Riding with the Wind: Three Generations of My Family in China

In Riding with the Wind, Fay Hoh Yin paints an indelible portrait of three generations of her family in China as the imperial era ends and war with Japan begins. Her parents are among the first young people to escape the archaic traditions of foot binding and arranged marriage, then use their newfound freedom to study in the West. They return home in the early 1920s to become pioneering educators and proponents of physical fitness and sports. In lyrical prose, the author recalls scenes from her improbably happy childhood amid bombs and atrocities.Yin later comes to the U.S. herself, marries a fellow foreign student, and starts a family. Tragically, she loses her husband at age thirty-seven, but forges a unique partnership with her widowed mother-in-law that far outlasts either of their marriages. Yin's stories of daring, hardship, and perseverance are deeply personal, yet illuminate the changing roles of women in 20th century China and the United States.

Author: Fay Hoh Yin
Publisher: Yin Imprints
Published: 04/28/2017
Pages: 244
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780998906409

About the Author
Fay Hoh Yin was born in Beijing in 1932 to a family of educators. She grew up while China was wracked by almost two decades of war-first with Japan and then civil war between the Chinese Nationalists and Communists. She and her family fled thousands of miles to escape the chaos, finally settling in Taiwan in 1949. Two years later, she came to the U.S. as a foreign student and earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin. Fay married Ted Yin in 1959 and they had a son and daughter. After being widowed in 1970, she took up international folk dancing, which remained her passion for more than forty years. Fay retired in 1991 after working for twenty-six years as a virologist for the DuPont Company in Wilmington, Delaware.

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