Alex Kuo
Autor von My Private China
Über den Autor
Bildnachweis: from Washington State University faculty page
Werke von Alex Kuo
Zugehörige Werke
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Mitwirkender — 172 Exemplare
Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction (1993) — Mitwirkender — 158 Exemplare
Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Poets (1983) — Mitwirkender — 28 Exemplare
Getagged
Wissenswertes
- Geburtstag
- 1941
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Land (für Karte)
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Wohnorte
- Chongqing, China
Shanghai, China
Hong Kong - Ausbildung
- Knox College (BA)
University of Iowa (MFA) - Berufe
- English professor, Washington State University
Mitglieder
Rezensionen
Auszeichnungen
Dir gefällt vielleicht auch
Nahestehende Autoren
Statistikseite
- Werke
- 10
- Auch von
- 3
- Mitglieder
- 51
- Beliebtheit
- #311,767
- Bewertung
- 3.4
- Rezensionen
- 16
- ISBNs
- 13
Of course I was interested in the average life of the average Chinese.
The first time I started reading this book, I was put off by the first chaper and decided to put it aside for (much) later reading.
Well, that 'later' has now come.
Still the same dislike of the first chapter and of the general contents of the book. I was expecting an account of every day life in China, but what I read ware rephrased interviews with high(er) ranking Chinese, accounts of bridge games. I have no idea how to play, so I even skipped a few pages in these chapters.
The chapter I liked best was The Re-Taking of Hong Kong, where photographs finally showed some ordinary people and made comparispn possible between old and new, then and now.
I had expected more of this book.… (mehr)