BABA : A Return To China Upon My Fatherýs Shoulders

by Yang, Belle

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San Diego, CA: Harvest Books/Harcourt Brace, 1996. BRAND NEW Copy w/faint creasing to lower front corner. Stated First Edition. An impressive and poetic portraiture of a father. It is of Baba (Papa in English) Joseph Yang in 1930s and 1940s China; a song of words and painted visions by a daughter. Japanese invasion of China with the establishment of last Ch'ing Emperor Pu-yi as a puppet regime in Manchuria (home of Baba), an area already swelled with White Russians refugees following disposement of the Tsar. Base firmed, invasion of China proper began in 1937. Popularly known as the Sino-Japanese War, it is the beginning of World War II on the Eastern Front, time wise, some five years before Pearl Harbor. This is the story of Baba, it is the story of war, it is the story of innocence lost, it is a story of resiliency, and, it is the story of what has been bequeathed to a loving daughter. The watercolor paintings are of great artistry. One color plate shows a tranquil rural setting with bombs falling far off; it is said that peasants, who well understood bullets, first thought bombs were no more than and odd phenomenon of bottles falling from the heavens! Fine copy.. First Edition, First Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine/None as Issued.