Borrowed Tongue Edited by Eva Hung

Edited by Eva Hung

he continues to live and write in Kunming

from the Sung and Ch'ing dynasties

We begin with chapter five from Feng Menglong’s 馮夢龍 seventeenth-century historical novel

Borrowed Tongue Edited by Eva HungBy Tao Yang 1986; 1989 216 pages ISBN 962 201 381 3 This is the story of a Chinese woman confronting her past, seeking the origins of her contradictions and nightmares. The clues lead backwards, to her family and to China, to a past that is as much an obsession as a legacy, to a truth that can only be revealed by questions a daughter is not supposed to ask. She has left behind her family home in Soochow and the mother who perhaps never wanted her, and