One Russia, Two Chinas
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2004
216 pages
978-1-77070-667-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is old-fashioned travel writing, with vivid prose and bizarre characters. But it also freezes some important world events for close inspection.
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George Fetherling
One Russia, Two Chinas
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10/2004
Press Porcepic,Ontario
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Person
George Fetherling is a poet, fiction writer, and voyager. Among his many books are Travels by Night: A Memoir of the Sixties and Running Away to Sea: Round the World on a Tramp Freighter. He published under the name Douglas Fetherling until 1999, and thereafter under the name George in honour of his late father. He lives in Vancouver.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Russia 1990
- 1 On the Loose in Moscow
- 2 Arts and Letters
- 3 Red Arrow, Red Square
- 4 Diseases of the Soul
- 5 Transsib
- China 1990
- 1 Comparative Embalming
- 2 Chongqing!
- 3 Downriver
- 4 The Buzz on the Shanghai Bund
- Indochina 1990
- Taiwan
- Prologue
- 1 Taiwan 1991
- 2 Taiwan 1995
- Epilogue
- Afterword 2004
