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03816aam a2200541 i 4500 001 0A7F36E4C48911EDAC2163E35EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230317010022 008 180223t20182018nyuabf 001 0aeng 010 $a 2017055946 020 $a 0231188404 020 $a 9780231188401 035 $a (OCoLC)1013721376 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d YDX $d PFLCL $d ZHB $d VA@ $d OCLCO $d YUS $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d JDP $d OCLCO $d OCL $d IAY $d OCLCO $d TJC $d OCLCO $d ITD $d COH $d OCLCO $d NZAUC $d NJT $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCL $d IL4J6 $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h chi 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ch--- $a a-ch--- 050 00 $a PL2892.3.B36 $b Z4613 2018 100 1 $a Qi, Bangyuan, $e author. 240 10 $a Ju liu he. $l English 245 14 $a The great flowing river : $b a memoir of China, from Manchuria to Taiwan / $c Chi Pang-yuan ; edited and translated by John Balcom ; with an introduction by David Der-wei Wang. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xxv, 436 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, map $c 24 cm 520 $a " ... In this eloquent autobiography, the noted scholar, writer, and teacher Chi Pang-yuan recounts her youth in mainland China and adulthood in Taiwan. Chi's remarkable life, told in rich and striking detail, humanizes the eventful and turbulent times in which she lived. The Great Flowing River begins as a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of China's war with Japan. Chi depicts her childhood in pre-occupation Manchuria and gives an eyewitness account of life in China during the war with Japan. She tells the tale of her youthful romance with a dashing pilot that ends tragically when he is shot down in the last days of the war. The book describes the deepening political divide in China and her choice to take a job in Taiwan, where she would remain after the Communist victory. Chi details her growth as an educator, scholar, and promoter of Chinese literature in translation and her realization that despite her roots in China, she has found a home in Taiwan, giving an immersive account of the postwar history of Taiwan from a mainlander's perspective ..."--Jacket. 500 $a Translated from the Chinese. 500 $a Includes index. 505 0 $a My homeland in song -- A journey of blood and tears : the eight years of the war of resistance -- With me, China shall not perish : Nankai Middle School -- At the confluence of three rivers : university life -- Victory : empty, everything is empty -- Taiwan trials and hardships -- Spiritual descendants -- University teaching, Taiwan, and literature -- Confirmation of this life : from the great flowing river to the sea of silence. 600 10 $a Qi, Bangyuan. 600 17 $a Qi, Bangyuan. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01987053 648 7 $a Since 1900 $2 fast 650 0 $a Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945. 650 0 $a Authors, Chinese $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 7 $a Authors, Chinese. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00821889 651 0 $a China $x History $y Civil War, 1945-1949. 651 0 $a China $x History $y 1949- 651 0 $a Taiwan $x History $y 1945- 651 7 $a China. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 651 7 $a Taiwan. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01207854 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919894 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a Qi, Bangyuan. $t Great flowing river. $d New York : Columbia University Press, 2018 $z 9780231547819 $w (DLC) 2018013656 700 1 $a Balcom, John, $e translator. $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117021633.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0A7F36E4C48911EDAC2163E35EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search