Between Two Shores

Between Two Shores
T L Tsim
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Trade Paperback
h229 x 152mm - 280pg
29 Oct 2021 HK
International import eta 7-19 days
9789882372375
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This is a story which begins in California and ends in China. It is a detective tale with a subtle love interest. Victor Lin, a Chinese-American died in mysterious circumstances on a trip to the Thousand Island Lake south of the city of Hangzhou. His wife Anne Gavin, an Irish-American, went to China to find out what really happened. In the course of her investigation, she teamed up with David Han, an academic from Hong Kong who also lost his sister in the same "accident". As the story unfolds, the reader is treated to an exploration of the Chinese mind torn between two cultures - the native Chinese culture and the culture of the West. At one level, this is a story about corruption, obsession, and the quest for closure. But running through the story is the soul-searching of David Han and the identity crisis he was going through. In the course of telling the story, Between Two Shores takes the reader behind the shroud that hides the Chinese persona and reveals the fears, aspirations, frustrations and underlying beliefs of the Chinese people. It splits open the archetypal "Chinese characteristics" to reveal the deep-seated motivations which underpin Chinese behavior. It is a very revealing book and goes to depths never before explored.
I' ve greatly enjoyed reading this. It' s a novel that deserves to reach a wide readership. . . the writing is convincing and moving on a subject of the greatest importance to today - the internal dynamics and confusions of the Chinese identity in a cosmopolitan world. --Professor John Minford, writer and translator of the best-selling Penguin Classic The Story of the Stone
Tsim Tak Lung writes under the name of T. L. Tsim. He read English literature at the University of Hong Kong and politics at the University of Manchester. He started his writing career at The South China Morning Post in Hong Kong with a column called One Man' s View . He also writes in the Chinese language and had, for many years, a weekly column in The Hong Kong Economic Journal. His Chinese essays on politics and culture were subsequently published in a series of six volumes entitled From Culture to Civilization (Oxford University Press in Hong Kong). He is also a broadcaster and political commentator and his most recent interview on Canada' s Real Vision Finance, Will the Hong Kong protests result in civil war? has attracted over 450,000 viewers worldwide.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9789882372375
Published: 29 Oct 2021
Published In: Hong Kong
Imprint: The Chinese University Press
Publisher: The Chinese University Press
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 666g
Pages: 280

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