02132cam a22003254a 4500 75444 75444 BJBSDDR 20230410130521.0 ta 030606s2002 cc 000 0 eng 962996046X (pb.) 9629960702 (hb.) 13226848 DLC DLC spa eng pcc a-cc--- PL 2922 X6w 2002 418 Xianyi, Yang 1915-2009 White tiger : an autobiography of Yang Xianyi. Autobiography of Yang Xianyi Hong Kong : The Chinese University Press , 2002. xxvi, 302 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. "It all began with a dream. A young woman saw a white tiger leap into her lap. It was both auspicious and unlucky - her son, the fortune-teller said, would grow up with no brothers, and his father's health would be endangered by his birth. That son, however, would have a distinguished career, after going through many misfortunes and dangers." "The dream was prophetic. The child was his mother's only male child and his father died of illness when the boy was only five. He grew up during the wartime and period of political turmoil in China, passing through many troubles, and he has had a very distinguished career. He is Yang Xianyi, renowned scholar, translator and interpreter of Chinese and Western literature." "This delightful memoir of Yang Xianyi gives a candid and entertaining account of himself as a lighthearted and mischievous young man who immersed himself in the learning of European culture, ancient and modern, when he studied at Oxford in the 1930s. But it is also the illuminating self-portrait of a deeply patriotic intellectual living in a China under the throes of change, giving rare insight into the survival of a courageous, witty and principled individual during the harsh century of Chinese liberation."--BOOK JACKET. Yang, Xianyi, 1915-2009. Translators China Biography. Traductores China Biografía lcc BK YSL 0 0 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 0 PL 2922 X6w 2002 00000106481 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 BK