Er Tai Gao
Autore di In search of my homeland : a memoir of a Chinese labor camp
Opere di Er Tai Gao
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Gao, Ertai
- Data di nascita
- 1935
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- China
- Luogo di nascita
- Jiangsu Province, China
- Luogo di residenza
- Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (1993- )
- Attività lavorative
- professor
artist
philosopher - Premi e riconoscimenti
- State Expert with Distinguished Contributions (1986)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 19
- Popolarità
- #609,294
- Voto
- 2.8
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 2
- Lingue
- 1
The story of Er Tai Gao′s experience is absorbing, in part because I knew little about what ″reform through labor″ meant. The title is a bit deceiving though, in that his two stints in the camps were relatively short compared to his twenty-one years of punishment. Much of the book is spent describing his ten years working on the caves at Dunhuang. That was very interesting, both the caves themselves and his relationships with the others there. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Thousand Buddha Grottoes, as they are also known, are worth taking a look at: on Wikipedia or the World Heritage site.
Unfortunately, the memoir was not written as well as it could have been. I′m not sure if it is the fault of the author, the translators, or the poor editing. The transitions between chapters are awkward with each chapter beginning as though you had not read the previous ones. The endnotes were somewhat helpful, although it was curious what was deemed important to note. I would have found a list of names helpful, as the narrative goes back and forth in time, and I lost track of who was who or what their position was. Overall I′m glad I read it, but it could have been better written.
(Edited the same day to fix typographical error.)… (altro)