Donald C. Lee

Eclipse of the Bright Moon (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In a plea for political reform, Chinese students and workers alike take matters into their own hands by running poster campaigns, holding demonstrations, and protesting the communist party. But when the government begins to feel threatened by the activists, the peaceful protests lead to riots and what is now known in history as the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

In mid-April 1989, Dan Norton was finishing up his year as a professor at Shaanxi Teachers University. Little did he know that in two weeks' time, he would be sought out by the police under threat of Chinese prison. After receiving documents politically sensitive to the Chinese government, harboring a fugitive, and being accused of engaging in espionage, Dan is torn between his aggressive Marine Corps background and the desire to follow a Buddhist lifestyle. He is also faced with the decision to flee to America or to stand with his students.

Meanwhile, Yingying and her boyfriend, Mingyue, both disobey their fathers' strict orders to avoid all political activity. They instead lead the students and workers in demonstrations and almost lose their lives in the process; many times. China is turned upside down, but can the efforts of a professor and a young Chinese couple really make a change?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CamCat Books
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780744303285
• Artikelnr.: 61618499

Autorenporträt

Born in San Francisco in 1936, Donald C. Lee received his BA in History and Philosophy at Pomona College. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Tübingen, Germany. After serving as a Marine Corps Officer in Okinawa and the Philippines and studying French at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, he earned a master's degree in Philosophy at Berkeley-during the Free Speech Movement and anti-war protests-and a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He taught Philosophy at the University of New Mexico for twenty-five years and at Shaanxi Teachers University in Xi'an, China, the year ending in the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Author of academic books, articles, and reviews, he turned to fiction in his retirement years. He enjoys snorkeling, traveling, hiking, and lives in Kirkland, Washington.