The Bitter Sea: Coming of Age in a China Before Mao
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (618 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061709549 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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This candid memoir by an engaging and sympathetic narrator will be of special interest to students of politics and history.—Jackie Gropman, Chantilly Regional Library, Fairfax County, VACopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Returning home, he succumbed to depression and "vulgar materialism" before coming to accept his heritage and his father. Finally, Li's father, in an attempt to ingratiate himself with the Communist party, sent his son to a brutal reform school. When the political power shifted, Li's father was imprisoned and the family sent to live in a disease-infested slum. . Li's education included expulsion, abusive homeschooling, and a middle school where he excelled. Hyperactive and curious, the lonely little boy was forbidden to go outdoors, and his only c
PERFECT Every thing was all around "PERFECT". Yes, I would buy from this seller again.. "A Survivor's Story" according to Loves the View. There are many good narratives by survivors of this period in Chinese history. This short narrative, by the son of a player in the drama of 20th century China, is unique for its descriptions of the number of facets of Chinese life experienced by the author as a boy and young man.Before leaving his teens he had lived in sheltered wealth and in the slums of Nanjing, in the freewheeling city of Shanghai, in various places in Hong Kon. True Reflection said a good read. This book tells a personal story of a boy growing up in a very unusual Chinese family during the turbulent times of world war II and the Chinese civil war that followed. The story unfolded as sort of a self analysis, an older man looking back at his childhood and his father with pity, ambivalence, and nostalgia. It is deeping moving, tear-jerking at times, and yet entertaning in its own special way. I read the book on a flight fro
Born near the beginning of World War II, Li Na was the youngest son of a wealthy Chinese government official. Over the course of twenty-one tumultuous years, he went from Li Na, the dutiful Chinese son yearning for a stern, manipulative father's love, to Charles, an independent Chinese American seeking no one's approval but his own. He watched from his aunt's Shanghai apartment as the Communist army seized the city in 1948. He experienced the heady materialism of the decadent foreign "white ghosts" in British Hong Kong and starved within the harsh confines of a Communist reform school. Lyrical and luminous, intense and extraordinary, The Bitter Sea is an unforgettable true story of a young man, his father, and his country.. He saw his father jailed for treason and his family's fortunes dashed when Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists came to power in 1945
Charles N. He lives in Santa Barbara with his wife.. Li recently retired from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was dean of the graduate division and a professor of linguistics