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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
      Published 13 March 2001
      ISBN-13 9781566491006
      978-1566491006
      ISBN-10 1566491002

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      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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