The Concubine's Children: An Analysis

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the content of the
story, making it seems rather impersonal, even for nonfiction. The book
itself was written recently, using the author's grandfather's letters as a
guide. The author wrote the book in an attempt to better educate herself
about her Chinese heritage, and about a nation that seemed foreign to her,
a place "you'd find yourself if you dug a hold deep enough to come out the
other side of the Earth."

The idea conveyed by means of the story is how Chinese culture
places the importance of family at an unsurpassed level and how this
becomes the demise of each of her family's prior generations. One example
is May-ying, a woman who will sell her body if she knows she can take the
profits and mail them back to her husband so he can continue the family.
She looks at maintaining family in a Machiavellian fashion, putting her
morals below all else, keeping the family together at all costs. In the
end, however, this practice ends up being her end, as she becomes ...

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