Family Time Audiobooks Series - Love at Harvard

Author: Hongda Ethernet Cultural Development Co., Ltd.
Publisher: Hongda Ethernet Cultural Development Co., Ltd.
Publication Date: 1901-01-01
Features: A truly meaningful audiobook that provides a brand-new, more casual, and relaxed reading experience in an accessible form, allowing readers to free their hands and rest their eyes while reading anytime, anywhere. It enables people to absorb knowledge and improve their literacy in a leisurely reading style. Ms. Wang Zhengjun, originally engaged in education in Beijing, was invited by Harvard University in the mid-1980s and went to the United States with her husband, joining the North American Branch of the World Chinese Writers Association and serving as a council member of the New England Regional Council. The author is passionate about poetry writing and won the Golden Bull Award from the U.S. International Daily in 1996. In 1998, she published the poetry collection Beautiful Harvard... Love in Harvard is a masterpiece that has been long-accumulated and meticulously crafted. Love in Harvard is a scholar novel where the author showcases the wisdom and depth of a scholar, the inclusiveness of a translator, the subtlety of an essayist, and the vitality of a journalist. She is a highly unique writer in today's Chinese literary scene. The author of Love in Harvard is similar to the American novelist Henry James, focusing her artistic attention on expatriates living abroad. It is a work rich in poetic connotations. In its distinctive style and Joyce-like poetry, it contains profound reflections on history and humanity. Love in Harvard is a long novel written by Wang Zhengjun, a Chinese-American writer. Set against the backdrop of Harvard University in the United States and the Zhongguancun area of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the novel explores the joys and sorrows between two generations of Chinese people in China and the United States, presenting readers with a turbulent of Chinese struggle. At the same time, it uses sharp satire to expose the dark aspects of American society and the superficial and decadent side of American culture. It is a substantial modern novel. The novel portrays a group of vivid and diverse characters. In addition to Shi Sen and Rita, Shi Cheng, Anna, Smith, and Zhang Hui are also well-developed and distinct in personality. Compared to the older generation of Chinese who went to the United States, their emotional world is depicted with delicacy and depth; the younger generation, from obtaining visas to surviving abroad, faces unfamiliarity, novelty, struggle, and effort, even doubt and confusion, all of which are vivid and authentic. Overall, the novel composes a fresh and beautiful cross-cultural love song, vividly depicting the different destinies of two generations of Chinese people who went to the United States. Love in Harvard emphasizes the psychological portrayal and of the main characters, focusing on the release of their passionate emotions, while also paying attention to the narrative, description, and dialogue. For example, after Shi Sen returns to China, his mother passes away. He sorts through his mother's childhood belongings, such as his "foreskin," tiger-head shoes, and six pairs of layered-soled shoes, as well as memories of childhood customs like "catching years." Although the tone is calm and stagnant, it is infused with a deep sense of grief, which aligns with the complex emotions of the character at the time and is rich in cultural significance. (Original: Wang Zhengjun Narrated: Yu Jin Duration: 41 hours)