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Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 211 p. Audience: General/trade.

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 211 p. Audience: General/trade.

4to-over 9¾-12" tall Fine in a fine jacket. Signed by the author in Chinese idioms and in English "Belle Yang ' 94" boldly in felt pen on blank end paper.

4to-over 9¾-12" tall Fine in a fine jacket. Signed by the author in Chinese idioms and in English "Belle Yang ' 94" boldly in felt pen on blank end paper.

INSCRIPTION IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH ALONG WITH DRAWINGS BY AUTHOR, ALSO SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.

INSCRIPTION IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH ALONG WITH DRAWINGS BY AUTHOR, ALSO SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 211 p. Audience: General/trade.

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 211 p. Audience: General/trade.

The format is approximately 9 inches by 9 inches. xx, [4], 211, [3] pages. DJ

The format is approximately 9 inches by 9 inches. xx, [4], 211, [3] pages. DJ is price clipped. Illustrations (color). Preface by Amy Tan. The daughter of a man who grew up in wartime Manchuria describes his experiences as the fourth child of seven during the Japanese occupation and relates the influences of the human and spiritual figures in his life. Belle Yang (born 1960) is an artist, author, graphic novelist and children's book writer. Yang was born in Taiwan in 1960. She graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz, then enrolled in art school. She spent three years in China, traveling the country and studying history and classical Chinese art. Once home, she started recording her parents' stories of their life in China, and that led to her first book, Baba, A Return to China Upon My Father's Shoulders, in 1994. The book was about her father, Joseph Yang, walking out of a 1940s war-torn China. Author Amy Tan, who wrote the foreword to Baba, says that "Belle Yang is an American writer who writes in English and thinks in Chinese". Maxine Hong Kingston compared Yang's art and writing to that of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Marc Chagall. In 1996, Yang wrote a second book about her father's exodus from China, Odyssey of a Manchurian. She completed the trilogy, in 2010, with publication of the graphic novel Forget Sorrow, An Ancestral Tale. Yang has had numerous museum exhibitions, including a national tour in its third year, Crossing Cultures: Belle Yang, A Story of Immigration. She is the subject of a film documentary that has been telecast on public television, My Name Is Belle. Derived from a Kirkus review: With poetic prose and vivid watercolors, Yang has created a rich portrait of life in China during the 1930s and '40s. Yang chronicles her Baba's (or Daddy's) boyhood and adolescence in 20 tales, each preceded by a watercolor. Baba was the fourth son in the eighth generation of the wealthy House of Yang, and his landscape teems with physical and spiritual dangers. He's threatened by torrential rains, ravenous wolves, red-bearded bandits, famines, demons, Japanese bombs, Russian troops, Communists, Nationalists, even an arranged marriage. When Baba is six, his family is forced out of their Manchurian homeland after the Japanese invasion. They move to China proper, then return five years later when Baba's father loses his job with a mining company. They live under the protective patronage of the family Patriarch until a bloody tug-of-war between followers of Mao and Chiang Kai-shek rends the family and country apart. Ancient legends, political upheavals, and religious ceremonies define Baba's youth. Storytellers teach him about gods and demons, prodigal sons, and the ghosts of the improperly buried. Their wisdom then plays out in his own life as Baba witnesses the goddess of Mercy protect his mother from marauding invaders; the troubled ways of one of his older brothers; and a 49-day funeral ceremony ensuring his great-great-grandfather safe passage to Heaven. The tension between ancient rituals and modern reality elevates these tales from the merely beautiful into an astonishing personal vision, and a unique portrait emerges of a culture straddling thousands of years. Yang's work is like a lovely painted scroll swimming with wild souls, beasts, birds, flowers, day and night sky, tragedy, and hope.