China Dreams: Growing Up Jewish in Tientsin (Singular Lives) - Softcover

Maynard, Isabelle

 
9780877455714: China Dreams: Growing Up Jewish in Tientsin (Singular Lives)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0877455716 ISBN 13: 9780877455714
Verlag: UNIV OF IOWA PR, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

What does it mean to be "thrice alien"? Isabelle Zimmer Maynard is one who knows. Born in 1929 in Tientsin, China, Maynard was the only child of Russian Jewish parents who had fled the Communists and sought refuge in this teeming city on the North China Sea. They subsequently survived the Japanese invasion of China and ultimately escaped to San Francisco when the Chinese Communists seized power. China Dreams, like a string of beguiling pearls, is a collection of autobiographical stories of an amazing childhood. Maynard's ability to reconstruct her world in the moment will delight and enchant readers. She says, "I have carried China all my life. I do not claim accuracy of history - only accuracy of the heart." Her keen eye and fetching wit provide an arresting, poignant, highly personal portrait of a now-vanished world once shared by thousands of European Jews.

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Verlag
UNIV OF IOWA PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0877455716
ISBN 13 
9780877455714
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
166
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