Mao' Shadows & Obsidian Paths in China - Traditional Chinese Vol.1: Poetry & Painting Volume I

by Shuming Zheng

Overview

The author is a Chinese American professor of Biomedical Engineering in the United States. Following her family tradition of learning poetry and painting, she expresses her love and respect for nature, combines expressions of ancient and modern poetry to express her love for her family and all those harmed by tyranny, and explores the injustices in China through her family members sufferings and deaths. The book "Mao's Shadows & Obsidian Paths in China" evoked a profound exploration of the human experience in the context of Nanjing, a city rich in history, culture, and complexity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798881167172
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	04/24/2024
Series:	Mao' Shadows & Obsidian Paths in China , #1
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

The author is a Chinese American professor of Biomedical Engineering in the United States. Following her family tradition of learning poetry and painting, she expresses her love and respect for nature, combines expressions of ancient and modern poetry to express her love for her family and all those harmed by tyranny, and explores the injustices in China through her family members sufferings and deaths. Her father, a professor and a translator for Allied Forces to Aid China in World War II before 1949, classified as a Counter-revolutionary rightest after criticized Mao Zedong’ policy and was beaten to death by Red Guards during Mao's Cultural Revolution. Due to CCP’s “Political Five Black Categories” family class policy, her 10-year-old sister was ill and died tragically after being denied any treatment by the hospital because she was a "Black Class Child". Mao died in 1976, all universities in the fall of 1977 started recruiting students after closed for more than 10 years during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. The author loves astrophysics, political and legal majors, but rejected, as those might involve national security issues. She was only allowed to apply for certain majors. Early Spring of 1978, she became a university student and graduated first with a bachelor's degree in 4 years and published two articles in professional journals. She then received a full scholarship from an American Professor (Fellow of the US Academy of Engineering) to study Biomedical Engineering and earned a doctorate in four years. As a tenured professor, the author has published more than a hundred articles in prestigious journals and book chapters and obtained patents with her name as the first author. However, because of not allowing to apply for political science in 1977 in China, which made the author determined to apply for a Public Policy degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government (HKS). Although the admission rate of HKS is extremely low, the author was admitted. She resigned from her tenured professorship and went to Harvard. The day she arrived at Harvard was the same day her daughter left Harvard, who earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and became an Attorney in the United States. After the author graduated from Harvard, she continued her tenured professorship and was appointed as the Associate Director of “The Center for Urban Politics and Policy”, her achievement was praised by the well-known magazine “Washington Monthly” in 2010.