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1 online resource (ix, 307 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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Gender group: gdr Women |
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Occupational/field of activity group: occ English teachers |
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Occupational/field of activity group: occ University and college faculty members |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
"There are only two ways to live our life, according to Albert Einstein: one is as if nothing is a miracle, the other, as if everything is a miracle. Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi is a book how the impossible became possible, things that happened to me in China and America, to the people I grew up with, met and befriended along my journeys between the Yangtze and Mississippi. This is also a story about water, alive with spirits and energy, giving births to all sentient beings. We are water. The river runs through us. Those who live in harmony with water can ride the current of the universe-the secret of Tao, reaching all the way to the sea of miracles, one story, one droplet, and one wave at a time. Miracle is a state of mind, a way of living: how we face hardship, pain and tragedies, how we transform them into fuels for our journey, and transcend them to joy and hope. It's a book how ordinary people perform miracles every day, how we are touched, touching, all the time, across oceans and continents, across time and space, through our stories"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
I. What's in a miracle?. Life along the Yangtze and Mississippi -- Chinese toilet -- Aurora Borealis -- Ten bodies -- Tough love -- Allen Ginsberg's apology for Buddha -- II. Into the Three Gorges. Biggest dam on Earth -- Xiao Family Village -- Wanzhou orchids -- Last nail in the dam -- Maverick in Three Gorges -- Road to joy -- Morning cloud, evening rain -- Petition -- III. All roads to Lhasa. Tiger Leaping Gorge -- Lhasa Square -- Old home -- Grand Canal of China -- Kelisu diner -- Bridging Yangtze and Mississippi--kinship of rivers -- IV. Great river road. Gypsies at the Cahokia Mound -- Alton ghosts -- BMW -- Fig tree of Cairo -- V. Five tastes of the Mississippi. Memphis : ribs, pyramid & Magnolia grandiflora -- Great crossroads -- Choctaw Island -- Basin keeper from Atchafalaya -- End of the bird's foot -- VI. We are water. We are water -- Coda : my kintsugi. |
| Awards |
Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction, 2017. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wang, Ping, 1957- -- Travel -- China -- Yangtze River Valley.
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Wang, Ping, 1957- |
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Travel. |
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China -- Yangtze River Valley. |
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Wang, Ping, 1957- -- Travel -- Mississippi River Valley.
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Mississippi River Valley. |
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Yangtze River Valley (China) -- Description and travel.
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Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel.
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Yangtze River Valley (China) -- Social life and customs.
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Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wang, Ping, 1957- Life of miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi. Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2018] 9780820353920 (DLC) 2018003971 (OCoLC)1030914216 |
| ISBN |
9780820353937 (electronic book) |
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0820353930 (electronic book) |
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9780820353920 |
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0820353922 |
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