Reader Mailbag: Chinese Subject Matter in ‘The Great Divide’

Rosalina writes: 

Recently I borrowed The Great Divide from my local library in New Zealand. I was so hooked into reading it that I ended up purchasing a copy which I have re-read several times.

The Chinese subject matter interested me greatly as my mother grew up in China (we are not Chinese) and I also belong to a China Friendship Association in NZ and naturally I do have Chinese friends.

You handled the Chinese side of things beautifully and it was a topic that needed to be written about.

Dear Rosalina,

It is amazing and gratifying to know that my words have reached your distant corner of the globe, and even more so to learn the story resonated with someone who has this bond to China. My wife’s graduate thesis was based upon this issue, and her research is embedded in virtually every page.