Baba: A Return to China Upon My Father’s Shoulders

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Our Price: $28.00

Year: 1994
Pages: 213
Binding Hardcover
ISBN 151000638

Product Code: 756775728

Description

Belle Yang (au); Amy Tan (pf). Baba is “Papa” in Chinese, & this particular Baba is Joseph Yang, born in Manchuria in 1928. His daughter, Belle, a writer & visual artist who was born in Taiwan, set out to paint & to write Baba’s memories of his coming-of-age in northern China in the 1930s & 1940s. The result is the illustrated odyssey of the fourth of seven children in the House of Yang, a prominent Manchurian family, whose experience of the Japanese occupation, the Russian onslaught upon northeastern China, & the ensuing Chinese civil war makes for a spellbinding tale. Belle Yang brings us old China & new China, in art & vibrant prose. She senses the lost world of her father in Chinese, yet conveys all this with English, with poetry, with the universal power of language. Illustrations.

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