The Long March

The Long March, in Poetry

The Long March is a collection of poems, in different styles and from various viewpoints, narrating the adventures of the soldiers and commanders of the Chinese Red Army in 1934-36 when, under heavy Nationalist pressure, they abandoned their bases in southeast and central China and struck for Yan’an in the northwest. 

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Children of the Jade Dragon

Children of the Jade Dragon

     The Naxi and the Yi are two of the most important ethnic minorities in northwest Yunnan. The Naxi provided troops for frontier military services during the days of Imperial China and absorbed influences from both their Han and Tibetan neighbors. They also maintained their own ritual specialists, called dongba, and kept books written with their unique pictographs. The Yi were formerly a highly stratified, slave-holding society, virtually autonomous until the late 1950s in their Cool Mountains stronghold. They also had ritual specialists, called bìmaw, as well as books written in their own ancient script. Despite change and the developments of modernization, both peoples have striven to preserve much of their customs and traditions, as well as their keen sense of ethnic identity.

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The Koiran Tales

The Koiran Tales

     Residing in Seoul in the mid-70s, Michael is having trouble with his girlfriend. In spite of efforts to understand her country, its history and culture, whenever the affair seems to reach a new level of harmony she inexplicably disappears for a few days. In order to cope with his emotions at such times he takes up writing his war memoirs, of how he discovered an isolated mountain people, unaffected by war and the turmoil of the outside world, who were suddenly destroyed by a natural disaster just after he left them. As his life continues in Korea his tales begin to affect his relationships with the people around him, while the sudden appearance of his former commanding officer provokes a new crisis in his life.


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