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A Memoir of Misfortune
by Xiaokang, Su; Hong, Zhu (translator)
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375410392
- ISBN 13
- 9780375410390
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A Knop, 2001. First US Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Ex-Library First American Edition. Hardcover Ex-Library Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Except for minimal library stamps, in Very Good Condition. Clean, otherwise unmarked book, tight and solid binding, pages in Fine Condition. A compelling memoir by a young Chinese journalist who, in the 1980s, wrote a script for a TV series that probed the depths of Chinese beliefs and values so deeply that it stirred an intellectual debate on China-he was a leader of the democratic movement in China. Then, havIng survived the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, he became one of the regime's five most wanted criminals and was smuggled out of China. After two years he was able to have his family brought to America. After four years in America, thinking the worst was behind them, a terrible car accident brought personal tragedy. An extraordinarily moving memoir. 329 pages. 7.8" x 5.4". 2001, Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
Synopsis
Su Xiaokang was born in 1949 in China’s Zhejiang province. An investigative reporter who made a name for himself during the 1980s for tackling many sensitive subjects, he is best known as co-author of a six-part television series, River Elegy (1988), which caused widespread debate about political reform and China's future. It was this brief period of intellectual effervescence that ultimately led to the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4, 1989. Named number five on the government's wanted list, Su Xiaokang was smuggled to Hong Kong and then Paris before settling in 1990 in Princeton, New Jersey. ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR Zhu Hong, formerly of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is currently Visiting Professor at Boston University.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027576
- Title
- A Memoir of Misfortune
- Author
- Xiaokang, Su; Hong, Zhu (translator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375410392
- ISBN 13
- 9780375410390
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knop
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY CHINA, HISTORY
- Bookseller catalogs
- History. China;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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