Our Story A Memoir Of Love And Life In China Rao Pingru by Rao Pingru 9781101871492, 1101871490 instant download after payment.

Rao Pingru was a twenty-six-year-old soldier when he saw Mao Meitang, a girl he'd known from childhood who had grown up to be a beautiful woman--the woman his father had arranged for him to marry. One glimpse of her through a window as she put on lipstick was enough to capture Rao's heart, the moment that sparked a union that would last almost sixty years.

Our Story is that epic romance told through his paintings & accompanying text. We see & Pingru & Meitang through the decades, in both poverty & good fortune--looking for work, opening a restaurant, moving cities, mending shoes, raising their children, & being separated for seventeen years by the government when Pingru is sent to a labor camp. As they age, China undergoes extraordinary growth, political turmoil, & cultural change. When Meitang passes away in 2008, Pingru memorializes his wife & their relationship the only way he knows how: through painting. In an outpouring of love & grief, he puts it all on paper. 

It's a tale at once tragic & inspiring, of enduring love & simple values, an old-fashioned story that unfolds in a nation rapidly becoming modern. Spanning 1923 to 2008, Our Story is a truly singular graphic memoir.