Yellow River, Green Mountains -- A Series of Works by Huang Renyu

Author: Yu-hsin Huang, translated by Yi'an Zhang
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Features: This is a grand-scale memoir covering the author's early military experiences, his midlife work and studies in the United States, and everything in between. It is also a visionary examination of China's modern revolution from the perspective of a "big history" that encompasses thousands of years of Chinese history. Huang conveys to us his expansive historical worldview, shaped by a long-standing culture—even though he is not without criticism 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.