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"Behind every great man there is a great woman." The popular saying from the 1940s is representative of South Korean president Lee Myung-bak's book Mother, recently released in Chinese.
Published by China Youth Press earlier this month in the wake of its launch in South Korea in 2007, the book is a crystallization of the author's personal growth from a poor countryside boy to a leader, all under the influence of his mother.
In the book, Lee for the first time retells many buried stories about his childhood struggles and how he grew into the person he is today. He attributes his success to his mother, who was a housewife and died when Lee was in his 20s.
"My mother was not a learned woman, she had not even finished primary school, but her upright character and high morals and her wisdom from life serve as a beacon for me," Lee writes in the preface of his book.
The author depicts his life in detail and illustrates the traits he leant from his mother. |
