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My Private China

  • ISBN-13: 9789881613943
  • Publisher: BLACKSMITH BOOKS
    Imprint: BLACKSMITH BOOKS
  • By Alex Kuo
  • Price: AUD $34.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 30/07/2013
  • Format: Paperback (215.00mm X 140.00mm) 188 pages Weight: 364g
  • Categories: Memoirs [BM]Literary essays [DNF]Asian history [HBJF]
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What do normal people in China look forward to when they get up in the morning? What is the mentor of Lang Lang like? What about the personal friend of Chairman Mao and how does his granddaughter relate to him after the murderous Cultural Revolution? What do the numerous evangelical Americans really think of the Chinese? How does the One Country, Two Systems paradigm work for Hong Kong? For the last 73 years, American Book Award winner Alex Kuo has travelled back-and-forth between America and China. These letters and essays portray the private China, and provide indispensable cultural information for anyone interested in the People's Republic in the 21st century.
Alex Kuo taught in Beijing during its political spring of 1989, and later as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Changchun. His most recent work of fiction, "Lipstick," received the American Book Award in 2002. He is Writer-in-Residence at Washington State University.
With irony, wit and intelligence, Alex Kuo shares his unique experiences in China and Hong Kong. Part memoir, part cultural analysis, My Private China skewers stereotypes and misconceptions with the sharp eye and beautiful prose of the novelist and poet he is also. This is a must-read for China watchers and anyone willing to get behind the lazy reporting and political posturing that so often informs-or misinforms-writing about China. -- Robert Abel, author of Riding a Tiger In My Private China, Alex Kuo plays with the multiple realities of Tiananmen Square China, global China, and post-colonial China. The shifting scales of ancient, present and future merge into a meditation on China's place and China's space. Though he may reveal that the tank gun barrels in 1989 Tiananmen were plugged, Kuo is certainly unplugged in this insightful collection. -- R. Edward Grumbine, author of Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River
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