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The Great Flowing River : A Memoir of China, from Manchuria to Taiwan / Chi Pang-yuan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231188401
  • 9780231547819
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 895.18/5103 23
LOC classification:
  • PL2892.3.B36 Z4613 2018
  • PL2892.3.B36 Z4613 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- Translator's Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. My Homeland in Song -- 2. A Journey of Blood and Tears -- 3. With Me, China Shall Not Perish: Nankai Middle School -- 4. At the Confluence of Three Rivers: University Life -- 5. Victory: Empty, Everything Is Empty -- 6. Taiwan: Trials and Hardships -- 7. Spiritual Descendants -- 8. University Teaching, Taiwan, and Literature -- 9. Confirmation of This Life -- Index
Summary: Heralded as a literary masterpiece and a best-seller in the Chinese-speaking world, The Great Flowing River is a personal account of the history of modern China and Taiwan unlike any other. In this eloquent autobiography, the noted scholar, writer, and teacher Chi Pang-yuan recounts her youth in mainland China and adulthood in Taiwan. Chi's remarkable life, told in rich and striking detail, humanizes the eventful and turbulent times in which she lived.The Great Flowing River begins as a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of China's war with Japan. Chi depicts her childhood in pre-occupation Manchuria and gives an eyewitness account of life in China during the war with Japan. She tells the tale of her youthful romance with a dashing pilot that ends tragically when he is shot down in the last days of the war. The book describes the deepening political divide in China and her choice to take a job in Taiwan, where she would remain after the Communist victory. Chi details her growth as an educator, scholar, and promoter of Chinese literature in translation and her realization that despite her roots in China, she has found a home in Taiwan, giving an immersive account of the postwar history of Taiwan from a mainlander's perspective. A novelistic, epoch-defining narrative, The Great Flowing River unites the personal and intimate with the grand sweep of history.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- Translator's Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. My Homeland in Song -- 2. A Journey of Blood and Tears -- 3. With Me, China Shall Not Perish: Nankai Middle School -- 4. At the Confluence of Three Rivers: University Life -- 5. Victory: Empty, Everything Is Empty -- 6. Taiwan: Trials and Hardships -- 7. Spiritual Descendants -- 8. University Teaching, Taiwan, and Literature -- 9. Confirmation of This Life -- Index

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Heralded as a literary masterpiece and a best-seller in the Chinese-speaking world, The Great Flowing River is a personal account of the history of modern China and Taiwan unlike any other. In this eloquent autobiography, the noted scholar, writer, and teacher Chi Pang-yuan recounts her youth in mainland China and adulthood in Taiwan. Chi's remarkable life, told in rich and striking detail, humanizes the eventful and turbulent times in which she lived.The Great Flowing River begins as a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of China's war with Japan. Chi depicts her childhood in pre-occupation Manchuria and gives an eyewitness account of life in China during the war with Japan. She tells the tale of her youthful romance with a dashing pilot that ends tragically when he is shot down in the last days of the war. The book describes the deepening political divide in China and her choice to take a job in Taiwan, where she would remain after the Communist victory. Chi details her growth as an educator, scholar, and promoter of Chinese literature in translation and her realization that despite her roots in China, she has found a home in Taiwan, giving an immersive account of the postwar history of Taiwan from a mainlander's perspective. A novelistic, epoch-defining narrative, The Great Flowing River unites the personal and intimate with the grand sweep of history.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)