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Straight Through the Labyrinth: Becoming a Gay Father in China de Peter Rupert Lighte

Straight Through the Labyrinth: Becoming a Gay Father in China

Autor Peter Rupert Lighte
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 oct 2022
Straight Through the Labyrinth chronicles the true story of a gay Jewish scholar of China caught in the crosshairs of the very history he has studied. Suddenly ensnared in Hong Kongs handover to China in 1997, Peter Rupert Lighte, intent on adopting a Chinese baby, navigates his way through daunting bureaucracy and unforeseen drama and prevails, likely becoming Hong Kongs first adoptive gay father. A second daughter soon follows, a story less fraught, convincing him that purposeful synchronicity can thrash anything in the way of love.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780991252909
ISBN-10: 099125290X
Pagini: 236
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Acausal Press
Colecția Acausal Press

Recenzii

A book full of love stories, a testament to ecstatic generosity. Andrew Solomon, author of Far & Away and professor of Clinical Medial Psychology, Columbia University
This emotionally gripping and occasionally nerve-wracking account is a striking achievement. May Holdsworth, author of Crime, Justice and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong
A tale highly specific but also universal, about the search for love and family and redemption, told with candidness and a sharp wit. Shai Oster, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

Notă biografică

Over his lifetime, Peter Rupert Lighte immersed himself in matters Chinese, all the while longing to become a father. After obtaining a PhD from Princeton in East Asian Studies, he haphazardly accepted a position at a bank that sought to mold him into a "renaissance banker." In 1982, he was dispatched to Beijing, which was then gradually emerging from the Cultural Revolution, to become a pioneering circuit rider traveling around a country he had come to know through Confucius and Ming gazetteers. Before long, he was briefing the US Secretary of the Treasury for a speech at the Great Hall of the People, explaining the significance of turkey to Premier Zhao Ziyang at President Reagan's Thanksgiving banquet, and having a bouquet of flowers brusquely snatched from his arms by the Australian prime minister to present to a Chinese dignitary.

After three years in Beijing, Lighte was posted to London, where he met his life partner, Julian Grant, a composer. Though resolved to become a father, he was at first thwarted by his sexuality and local authorities turning a deaf ear, obliging him to put his parental agenda on hold until the couple relocated to Hong Kong on the cusp of the colony's return to China in 1997.

Subsequently, the couple adopted two daughters from China, after which their family went on to Tokyo, London, and Beijing, where Lighte became the founding chairman of J. P. Morgan Chase Bank China. He now lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his husband, Julian, and Fuqi, a mutt from Beijing. Their daughters, both Barnard women, are well out in the world. He is also the author of Pieces of China and Host of Memories: Tales of Inevitable