Blurb from Orville Schell
For China hands of my generation, I'd venture to bet that you have Orville Schell's "To Get Rich is Glorious" on your bookshelf. I know it had a huge impact on me as cub reporter at The Inquirer.
So it is a true honor to have Mr. Schell endorse my book, saying:
"...a beautifully written elegy to that generation of foreign educated, humanist and often Christian Chinese who had begun to form a cosmopolitan class in China that was comfortable on both sides of the East/West divide and might have successfully led China from its cultural traditionalism into modernity. Instead, this class was savagely persecuted and then erased by Mao and his revolution, thus creating tens of thousands of family stories as heart-rendingly tragic as this one."
So it is a true honor to have Mr. Schell endorse my book, saying:
"...a beautifully written elegy to that generation of foreign educated, humanist and often Christian Chinese who had begun to form a cosmopolitan class in China that was comfortable on both sides of the East/West divide and might have successfully led China from its cultural traditionalism into modernity. Instead, this class was savagely persecuted and then erased by Mao and his revolution, thus creating tens of thousands of family stories as heart-rendingly tragic as this one."
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