(Granted, I’ve only read the Moby Illustrated Classics version in grade school). The fact that the Chairman turns out to Sayuri’s "benefactor," as it were, does not contribute to the story in any sort of manner near the similar revelation in Great Expectations. This is not to say that the author is another Charles Dickens, although in places he seems to be trying to emulate (or borrow from) the latter. I, however, didn’t feel the letdown experienced by many of the other readers, and overall I found the work adequately consuming.
(Admittedly, reading reactions such as these tend to bias one before even starting to read a book, but seeing that I have a finite amount of time I must limit my perusals in some fashion.) In an interview with the author himself, he agreed that (if I remember correctly) the ending seemed somewhat an attempt to tie up the loose ends of a first novel.
Having glanced around on (that’s where I discovered Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha to begin with), I read not a few responses from other readers that indicated the plot simply fell apart - or maybe faded away - in somewhere in the middle of the story. ☰ Review: Memoirs of a Geisha Title Memoirs of a Geisha Author Arthur Golden Publisher Alfred A. Hence, contrary to claims that celebrity philanthropy is an apolitical mode of philanthropy, an examination of the Zhang Ziyi scandal and its disaster-relief precursors demonstrates that celebrity philanthropy in the Peoples Republic of China is a political affair.Review: Memoirs of a Geisha Garret Wilson Dubbed `donation-gate, the ensuing controversy obliged Zhang Ziyi to hire a team of USA-based lawyers, to give an exclusive interview to the China Daily, and to engage in renewed philanthropic endeavours, in an effort to clear her name. Zhangs `failed pledge led fans and critics to accuse her in interactive media forums of both charity fraud and generating a nationwide crisis of faith in the philanthropic activities of the rich and famous. Philanthropic donations in 2008 amounted to a total figure of 100 billion yuan, exceeding the documented total for the preceding decade. That earthquake not only killed 70,000 people and left five million homeless, but also produced a dramatic rise in individual and corporate philanthropy in China. In January 2010, the internationally acclaimed Chinese actor, Zhang Ziyi, became a focus of public criticism for allegedly defaulting on a pledge to donate one million yuan to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake disaster-relief fund.
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