Ten Thousand Waves - Wang Ping

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Résumé :
Looking at a wide swath of Chinese history and literature, this collection examines various issues stemming from immigration to America. Wang Ping conveys the voices of centuries of farmers and factory labourers, revolutionaries, writers, artists, and craftsmen. She has a unique gift for telling small stories with powerful emotional effects.

Biographie:
Ping Wang is a translator, a photographer, and an award-winning author of books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. She is an English professor at Macalester College, USA and the recipient of the Eugene Kaden Award, the Asian American Studies Award, the Minnesota Book Award, and prizes from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bush Foundation, the McKnight Foundation and the Loft Literary Center, the Lannan Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, the New York State Council for the Arts, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Her books include Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China, American Visa, The Dragon Emperor , and Of Flesh & Spirit . Ruthann Godollei is an illustrator who currently teaches printmaking at Macalester College, USA. She has taught courses in two-dimensional design, women's and gender studies, political art, and performance and installation art. They both live in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.