Ancient+China

= China - History =

Emily B
 * [[image:http://syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780060276928%20%28trade/LC.JPG width="191" height="240"]] || **__ The Dragon’s Child __** ||
 * ^  || ** Author Laurence Yep ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: This book The Dragon’s Child was about Yep Gim Lew, an average Chinese boy who lived in China. His life was normal until his father came home and that’s when everything changed for him. Yep Gim Lew had to go to America with his father and he didn’t want to. His father ,born in San Francisco made Yep get the things he would need for San Francisco.Yep Gim Lew had to study and to make it to America because if not he would be sent home. But in the end he makes it and starts his new life in America. ||
 * **Rating**: || **Historical note**: Angel Island is known as “The Guardian of the Western Gate”. It was designed to control the flow of the Chinese; which was then unwelcomed guests by the law in 1882. Angel Island was then like a detention center for the Chinese trying to get to the Golden Mountain. ||
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 * || **Review**: Some things that I liked about this book was that it tells you about china a long time ago. Also how hard the immigration was in that time and to pass the test to get into America . ||
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|| **__ Bound __** ||
 * ^  || ** Author: Donna Jo Napoli ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: This book Bound is about a girl named XingXing whose mother and father have both died and now she lives with her stepmother and stepsister Wei Ping. XingXing is forced to take care of Wei Ping because her feet are bound and she can barley walk. Then XingXing’s stepmother decided to not find a husband for XingXing only Wei Ping. But when there is a cave festival XingXing sneaks out and loses a shoe! When the price buys the shoe he decides he was going to marry whoever fit the shoe. So he goes around and gets everyone to try on the shoe, when he gets to XingXing and it fits her, He marrys her! ||
 * **Rating**:[[image:four_stars.jpg]] || **Historical note**: Girls in ancient China bound there feet as a sig of beauty. They started the process at a very young age. Foot binding was banned in 1912 but some people still bound there feet, but kept it a secret. ||
 * **Reviewed by**: Marina Rowe


 * Class**: Mrs. Hampton ||^  ||
 * || **Review**: I liked that they had XingXing’s mothers reincarnation as a fish that lived in a river near there home. ||
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 * [[image:http://syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=0689861753/LC.JPG width="155" height="225"]] || **__ Bound __** ||
 * ^  || ** Author Donna Jo Napoli ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: The story Bound is about a girls named Xing Xing, whose mother and father died when she was young. After her parent died she has to live with her stepmother and stepsister. Xing Xing is forced to take care of her stepmother and stepsister. Her stepsister Wei Ping has he feet bound. Stepmother is always looking for a husband for Wei Ping, but not Xing Xing. One day Xing Xing lost her shoe! The prince found her shoe and went around to every girl trying to figure out who it belonged to. He found out that it belonged to Xing Xing and gave it back to her. In the end the prince and Xing Xing got married. ||
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|| **Historical note**: -Ancient China is the oldest surviving civilization which began about 500,000 years ago - Girls in Ancient China had their feet bound as a sign of beauty - Foot binding was banned in the early 1900 hundreds, but some people still do it ||
 * **Reviewed by**: Amanda K.


 * Class**: Mrs. Hampton ||^  ||
 * || **Review**: I liked the book Bound because it was like a Cinderella story, but based in Ancient China ||
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-in the beginning foot binding was only done to court ladies and other aristocratic women Normal women didn’t start having their feet bound until around the Song Dynasty ( 960-1276 ) -men usually only married women with bound feet ||
 * [[image:http://www.randomhouse.com/images/dyn/cover/?source=9780440415992&height=300&maxwidth=170]] || **__ Ties that Bind, Ties that Break __** ||
 * ^  || ** Lensey Namioka ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: This book is about a girl named Ailin who is the third sister in the Tao family. Ailin refuses to have her feet bound. Her father refuses that she has it done as well. This upsets her mother and grandmother. Since Ailin isn’t having her feet bound her engagement is broken. Ailin then began to go to public school but after her father died she was pulled out. Her uncle gave her two different options of what she could do with her life-either sell herself to have children for another family, or become a nun. She decides that she isn’t doing either and instead she becomes a nanny for an American family. After working for that family she goes to America with them. While traveling there she meets a man named James Chew. They meet up once again in America. In the end the American family Ailin worked for went back to China while Ailin stayed in America, and opened up a restaurant with her new husband James Chew. J ||
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 * **Reviewed by**: Amanda K.


 * Class**: Mrs. Hampton ||^  ||
 * || **Review**: I liked how Ailin never gave up on what she wanted to do. And never let what people said get to her. ||
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|| **__ Bound  __** || When bound to the life of servitude by your own stepmother, destined to stay unwed for life, how does Xing Xing live life everyday with only a fish as a friend? Xing Xing was left to serve her sister Wei Ping and Stepmother after both her mother and father have passed away. Unlike her sister, Xing Xing has beautifully small feet which could get her a husband fast. The only thing stopping her is both her parents are dead and her stepmother has only one desire, to get Wei Ping the big ring. || || **Historical note**: Parents arranged their child’s wedding and to whom. Valued sons more than daughters. Small feet on woman were attractive; parents usually bound their daughter’s feet to keep them small. Believed in giving money to ancestors for bribes and good fortune. || Karina Barbesino Block 3 ||^  || Amazing description from the biggest of scenes to the smallest of details. __Bound__ will keep you reading until the very end. || ||
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