Rainbow Across the Pacific: American Writers and Chinese Culture

Author: Zhang Hong
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: The black waves of the Pacific separate the two great nations of China and the United States. The sky often rolls with dark clouds, fog, thunder, and lightning, but the soul of literature transforms into an immortal bird, crossing all of this. Thus, the rainbow spans the turbulent, bridging communication between the two sides. Do you know? Jack London once depicted the hunched figures of Chinese immigrants in his works; Eugene O'Neill's plays have featured symbols of the yin and yang of Tai Chi; Hemingway, who visited China, was locked in confinement yet still studying the Four Books and Five Classics; and there are many other writers and poets who have tirelessly sought the points of difference and convergence between the two nations and their cultures. This book will tell you about them and their literary worlds—and will also tell you that though the rainbow may fade, it rises as the embodiment of people's best wishes.