What does it mean to be "thrice alien"? Isabelle Zimmer Maynard is one who knows. Born in 1929 in Tientsin, China, Maynard was the only child of Russian Jewish parents who had fled the Communists and sought refuge in this teeming city on the North China Sea. They subsequently survived the Japanese invasion of China and ultimately escaped to San Francisco when the Chinese Communists seized power. China Dreams, like a string of beguiling pearls, is a collection of autobiographical stories of an amazing childhood. Maynard's ...
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What does it mean to be "thrice alien"? Isabelle Zimmer Maynard is one who knows. Born in 1929 in Tientsin, China, Maynard was the only child of Russian Jewish parents who had fled the Communists and sought refuge in this teeming city on the North China Sea. They subsequently survived the Japanese invasion of China and ultimately escaped to San Francisco when the Chinese Communists seized power. China Dreams, like a string of beguiling pearls, is a collection of autobiographical stories of an amazing childhood. Maynard's ability to reconstruct her world in the moment will delight and enchant readers. She says, "I have carried China all my life. I do not claim accuracy of history - only accuracy of the heart." Her keen eye and fetching wit provide an arresting, poignant, highly personal portrait of a now-vanished world once shared by thousands of European Jews.
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Very Good. 6 X 0.5 X 8.75 inches VERY GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT; TURQUOISE TITLES ON RED PAPER COVERS SHOWING OLD B&W PHOTO OF LITTLE GIRL, HER TOYS AND LARGE TOY ROOSTER..; 186 pages; 26 beautifully written vignettes, playwright and oral historian Maynard tells the story of her experiences growing up Jewish in pre-Communist China. Maynard's father was a wealthy Jew who fled Communist Russia in the early 1920s to wait out the Revolution in Tientsin. There he met and married Maynard's mother, another Russian Jew, and in 1929, Isabelle Maynard was born to the doting couple.
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