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1 online resource (1 audio file (12hr., 30 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Nancy Wu. |
| Summary |
Li Juan and her mother own a small convenience store in the Altai Mountains in Northwestern China, where she writes about her life among grasslands and snowy peaks. To her neighbors' surprise, Li decides to join a family of Kazakh herders as they take their thirty boisterous camels, 500 sheep and over 100 cattle and horses to pasture for the winter. The so-called "winter pasture" occurs in a remote region that stretches from the Ulungur River to the Heavenly Mountains. As she journeys across the vast, seemingly endless sand dunes, she helps herd sheep, rides horses, chases after camels, builds an underground home using manure, gathers snow for water, and more. With a keen eye for the understated elegance of the natural world, and a healthy dose of self-deprecating humor, Li vividly captures both the extraordinary hardships and the ordinary preoccupations of the day-to-day of the men and women struggling to get by in this desolate landscape. Her companions include Cuma, the often drunk but mostly responsible father; his teenage daughter, Kama, who feels the burden of the world on her shoulders and dreams of going to college; his reticent wife, a paragon of decorum against all odds, who is simply known as "sister-in-law." |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Li, Juan, 1979- -- Travel -- China.
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Kazakhs -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu -- Social life and customs.
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Nomads -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu -- Social life and customs.
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Altay Diqu (China) -- In literature.
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Minorities -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu -- Social life and customs.
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China, Northwest -- Description and travel.
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Herders -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
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Chinese essays -- 21st century.
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| Added Author |
Wu, Nancy, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781666102734 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1666102733 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13945066 |
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