Alex Kuo
Autore di My Private China
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: from Washington State University faculty page
Opere di Alex Kuo
Opere correlate
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Collaboratore — 174 copie
Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction (1993) — Collaboratore — 159 copie
Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Poets (1983) — Collaboratore — 28 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1941
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Chongqing, China
Shanghai, China
Hong Kong - Istruzione
- Knox College (BA)
University of Iowa (MFA) - Attività lavorative
- English professor, Washington State University
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 10
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 51
- Popolarità
- #311,767
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 16
- ISBN
- 13
Of course I was interested in the average life of the average Chinese.
The first time I started reading this book, I was put off by the first chaper and decided to put it aside for (much) later reading.
Well, that 'later' has now come.
Still the same dislike of the first chapter and of the general contents of the book. I was expecting an account of every day life in China, but what I read ware rephrased interviews with high(er) ranking Chinese, accounts of bridge games. I have no idea how to play, so I even skipped a few pages in these chapters.
The chapter I liked best was The Re-Taking of Hong Kong, where photographs finally showed some ordinary people and made comparispn possible between old and new, then and now.
I had expected more of this book.… (altro)