Orville Schell
Auteur de Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century
A propos de l'auteur
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. afficher plus He lives with his wife & children in the San Francisco Bay Area. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Orville Schell
Republican China: Nationalism, War, and the Rise of Communism 1911-1949 (1967) — Directeur de publication — 125 exemplaires
Imperial China: The decline of the last dynasty and the origins of modern China, the 18th and 19th centuries (1967) — Directeur de publication — 96 exemplaires
Communist China: Revolutionary Reconstruction and International Confrontation 1949 to the Present (1967) — Directeur de publication — 88 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contributeur — 454 exemplaires
What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics (2007) — Introduction — 127 exemplaires
Fate! Luck! Chance! Amy Tan, Stewart Wallace, and the Making of The Bonesetter's Daughter (2008) — Avant-propos — 5 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1940-05-20
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Études
- Harvard University
University of California, Berkeley - Professions
- journalist
- Relations
- Schell, Jonathan (brother)
Baifang (wife) - Organisations
- Asia Society
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Asia (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 26
- Aussi par
- 7
- Membres
- 973
- Popularité
- #26,474
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 13
- ISBN
- 55
- Langues
- 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.… (plus d'informations)