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Tianyi is a painter and writer whose life coincides with perhaps the most turbulent era in China's vast history. Raised in a world whose ageless traditions were on an irreversible collision course with modernity and the West, Tianyi heads to Paris on a scholarship at the age of 23. Upon his return after nine years, he finds the China he had cherished in his memory is almost unrecognisable. Arrested as a Western 'sympathiser', Tianyi becomes an exile in his own country.

The River Below

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A Hardback by Francois Cheng, Julia S. Smith

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    Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers,US
    Publication Date: 13/03/2001
    ISBN13: 9781566491006, 978-1566491006
    ISBN10: 1566491002

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Tianyi is a painter and writer whose life coincides with perhaps the most turbulent era in China's vast history. Raised in a world whose ageless traditions were on an irreversible collision course with modernity and the West, Tianyi heads to Paris on a scholarship at the age of 23. Upon his return after nine years, he finds the China he had cherished in his memory is almost unrecognisable. Arrested as a Western 'sympathiser', Tianyi becomes an exile in his own country.

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