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Chinese New Year Sale: Journey Across the Four Seas
Journey Across the Four Seas: A Chinese Woman's Search for Home
Happy Chinese New Year! Journey Across the Four Seas is on sale for $0.99 Feb. 17, Tuesday, through Feb. 19, Thursday. The book, a memoir of my mother’s life, is about the Chinese cultural values on family and education.
Ancient China was called a family state. It was an agricultural society, where people worked the land and never moved away. If you were born in a place, you lived your whole life in that place. Your family kept on growing and growing until it became a village and then a state. The family was everything to a person. It provided education, employment, protection, insurance—everything a person needed in his lifetime.
The Chinese emphasis on education started about 2,000 years ago, when the imperial exam system was established. Any male, regardless of wealth and social status, was allowed to participate. It was the only way for a person to change his station in life. The exams were grueling and went on for days, but a person who passed them became an official of the imperial court. He brought wealth and glory to himself, his family and his entire village.
I wish everyone a wonderful year of the sheep, hopefully a gentle and calm year!
Happy Chinese New Year! Journey Across the Four Seas is on sale for $0.99 Feb. 17, Tuesday, through Feb. 19, Thursday. The book, a memoir of my mother’s life, is about the Chinese cultural values on family and education.
Ancient China was called a family state. It was an agricultural society, where people worked the land and never moved away. If you were born in a place, you lived your whole life in that place. Your family kept on growing and growing until it became a village and then a state. The family was everything to a person. It provided education, employment, protection, insurance—everything a person needed in his lifetime.
The Chinese emphasis on education started about 2,000 years ago, when the imperial exam system was established. Any male, regardless of wealth and social status, was allowed to participate. It was the only way for a person to change his station in life. The exams were grueling and went on for days, but a person who passed them became an official of the imperial court. He brought wealth and glory to himself, his family and his entire village.
I wish everyone a wonderful year of the sheep, hopefully a gentle and calm year!
