Zhang recounts her life as a woman shaped by the political and cultural upheavals of twentieth-century China. Blending personal narrative with social history, Zhang describes her childhood, her education, the pressures of Mao-era ideology, and the complex roles women were expected to play. Through vivid storytelling and thoughtful insight, she explores identity, resilience, and the quiet acts of survival that defined her generation. This edition offers a compelling portrait of a life lived between tradition and transformation."}, "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Reflecting on her early life, setting a quiet, introspective tone as she introduces the family circumstances and cultural environment that shaped her childhood."}, "latest_revision": 10, "revision": 10, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-05-29T23:35:44.441960"}}