Chinaland: Through a Glass, Darkly is the memoir of a Chinese American woman that touches, with humor and irony, on issues of race, ethnicity, culture and faith. The writer's life takes her, often clueless and bumbling, across countries and continents, from Taiwan where she was born to Canada where she was raised, to England and Europe, to China, back to England and finally to America. It's a journey she hopes will lead to a clearly defined identity. It does not. But it does result in a unique, wide-eyed experience of life as a Chinese citizen in Red China in the 1970s and early 1980s, from the latter part of the Cultural Revolution steeped in Maoism to the beginnings of Deng Xiaoping's modernization and a shockingly ineluctable traditionalism. It is an intriguing journey that colors every aspect of her life even after she manages to circle back to the beginning of her journey in North America.
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Maße
Höhe: 244 mm
Breite: 170 mm
Dicke: 16 mm
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978-1-68372-445-2 (9781683724452)
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Peggy Lin was born in Taiwan and emigrated to Canada when she was a year old. In 1969, she graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BA from the Department of English. In 1973, she went to Beijing, China where she studied and then worked for almost a decade, becoming a citizen of the People's Republic of China in 1978. In 1984, she went to England where she completed her M.A. degree in Victorian Studies at the University of Keele in 1986. From there, she went on to the University of Maryland, College Park and received her Ph.D. in 1994 from the Department of English.
