Orville Schell
Autore di Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century
Sull'Autore
Orville Schell, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, is the author of "Mandate of Heaven", "Discos & Democracy", "The China Reader", & twelve other books. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, & Newsweek, among others. mostra altro He lives with his wife & children in the San Francisco Bay Area. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Serie
Opere di Orville Schell
Republican China: Nationalism, War, and the Rise of Communism 1911-1949 (1967) — A cura di — 125 copie
Imperial China: The decline of the last dynasty and the origins of modern China, the 18th and 19th centuries (1967) — A cura di — 96 copie
Communist China: Revolutionary Reconstruction and International Confrontation 1949 to the Present (1967) — A cura di — 88 copie
In the People's Republic: An American's first-hand view of living and working in China (1977) 39 copie
Opere correlate
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Collaboratore — 452 copie
What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics (2007) — Introduzione — 126 copie
Fate! Luck! Chance! Amy Tan, Stewart Wallace, and the Making of The Bonesetter's Daughter (2008) — Prefazione — 5 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1940-05-20
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Istruzione
- Harvard University
University of California, Berkeley - Attività lavorative
- journalist
- Relazioni
- Schell, Jonathan (brother)
Baifang (wife) - Organizzazioni
- Asia Society
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Asia (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 26
- Opere correlate
- 7
- Utenti
- 966
- Popolarità
- #26,651
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 13
- ISBN
- 55
- Lingue
- 4
After the Cultural Revolution and with the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, Li is able to return to Bejing only to find much destruction but his father has returned but in extremely poor condition. Li cares for his father as much as he can and meets Hong, a young woman at the music school. He has a relationship with her, but always is thinking about going to America which he soon does.
When he gets to America, he has no money and is only goal is to get into a music school. He takes a job as a janitor at a fitness gym where he meets Juliette, a beautiful, but totally free spirit sexually. They move in together, but it is a purely sexual experience. He later meets a young musician named Lisa who falls desperately in love with Li. (Juliette and Lisa could be described as symbols of what is shallow and what is good about American). Now Li finds himself yearning to return home which he does. He looks up his childhood friend who is deeply involved in the resistance movement. He also finds Hong only to discover that she has had his child.
The book ends with the revolution at Tinnamon Square. This is a beautifully written book (in spite of all the Chinese letters that are interspersed through the narrative. It's long, believable, and memorable. Does an excellent job of showing the many different complications of life in China.… (altro)