Yellow River Green Mountains: A Memoir of Huang Renyu

Author: Ray Huang
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Publish Date: 2001-06-01
Features: This is a grand-scale memoir covering the author's early military experiences to his midlife working and studying in the United States. It is also a visionary "big history" that examines the modern Chinese revolution and encompasses thousands of years of Chinese historical progress. Huang conveys to us his expansive historical perspective, rooted in a long-standing culture, even though he has critiques of it. His writing is clear and accessible, making it understandable even for those with no background. Perhaps for this reason, the great American writer Philip Roth described his prose as possessing a Kafkaesque dreamlike quality.