The Promise: Love and Loss in Modern China
Autor Xinran Xue Traducere de William Spenceen Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 noi 2018
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781788313629
ISBN-10: 1788313623
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1788313623
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Supported by a big publicity campaign to mark Chinese calendar events.
Notă biografică
Xinran is a Chinese author, journalist and activist. The host of a ground-breaking Chinese radio show 'Thoughts on the Night Breeze' which invited women from across the country to discuss their issues in a frank and open setting, Xinran was a pioneer. Her first book, based on ten years of her radio show, was released in 2002 - The Good Women of China was a literary sensation in the West and has now been published all over the world in more than 30 languages, becoming an international bestseller. She has written one novel, Miss Chopsticks, and four other non-fiction books: Sky Burial, China Witness, Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother and Buy Me the Sky. Xinran lectures and gives speeches on writing and Chinese women and history in over twenty countries. In 2004, she set up The Mothers' Bridge of Love charity to create a bridge of understanding between China and the West. Xinran is based in London, but visits China regularly.
Cuprins
Promises and 'talking love': my inspirations for this bookMap of ChinaKey DatesIntroductionNote on the TextPart I. A Love Coloured by Wars and Political MovementsFirst sister, RedPart II. A Communist Family TreeSecond sister, GreenPart III. A Bird's Love during the Cultural RevolutionGreen's daughter, CranePart IV. Diverse 'Lovers'The 3D Generation: Lili, Yoyo, WuhenAfterword: In and Out the Door of LifeAuthor's Heartfelt Thanks
Recenzii
Reporting on four generations of one Chinese family and their diverging paths, Xinran shows how the country's social norms have changed through politics and the rise of modernity.
Xinran Xue is a gifted storyteller and The Promise reads like an unputdownable novel. William Spence's translation from Chinese into English cannot be over-praised.
[A] graceful work that restores a lost generation to history.
'An absorbing, often startling, always persuasive exploration of contemporary China.'
One would have to have a heart of stone not to be moved.
Groundbreaking. This intimate record reads like an act of defiance, and the unvarnished prose allows each story to stand as testimony.
'Right here we see the red lines that many Chinese still draw for themselves in public discourse, or even privately, the boundaries they dare not cross even today. No other style of storytelling could have exhibited them with more clarity or greater rawness.'
Exploring love and loss in modern China is a big job but it is in simplifying the overwhelming that Xinran excels. And in the introduction to this compelling and moving book, the author clarifies just how she has managed the task...In these carefully told vignettes, Xinran takes the reader through a century of tumult and change in China, her writing beautifully reflecting the intimate and honest voices of the women whose stories of love she tells.
'Xinran writes with a fine balance of economy, compassion and wisdom, and manages to be at once proud, critical, forward-looking, nostalgic, sad, angry and hopeful.'
'Xinran evokes the multiple, layered cultures and customs of modern China with bright, memorable detail and empathy for her characters.'
Xinran's The Promise is an epical account depicting the emotional life of four generations of a Chinese family. It is an important book that paints a multi-faceted portrait of a society undergoing radical social transition. This book cracks the code of love, loneliness, and belonging of contemporary China.
A brilliant storyteller
Xinran Xue is a gifted storyteller and The Promise reads like an unputdownable novel. William Spence's translation from Chinese into English cannot be over-praised.
[A] graceful work that restores a lost generation to history.
'An absorbing, often startling, always persuasive exploration of contemporary China.'
One would have to have a heart of stone not to be moved.
Groundbreaking. This intimate record reads like an act of defiance, and the unvarnished prose allows each story to stand as testimony.
'Right here we see the red lines that many Chinese still draw for themselves in public discourse, or even privately, the boundaries they dare not cross even today. No other style of storytelling could have exhibited them with more clarity or greater rawness.'
Exploring love and loss in modern China is a big job but it is in simplifying the overwhelming that Xinran excels. And in the introduction to this compelling and moving book, the author clarifies just how she has managed the task...In these carefully told vignettes, Xinran takes the reader through a century of tumult and change in China, her writing beautifully reflecting the intimate and honest voices of the women whose stories of love she tells.
'Xinran writes with a fine balance of economy, compassion and wisdom, and manages to be at once proud, critical, forward-looking, nostalgic, sad, angry and hopeful.'
'Xinran evokes the multiple, layered cultures and customs of modern China with bright, memorable detail and empathy for her characters.'
Xinran's The Promise is an epical account depicting the emotional life of four generations of a Chinese family. It is an important book that paints a multi-faceted portrait of a society undergoing radical social transition. This book cracks the code of love, loneliness, and belonging of contemporary China.
A brilliant storyteller