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Reading Response Assignment: The Sea of Regret Book Review

Book Review Instructions:

When reading The Sea of Regret(in the attachment), read with the following questions in mind: 
1. What is the historical background? What are the main characters? What is the story about? And how is it written?
2. What aspects of the story may be considered unusual from your perspective? How is "passion," "duty," "femininity" and "morality" defined in the story? Do you consider the story "conservative"? 
3. In your response, you should not feel limited by these questions and should feel free to pose your own questions. Compose your response as if you are writing a mini essay, furnished with topic sentence, quotes with page numbers as evidence, comments and questions of your own. It doesn't have to be long, two well-written paragraphs will do.

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The Sea of Regret Book Review
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The Sea of Regret by Wu Jianren was written at the turn of the twentieth century, which was characterized by an influx of Western social and literary ideas. The book was written at a period when most Chinese people were scared that they would lose their independence and even their cultural identity. However, this was also a period of social change and the book is meant to address women's rights which until this period had not been recognized. For a long time, Chinese women had been living in arranged marriages and the book was written in support of free marriages in the country. The Sea of Regret tells the difference between passion and what the author terms as lechery and is based on the life of Dihua and her cousin Bohe who a...
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