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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 782.1092 EAN: 9780470056417 ISBN: 047005641X Label: Wiley Manufacturer: Wiley Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: April 21, 2008 Publisher: Wiley Studio: Wiley Editorial Review: Product Description: Since his 1991 debut at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Hao Jiang Tian has appeared on the world’s greatest stages, more than 300 times at the Met alone. How he got there is a drama of bittersweet humor, mortal danger, heartbreaking tragedy, and inspiring triumph—more passionate and turbulent than even the grandest opera. In Along the Roaring River, Tian relives his coming of age in China during the chaotic Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s and his dramatic journey from hard labor in a Beijing factory to international opera stardom. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Recovering the naturalA great book, and if you've ever heard Hao Jiang Tian sing in an opera house, the human dimension of his story of survival and eventual triumph becomes even truer and more exciting. This memoir is a beautiful introduction to a superb artist, and a fine singer. Tian's determination and bravery in the pursuit of his art despite enormous challenges is a lesson for every artist. Engagingly written, Along the Roaring River details Tian's awakening before and after the Cultural Revolution, the noble tragedy ... Read More Rating: - A rare look at how the cultural revolution really affected peopleAmericans seldom get an inside look into the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Here is one of the best as seen through the eyes of a sensitive and caring artist.The book is also a frank honest appraisal of what it takes for a person to break out of China to seek a new life in the West. It shows the enormous difficulty that the average Chinese immigrant faces in mastering a professional level of English. It is also a tender personal story of love andpersonal achievement flowering under extremely difficult ... Read More Rating: - great bookEven if you are not an opera buff, this book is fascinating as it takes you through the history of China and its cultural revolution. Rating: - Along the roaring river is a riveting readHao Jiang Tian's journey is masterfully told in his own voice by Lois Morris. She has captured his electric personality that brought him to America from a time and place steeped in iconic imagery - Mao's oxymoronic cultural revolution that sent intellectuals and artists, such as Tian, to work in fields and factories. It is a story full of losses, near misses and miracles. That Tian has arrived in America to sing Major rolls at the Metropolitan Opera but still holds dear his attachments to his home country ... Read More Rating: - Educational and movingKnowing little about either what it is like to grow up in China or Opera, this book was riveting for me. Tian goes in depth about both of these topics and i truly feel as if i know him and his family now! Tian's journey reminds us that no matter where in the world people come from and how foreign they may seem, we are ultimately the same and seeking the same things in life. I am motivated to learn more about opera and have plans to go to my first one at the Central City Opera in Colorado he so passionately ... Read More |
