China dreams :growing up Jewish in Tientsin
- 作者: Maynard, Isabelle,
- 出版: Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press ©1996.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xviii, 166 pages) :illustrations.
- 叢書名: Singular lives
- 標題: Jews , Jews. , Biographies. , HISTORY. , BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Historical. , Historical. , China Tianjin. , China , Tianjin (China) Biography. , Electronic books. , BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY , Tianjin (China) , Jews China -- Tianjin -- Biography.
- ISBN: 1587291444 , 9781587291449
- ISBN: 0877455627 , 0877455716 , 9780877455622 , 9780877455714
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- 摘要: 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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An unusually structured memoir reflecting an equally unique childhood. Maynard paints her youth as a Russian Jewish emigre in Tientsin, China, with short, broad strokes, recreating conversations and events in short vignettes and vividly conveying the "alien" community separated from the Chinese and each other by virtue of the difference none seem prepared to bridge. The characters, a British diplomat's wife and daughter, the anti-semitic Russian Orthodox Christians, the French nuns, all take on a new life through the author's sure footed and sensitive prose. Includes photographs. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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