The Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year In China - Hardcover

Mahoney, Rosemary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0449905527 ISBN 13: 9780449905524

Publisher: Fawcett, 1990

Synopsis

One year before the protests in Tiananmen Square, Rosemary Mahoney participated in a teaching exchange between Harvard and Hangzhou University. At Hangzhou she was able to overcome her students' usual rigidity and achieve a rare and intimate glimpse of their culture and their attitudes. This remarkable memoir captures both the dreams and the grim realities her Chinese students faced within the confines of an oppressive political regime.

About this title

About the Author:

ROSEMARY MAHONEY is the author of Whoredom in Kimmage, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the New York Times Notable Book The Early Arrival of Dreams. The recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, she lives in Rhode Island.

From Library Journal:

Mahoney's book has the form of books such as Mark Saltzman's Iron and Silk ( LJ 2/1/87, and one of LJ 's "Best Books of 1987"): the teacher or student abroad discovers Chinese society as seen through a year in one of its darkest corners, a provincial foreign languages department. To Mahoney, China is at times baffling, infuriating, and repellent. Her Chinese characters have the intensity of a medieval miniature, incised with short taut strokes of saturated color, while the deployment of incident, rhythm of character revelation, and development of the narrator are those of a crafty novelist. Since Mahoney discovers that to love China is to weep, her book is not the heartwarming one Saltzman's was; it is a deeper, more difficult, and perhaps a more lasting evocation of the country. Highly recommended for public library collections.
- Charles W. Hayford, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, Ill.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Fawcett
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0449905527
• ISBN 13: 9780449905524
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 325