Yellow River, Green Mountains

Author: Zhang Yi'an
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Publish Date: 2001-06-01
Features: This is a grand-scale memoir, encompassing the author's early military experiences, his working and studying in the United States during his youth, and everything in between. It is also a remarkably insightful "big history," examining the modern Chinese revolution and encompassing the entire historical process of Chinese history over thousands of years. Huang Renyu conveys to us the magnificent historical perspective shaped by his long-standing culture, even though he has his critiques of it. His writing is clear and straightforward, making it accessible to even those with no background. Perhaps for this very reason, the great American writer Philip Roth described his writing as possessing a Kafkaesque dreamlike quality.