
By Paul Ting
ISBN-10: 9881993490
ISBN-13: 9789881993496
Born in Fuzhou, PAUL TING left China while he used to be a pupil. Paul Ting has lived in Hong Kong, Germany, Spain, Canada and France and has a superb command of English, German, Spanish and French in addition to of his local language, chinese language. He graduated from the collage of Western Ontario, Canada with a B.A. (Hon.) measure in German literature. He has labored in very assorted destinations, together with an oil-rig close to the Alberta- Saskatchewan border, Canada and a logging camp in British Columbia, Canada. His occupations have assorted tremendously, together with for instance operating at Lufthansa, as a working laptop or computer salesman and because the chairman of a publicly-listed corporation in Hong Kong. He has traveled to over 90 nations and took part in numerous adventurous journeys, starting from hitch-hiking throughout Canada (from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland). he's married with a son and a daughter.
"Paul Ting's Bao Bao's Odyssey presents important first-hand descriptions of way of life in Mao's China within the 1950s-early Sixties, overlaying a chain of significant political and social occasions (such because the Hundred flora crusade, the nice breakthrough flow, and the famine) from a teenager's blameless but serious point of view. if you wish to have a greater realizing of China's merciless 'age of revolutions,' this can be a booklet worthy reading." — Chen Jian, writer of Mao's
China and the chilly conflict, Michael J. Zak Professor of heritage for US-China family, division of background, Cornell University
"In this splendidly illuminating e-book, Ting immerses us in Chairman Mao's China of 1958; the place his teenage protagonist confronts the Kafkaesque perceptions and misconceptions of the chilly conflict period. With an authoritative and genuine voice, Ting courses us in the course of the lifetime of adolescent Bao Bao, whose ambition to win a Nobel Prize for technology is susceptible to being thwarted by means of his family's bourgeois background. within the most sensible culture of historic fiction, the radical leaves us imbued within the interval; and the readers will lengthy hold part of Bao Bao and his quest with us. it might be challenging to overlook this attractive and heart-warming story." — Patricia W. gray, writer of demise Has one thousand Doors
"This booklet enriches our figuring out of Fifties Shanghai throughout the own tale of track Bao Bao." — Lee Pui-tak, President, The Asian reports organization of Hong Kong
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