Between Parting and Goodbye - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1929400608 ISBN 13: 9781929400607

Inhaltsangabe

Tze-ying Duan, the Director of Chinese Studies, is a capable scholar who possesses both beauty and intelligence. In an attempt to achieve tenure status at the university, she tried to influence others at the university with her charms and schemes. Will she end up ruining the second marriage that she worked so hard to get, and will she get the tenure as planned?

Murphy, the Dean of the Liberal Arts College, was a handsome and charming American. Because of Tze-ying¡¦s popularity with the Chancellor, Murphy is the top contender for the Vice Chancellor position. Unfortunately, Tze-ying¡¦s attitude was more than he could stand. Between a man¡¦s pride and the Vice Chancellor position, what will Murphy choose in the end?

Rue-jan Fang, a part-time lecturer at the university who wanted nothing more than be a good wife and mother to her family, found her life taking a detour after a scholastic exchange trip to China. On that trip, she was the acting translator for the Chancellor. The two took a liking to each other, and a love affair exploded after they returned to the States. Will she keep her family for the sake of her two beloved children? Or will she choose to passionately fall in love again?

Colma, the University Chancellor, is a popular man with great reputation. He was deeply attracted by the Chinese woman¡¦s grace and elegance that Rue-jan possessed. Will he use his influence to get Rue-jan a full-time position at the University? How will their love affair develop and what will it turn into?

After Rue-jan Fang recommended Tze-ying Duan for a position at the University, the two women met, provided emotional support for each other, and got to know each other well. What caused them to begin to hate each other, become rivalries, and split up the friendship? In the story, Between Parting and Goodbye, each person has a reason to live. So who is good? Who is bad? Who is right? Who is wrong?

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Lihua Yu is an internationally renowned Chinese American author whose other work, Palm Tree Revisited, was selected as one of the Top 100 Chinese Literature of the 20th Century. Her earlier works were mainly focused on the experiences of Taiwan students in America back in the 1960¡¦s, of their struggling and hardworking stories on school works, relationships, and careers that these people faced in a foreign land. The vast emotional expressions of her characters grabbed the hearts of many readers, and won her the honorable title of ¡§the Ancestor of foreign student literature.¡¨ Lately her works have been more focused on the Chinese culture and locale, emphasizing the cultural traditions of minority cultures. As her books¡¦ popularity swept across China, a Lihua Yu Lecture Series was specially set up at the Hunan University.

Ms. Yu graduated from the History Department of National Taiwan University in 1953. Her articles had already been published in the Literary Magazine while she was still in school. In 1956 she received her Masters in News Media from UCLA, and won the first place Literary Arts Award sponsorted by MGM with her English short novel, Sorrow on the Yang Tze River. In 1962 she became known to the literary world with her long novel, Dream of Blue River. She then continued to publish novels such as Stars on the Snowy Field and Children of the Fu Family that have become popular works that people still talk about today, almost forty years later. In 2000 her first essay collection, Leaving Slenger Park was published and selected as China Time¡¦s Recommended Reading.

In 1968, Ms. Yu began teaching Chinese Literature at the SUNY ¡V Albany, making herself a scholar along side being a writer. After her retirement, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and continued her writing. Between Parting and Goodbye is another long novel since The Fallen of an Angel published in 1996.

¡§Ms. Yu is a master at the usage of Chinese characters. The people she has created through her writing can be seen, heard, and felt by readers through its realism and livelihood.¡¨ Commented an essay writer from Singapore, summarizing Ms. Yu¡¦s creativity and style of writing.

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• ISBN 10: 1929400608
• ISBN 13: 9781929400607
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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