Our Story" is the autobiography of Chinese natives Rao Pingru and his wife Mao Meitang as they meet, marry, and grow old together. Every story includes paintings made by Pingru and little vignettes explaining each painting and going into greater detail into his life - the good and the bad. He fought the Japanese in WWII, saw his home town destroyed, worked in a re-education camp for 20 years, and had six children who would all have interesting lives of their own. The Krays will continue to intrigue us and morality seekers will continue to probe the fascination with them. However, and just a little under the 50% mark, “two frightened kids in total denial” — as our queen Rona so accurately put it — happened. New characters were introduced. New plot lines followed. Aaaannd things went downhill for me.

As two men who made their mark and took over London's underworld by being savage and utterly fearless, a STRONG sense of morality pervades the entire book, even from Ronnie who, self admittedly, was heavily medicated since incarceration. Habiendo vivido una infancia sin escasez, después de casarse empezarán a sentir la ausencia de muchas cosas. Les tocó vivir entre guerras que se solapaban unas a otras como la gran guerra de China y Japón, con la invasión de esta última; la posterior guerra civil producto de la expulsión de Japón de China; o la Revolución cultural China con el envío de Pingru al campo para su reeducación. Somewhat episodic, with plain, unadorned language, this memoir is nonetheless rather moving, as Rao Pingru relates many incidents from his long life, and from that of his wife Mao Meitang, a woman he'd known since his childhood. Pingru and Meitang live through many turbulent events in China's past, including the Japanese invasion and the cultural revolution. They were arrested on 9 May 1968 and convicted in 1969 by the efforts of a squad of detectives led by Detective Superintendent Leonard "Nipper" Read, and were both sentenced to life imprisonment.

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I loved some of the banter and general dialogue between not only Otty and Joe, but also the words they were putting into their scripts. The snippets that are given hooked me into wanting to watch the programme they were working on. Elegí este libro como segunda lectura del marzo asiático. La primera vez que lo vi en la librería el verano pasado, sufrí un flechazo. Lo compré hace poco y tenía las expectativas muy altas, así que me congratula decir que no me ha decepcionado en absoluto. Humane and humorous... Our Story is as hard to resist as the great, rich, rambling serial narratives of the oral storytellers who travelled from one Chinese village to another in the past, drawing entire populations out of their houses to sit on the hillside and listen Spectator This work of non fiction collects two crime brothers' reflections of who they are, who they WERE, where they are now and where they may be remaining for the rest of their lives. After the Revolution of 1949, Rao tried his hand at business. The family settled in Shanghai where he worked as an accountant at the hospital and as Art and Literature editor at Dade Publications.

A graphic memoir like no other: the true story of a marriage in China that spanned the twentieth century, told in vibrant, original paintings and prose. En 2008, tras sesenta años de matrimonio, Meitang, la esposa de Pingru, falleció. Fue entonces cuando él decidió empezar a escribir e ilustrar la historia de sus vidas y de la familia, para que fuera un bonito recuerdo para sus nietos. Pingru llenó veinte cuadernos, que más tarde se convirtieron en este libro. Con lo cual, estamos ante un documento sencillo, en que se habla mucho de la China del siglo XX a nivel cotidiano, desde los ojos de una familia muy, muy modesta pero que siempre estuvo unida, incluso a pesar de la distancia que separó a Pingru de los suyos durante veinte años por causas políticas.

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As West End nightclub owners, they mixed with prominent entertainers including Diana Dors, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland and with politicians. The Krays were much feared within their milieu, and in the 1960s became celebrities in their own right, even being photographed by David Bailey and interviewed on television. En resumen, nos encontramos ante un libro bonito. En todo momento se puede apreciar el amor hacia su mujer. El tono es ligero a pesar del drama que se cuentan. Las ilustraciones refuerzan estas sensaciones de belleza y ligereza. La edición española de Salamandra me ha parecido muy buena. These two men, along with their contemporaries on the other manors, were of their times. They had the code of honour and ethics, but still thought a lot of their family.

Siempre disfruto estas historias donde sea habla tanto de lo cotidiano, de lo sencillo, de lo que de verdad importa. Esta importancia a la familia y la unión de todos ellos, aún separados por la época, no se olvida. Me gusta mucho ese sentimiento que muestran las historias que he leído sobre China en el sentido familiar. Y en este libro se muestra constantemente. Thanks to the persuasive power of its humane and humorous author, Our Story is as hard to resist as the great, rich, rambling serial narratives of the oral storytellers who travelled from one Chinese village to another Hilary Spurling, The SpectatorI don't like biographies. Autobiographies even less. And yet I have this to say about "Our Story" by Rao Pingru: From their own mouths (with help from Fred Dineage), this book is engaging, informative and unapologetic. I don’t think anything could’ve prepared me for the disappointment that this book turned out to be. It started off strong, and the premise had me intrigued. Even though the setting of the story happened too fast and straight forward for me, I was enjoying getting to know Otty and Joe, as well as discovering the amazing world of showrunners and writing teams.