[Englecturers] Lisa See at RCC Sept 23

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>Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:14:27 -0700
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>From: <Cynthia.Morrill at rcc.edu>
>To: <john.ganim at ucr.edu>
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>Hi John,
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>Here is the information about Lisa See for 
>forwarding to the English grad serv list. I 
>appreciate your help getting the word out.
>
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>What:
>Author Lisa See at RCC September 23
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>Who and When:
>Author Lisa See (Dragon Bones, On Gold Mountain) 
>will be on the Riverside City College campus on 
>Friday, September 23, to talk about her new 
>novel, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. The free 
>event is scheduled from 10 am-12:40 pm in the 
>Digital Library Auditorium. For more information 
>about See, visit her website at www.lisasee.com.
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>On Star Flower and the Secret Fan from Publishers Weekly
>Starred Review. See's engrossing novel set in 
>remote 19th-century China details the deeply 
>affecting story of lifelong, intimate friends 
>(laotong, or "old sames") Lily and Snow Flower, 
>their imprisonment by rigid codes of conduct for 
>women and their betrayal by pride and love. 
>While granting immediacy to Lily's voice, See 
>(Flower Net) adroitly transmits historical 
>background in graceful prose. Her in-depth 
>research into women's ceremonies and duties in 
>China's rural interior brings fascinating 
>revelations about arranged marriages, women's 
>inferior status in both their natal and married 
>homes, and the Confucian proverbs and myriad 
>superstitions that informed daily life. 
>Beginning with a detailed and heartbreaking 
>description of Lily and her sisters' foot 
>binding ("Only through pain will you have 
>beauty. Only through suffering will you have 
>peace"), the story widens to a vivid portrait of 
>family and village life. Most impressive is 
>See's incorporation of nu shu, a secret written 
>phonetic code among women­here between Lily and 
>Snow Flower­that dates back 1,000 years in the 
>southwestern Hunan province ("My writing is 
>soaked with the tears of my heart,/ An invisible 
>rebellion that no man can see"). As both a 
>suspenseful and poignant story and an absorbing 
>historical chronicle, this novel has bestseller 
>potential and should become a reading group favorite as well.
>Copyright © Reed Business Information, a 
>division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
>
>Where:
>Riverside Community College is located near 
>downtown Riverside, on the 4800 block of Magnolia Avenue.
>The Digital Library Auditorium is located in the 
>Digital Library’s lower level.
>Hourly parking is available in the lot next to 
>the RCC Digital Library (Magnolia and Ramona).
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>CONTACT:
>Cynthia Morrill: 951-222-8765
>cynthia.morrill at rcc.edu
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>Cynthia Morrill
>English and Speech Communications Department
>Riverside Community College
>4800 Magnolia Avenue, Riverside, CA 92506
>951-222-8765
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John M. Ganim
Professor of English
Department of English
University of California, Riverside
900 University Avenue
Riverside CA 92521
TEL (951) 827-1540
FAX (951) 827-3967
ON CAMPUS PHONE 21540
EMAIL John.Ganim at UCR.EDU

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