CONTENTS
CONTENTS
IWherein Yen Kuei Ping turns off from the Big Horse Street to make purchases on the Street of Precious Pearls7IIWherein there is a wedding and Kuei Ping becomes a member of the family of Chia19IIIWherein there is a departure from family custom and Kuei Ping goes with her husband to live in Peking31IVWherein a son is born and there is great rejoicing41VWherein shadows throw their length across the tidy courtyard49VIWherein there is deepening sorrow55VIIWherein the heart of a woman is occupied with one desire61VIIIWherein Kuei Ping prepares for a pilgrimage65IXWherein there is patience and tenderness and understanding and a return to a little home village73XWherein twenty-seven slow years are added one upon another81XIWherein the narrator becomes Kuei Ping’s pupil and is filled with wondering questions and is witness to a dream come true in its threefold parts91