Anchee Min
Anchee Min
Anchee Min or Min Anqiis a Chinese-American author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai. Min has published two memoirs, Red Azalea and The Cooked Seed: A Memoir, and six historical novels. Her fiction emphasizes strong female characters, such as Jiang Qing, the wife of chairman Mao Zedong, and Empress Dowager Cixi, the last ruling empress of China...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth14 January 1957
CountryChina
good-luck tree luck
The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree
english understood
I understood that without English I would never get far, so my dream was to become a receptionist, and so I started to learn English from watching 'Sesame Street.'
anyone came girls magazine seen smile women worry
When I first came to America, you know, I would look at the newsstands and see the women on the magazine covers. I had never seen anyone smile the way these girls smile! It's like they have nothing to worry about!
business course crucial license though written
Of course I have the license to make up things, but I think a lot of what's written about China is misleading, and most Americans don't know much about China, in-depth, even though China is such a crucial business partner, rival, whatever.
There are a lot of things that immigrants, especially Chinese-Americans, want to share with their children, but there are a lot of things they don't want to share.
giving-up thinking giving
I think about giving up. I almost do.
memories loneliness struggle
My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles that had been met with tears. The long sleepless nights, the loneliness that cloaked my spirit and turned me into a true ghost.
mother morning autumn
my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin.
men long brain
Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and somehow managed by the power of his wayward brain to lay hold upon millions of human lives!
kind prisoner command
I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself.
parent pairs harmony
My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony.
community chinese matter
No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.
children self america
The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.
art luxury able
To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.