Encounters with Chinese Writers Paperback / softback
by Annie Dillard
Paperback / softback
Description
It's been a pilgrimage for Annie Dillard: from Tinker Creek to the Galapagos Islands, the high Arctic, the Pacific Northwest, the Amazon Jungle-and now, China. This informative narrative is full of fascinating people: Chinese people, mostly writers, who encounter American writers in various bizarre circumstances in both China and the U.S. There is a toasting scene at a Chinese banquet; a portrait of a bitter, flirtatious diplomat at a dance hall; a formal meeting with Chinese writers; a conversation with an American businessman in a hotel lobby; an evening with long-suffering Chinese intellectuals in their house; a scene in the Beijing foreigners' compound with an excited European journalist; and a scene of unwarranted hilarity at the Beijing Library. In the U.S., there is Allen Ginsberg having a bewildering conversation in Disneyland with a Chinese journalist; there is the lovely and controversial writer Zhang Jie suiting abrupt mood changes to a variety of actions; and there is the fiercely spirited Jiange Zilong singing in a Connecticut dining room, eyes closed. These are real stories told with a warm and lively humor, with a keen eye for paradox, and with fresh insight into the human drama.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:117 pages, End-paper illus.
- Publisher:Wesleyan University Press
- Publication Date:01/11/1984
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- ISBN:9780819561565
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:117 pages, End-paper illus.
- Publisher:Wesleyan University Press
- Publication Date:01/11/1984
- Category:
- ISBN:9780819561565
