A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working WomanWithin the common destiny is the individual destiny. So it is that through the telling of one Chinese peasant woman's life, a vivid vision of Chinese history and culture is illuminated. Over the course of two years, Ida Pruitt a bicultural social worker, writer, and contributor to Sino American understanding visited with Ning Lao T'ai ta'i, three times a week for breakfast. These meetings, originally intended to elucidate for Pruitt traditional