My Chinese Marriage: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

My Chinese Marriage, credited to Mae Franking; Katherine Anne Porter, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of My Chinese Marriage by Mae Franking; Katherine Anne Porter. Read in English by Danielle Cartwright Mae Watkins, a University of Michigan student, unexpectedly falls in love with a Chinese international law student in the midst of World War I. Despite the socially unacceptable pairing the couple decide to tie the knot and forge ahead with an unsure future. Mae demonstrates her unique ability to observe and describe a foreign culture after their move to Shanghai. She documents in detail her perceptions of Chinese fashion and food in addition to her knowledge of such controversial customs as foot binding and widow suicide. She offers great compassion for her Chinese family, both current and past. This book was ghost written by Katherine Anne Porter and published in Asia in serialized form in 1920. The original manuscript has been lost, but the serial form was subsequently republished. - Summary by Danielle Cartwright

Recording facts

• Recording title: My Chinese Marriage
• Author credits: Mae Franking; Katherine Anne Porter
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 3:23:13

Catalogue topics

• chinese culture
• intercultural marriage

Track guide

1. 01 - In America — 49:38
2. 02 - In Shanghai — 52:03
3. 03 - First Daughter-In-Law — 50:56
4. 04 - The Eternal Hills — 50:36

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