How Long to Read Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic

How Long Does it Take to Read Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic by Bette Bao Lord

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Urgent and timeless, Legacies brings us closer than we have ever been to penetrating the great conundrum of China m the twentieth century. It could only have been written by Bette Bao Lord -- born in China, raised in America, author of the bestselling novel Spring Moon, wife of a former American ambassador to China, resident in Beijing during the "China Spring" of 1989. Lord's unique web of relationships and her sensitive insight have enabled her to observe Chinese life both high and low, Communist and dissident, intellectual and ordinary. Lord interweaves her own story, and that of her clansmen, with the voices of men and women who recall the tumultuous experience of the last fifty years, and the legacy of the Cultural Revolution. In precise, subtle prose, Lord explores the reality of Red Guards and reeducation camps, of friends and families severed by political disgrace, and captures the individual voices of those caught up in them: the seven-year-old girl with a heart full of hate for her father; the journalist whose girlfriend believes the Party newspapers, not him; the imprisoned scholar who hid his writings in his quilt for years; the anti-revolutionary who tells his bitter story in a vein of high farce. All bear heartbreaking witness to the surreal quality of Chinese society today -- and to the astonishing resilience, humor, and heroic equanimity of the Chinese spirit.

How long is Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic?

Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic by Bette Bao Lord is 260 pages long, and a total of 65,000 words.

This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic aloud.

What Reading Level is Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic?

Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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