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1 online resource (xviii, 166 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Singular lives
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Singular lives.
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Summary |
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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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Jews -- China -- Tianjin -- Biography.
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Jews. |
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China -- Tianjin. |
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Tianjin (China) -- Biography.
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Maynard, Isabelle, 1929- China dreams. Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, ©1996 0877455627 (DLC) 96024321 (OCoLC)34782766 |
ISBN |
1587291444 (electronic book) |
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9781587291449 (electronic book) |
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0877455627 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0877455716 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780877455622 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780877455714 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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