sorrryyyy baru reply. iya bahasa inggris yg daku baca. tinggal 1/3 lagi abis seerruuuu...

some my fave paragraphs so far...

Kutip:
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Mr. Yao realized that he was ahead of his times, that it woul be unfair to let his daughters stand alone, trying to catch husbands, while the other girls of their generation had their parents' planning, forethoughts, and helos in finding the best young men of their age. Time was important, for the best young men were usually spoken for ahead. In other words, "free marriage" was to him a Utopian idea to toy with. Why, a modest girl would rather die unmarried than use her charms to hunt and capture a husband for herself! How cheap and undignified it appeared then, and how cheap and undignified it actually become as he saw it later!

In the present generation after Mulan, some of the best girls remain unmarried because times have changed. The best girls are too decent to go out hunting husbands for themselves, and their parents have lost the power to arrange matches with parents of desirable young men

Kutip:
Page 324
In the old China, one's motive for being good lay in the desire to live worthily of one's family and preserve it name and fortune. Only so we can explain the strong moral tradition, the emphasis on conduct, and the platitudes and interminable moralizing that permeated literature and history from the classics down, and followed a person even to his coffin.

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