For decades, anthropologist Hill Gates had waited for an opportunity to get to know the citizens of China as she had done in Taiwan—face to face, over an extended period of time.

In Fact in Fiction, Kristin Stapleton puts Ba Jin's bestseller into full historical context, both to illustrate how it successfully portrays human experiences during the 1920s and to reveal its historical distortions.

Here is an unique and thrilling tale of her metamorphosis from one great civilization to another her struggles of adaptation, conflicts of identity and her accomplishments Cambridge, PhD in nuclear physics at age 24, Fellow at St Hilda's ...

The book undercuts official historiography and rewrites Chinese literary history from the ground up by highlighting Li’s resilient geopoetics of writing that decenters the nation by adopting the place-based view of a distant province.