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A Thousand Pieces of Gold: Growing Up Through China's Proverbs (2002)

af Adeline Yen Mah

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The author of the international bestsellers Watching the Tree and Falling Leaves has always been fascinated by proverbs and their importance and use in China. Both her book titles are based on such proverbs. The majority of Chinese proverbs are drawn from the 1st century, when the First King of all China established his leadership over the whole country and its warring kingdoms. In ancient China, a scholar's conversation would be studded with appropriate sayings, and a man's status in society would be defined by his use and knowledge of proverbs. In modern China, much of this is still true, and proverbs are used daily. Adeline Yen Mah introduces us to the whole rich picture of the first century BC when after the long wars between states, China was finally united and the richness of the literature and art could flourish. She portrays the leaders, the plots and the counter-revolutions with great vividness and liveliness so that even those ignorant of Chinese history become absorbed. And as in all her other books, she relates the historical episodes and the proverbs derived from these to experiences in her own life. One of the major expressions of this age was of course the First King's tomb with its terracotta soldiers, of horses and carriages and the stones of the building. The re-finding of this monument - now open to us all - and Adeline Yen Mah's own experiences there, are extraordinary. A Thousand Pieces of Gold, following Watching the Tree and Falling Leaves, is a personal account by a much loved author, but it is also a lively history of the fascinating period of civilisation when Europe was barely out of the stone age.… (mere)
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A Thousand Pieces of Gold is a unique memoir that highlights various Chinese proverbs and uses the history of China to show how the proverb came into use; Adeline Yen Mah adds a personal touch to this by showing how that proverb relates to every day life by relating it to her own personal experience. I feel like this book is everything at once. It is informative and poignant and so beautifully crafted.

I am in awe of Yen Mah’s ability to weave together such different stories into something seamless and absolutely riveting. This is a unique way to tell a story, and I was riveted from cover to cover. Even though I’d read her earlier memoir, Chinese Cinderella, I found that viewing her story through the lenses of the different proverbs she chooses to highlight put those stories in a new light. This has made me think that I need to read all of her works because of her abilities as a writer.

If you have any interest in Chinese history, proverbs, or Adeline Yen Mah’s story, you will love this book I highly recommend it.

Also posted on Purple People Readers. ( )
  sedelia | Apr 23, 2019 |
The author of 'Falling Leaves', the autobiography of a young woman growing up in China, interleaves her own story (much distilled) with that of the foundation of the Ch'in and Han Empires. It is an unlikely juxtaposition, but comes together as she relates the mixture of loving and poisonous relations within her own family (before and after the publication of 'Falling Leaves') to the stories of loyalty and betrayal in ancient Chinese history. using Chinese proverbs to illustrate both themes. The attention to detail is impressive, but the effort it calls upon from the reader is unrelenting - holding together in your head the family connections and threads of loyalty and obligation in a cast of hundreds. It would have been much less punishing if a break, and a summary and recap had been introduced half way through to allow the reader to put it down and pick it up again at least once on the way through. As it is it the reader might get some relief by pausing at each chapter and reviewing the names and events from each in Wikipedia, putting faces to names, and place-names on the map as it were. And it probably would be best to have 'Falling Leaves' under your belt before tackling this, although it's not essential. I didn't, but I had a point of reference in the childhood biographies of Han Suyin and many others. Highly recommended. ( )
  nandadevi | Dec 29, 2014 |
I got over half way through before giving up on this book. The long rambling chapters generally have little to do with the proverb they are supposed to be about. The author's favourite topics are her (admittedly horrific) family life as a child and how wonderful ancient China was.

She generally does manage to get back to her chosen proverb at the end of the chapter, just in time for a bit of moralizing. ( )
  MarthaJeanne | Dec 4, 2014 |
Another of the books by the author of Chinese Cinderella. I like this author so of course I recommend the book. You learn alot of history and proverbs in this one. ( )
  autumnesf | May 20, 2008 |
Yen Ma explains proverbs learned during her life with elements of her life and experience. ( )
  judye | May 19, 2007 |
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The author of the international bestsellers Watching the Tree and Falling Leaves has always been fascinated by proverbs and their importance and use in China. Both her book titles are based on such proverbs. The majority of Chinese proverbs are drawn from the 1st century, when the First King of all China established his leadership over the whole country and its warring kingdoms. In ancient China, a scholar's conversation would be studded with appropriate sayings, and a man's status in society would be defined by his use and knowledge of proverbs. In modern China, much of this is still true, and proverbs are used daily. Adeline Yen Mah introduces us to the whole rich picture of the first century BC when after the long wars between states, China was finally united and the richness of the literature and art could flourish. She portrays the leaders, the plots and the counter-revolutions with great vividness and liveliness so that even those ignorant of Chinese history become absorbed. And as in all her other books, she relates the historical episodes and the proverbs derived from these to experiences in her own life. One of the major expressions of this age was of course the First King's tomb with its terracotta soldiers, of horses and carriages and the stones of the building. The re-finding of this monument - now open to us all - and Adeline Yen Mah's own experiences there, are extraordinary. A Thousand Pieces of Gold, following Watching the Tree and Falling Leaves, is a personal account by a much loved author, but it is also a lively history of the fascinating period of civilisation when Europe was barely out of the stone age.

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