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White Tiger: An Autobiography of Yang Xianyi
by
Xianyi Yang
,
Yang Xianyi
It all began with a dream. A young woman saw a white tiger leap into her lap. It was both auspicious and unlucky -- her son, the fortune-teller said, would grow up with no brothers, and his father's health would be endangered by his birth. That son, however, would have a distinguished career, after going through many misfortunes and dangers.The dream was prophetic. The chi
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Hardcover
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328 pages
Published
April 9th 2003
by Chinese University Press
(first published March 19th 2002)
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Yang Xianyi was one of the most important people in my life from the time I met him through Geremie Barmé at the start of the 1980s in Beijing. I wrote about my memories of him and his wife Gladys in the online China Heritage Quarterly, which devoted an entire issue (March 2011) to this remarkable man. Below is the link to my essay but I encourage you to peruse the other tributes and recollections as well. Vale Xianyi. I miss you.
http://www.chinaheritagequarterly.org...
(ps and thank you, Brenda ...more
http://www.chinaheritagequarterly.org...
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