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Along the Roaring River: My Wild Ride from Mao to the Met
by Hao Jiang Tian, Lois B. Morris
from Wiley

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• A rare look at how the cultural revolution really affected people
  Americans seldom get an inside look into the Chinese Cultural
  Revolution. Here is one of the best as seen through the eyes of a sensitive and caring artist.The book is also a frank honest appraisal of what it takes for a person to break out of China to seek a new life in the West. It shows the enormous difficulty that the average Chinese immigrant faces in mastering a professional level of English. It is also a tender personal story of love andpersonal achievement flowering under extremely difficult... more info

• great book
  Even if you are not an opera buff, this book is fascinating as it takes you through the history of China and its cultural revolution.

• Along the roaring river is a riveting read
  Hao Jiang Tian's journey is masterfully told in his own voice by Lois Morris. She has captured his electric personality that brought him to America from a time and place steeped in iconic imagery - Mao's oxymoronic cultural revolution that sent intellectuals and artists, such as Tian, to work in fields and factories. It is a story full of losses, near misses and miracles. That Tian has arrived in America to sing Major rolls at the Metropolitan Opera but still holds dear his attachments to his home country... more info

• Educational and moving
  Knowing little about either what it is like to grow up in China or Opera, this book was riveting for me. Tian goes in depth about both of these topics and i truly feel as if i know him and his family now! Tian's journey reminds us that no matter where in the world people come from and how foreign they may seem, we are ultimately the same and seeking the same things in life. I am motivated to learn more about opera and have plans to go to my first one at the Central City Opera in Colorado he so passionately... more info

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