Tag Archives: culture and heritage

Memoir of art, music, history, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Posted on January 29, 2017 by moonbridgebooks

I was astonished to learn of her past. An unassuming aquaintance, Fangfang Xu, recently published her family memoir, Galloping Horses:  Artist Xu Beihong and His Family During Mao’s China. She did tell me her father was called the “father of … Continue reading →

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Lights Out – a memoir of life in Cuba before and during Fidel Castro

Posted on November 27, 2016 by moonbridgebooks

Fidel Castro is dead. I can’t say RIP. Coincidentally, I just finished reading Lights Out:  A Cuban Memoir of Betrayal and Survival by Dania Rosa Nasca. Dania spent her childhood in Cuba under Castro and despises him for what he … Continue reading →

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War brides: the untold story

Posted on September 25, 2016 by moonbridgebooks

War brides. They were out there, often alone in a world of white, figuring out how to fit in. In my Japanese mother’s case, she was in the midst of Midwestern cornfields raising children who were the only non-white bread … Continue reading →

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