The Early Arrival Of Dreams: A Year in China
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.

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The Early Arrival Of Dreams: A Year in China
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.

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The Early Arrival Of Dreams: A Year in China

The Early Arrival Of Dreams: A Year in China

by Rosemary Mahoney
The Early Arrival Of Dreams: A Year in China

The Early Arrival Of Dreams: A Year in China

by Rosemary Mahoney

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780618035496
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 02/12/2003
Edition description: First Mariner Books Edition
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

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.

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