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A Thousand Miles of Dreams is an evocative and intimate biography of two Chinese sisters who took very different paths in their quest to be independent women. Ling Shuhao arrived in Cleveland in 1925 to study medicine in the middle of a U.S. crackdown on Chinese immigrant communities, and her effort to assimilate began. She became an American named Amy, while her sister Ling Shuhua burst onto the Beijing literary scene as a writer of short fiction. They were both Chinese ""modern girls"" who sought to forge their own way in an era of social revolution and followed trajectories unimaginable to

Physicians --- Authors, Chinese --- Artists --- Immigrants --- Chinese Americans --- Sisters --- Brothers and sisters --- Women --- Ling, Shuhao, --- Ling, Shuhua, --- Ling, Shu-hua, --- Ling, Suhua, --- Ling, Ruitang, --- Ling, Su-hua, --- Su, Hua, --- Su Hua, --- Ling, Jui-tʻang, --- Chen, Su Hua Ling, --- 凌叔华, --- 凌叔華, --- Chen, Amy Ling, --- Ling, Amy, --- San Francisco (Calif.) --- China --- Siblings