Deep in the Mountains : An Encounter with Zhu Qizhan

by Cheng, Terrence

• ISBN13: 9780823004232
• ISBN10: 0823004236
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-15
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Summary

The great Chinese artist Zhu Qizhan was born in 1892 and lived to be 105ears old. During his life, he witnessed the fall of the Qing Dynasty, theivil War, the Japan's occupation of China, the Cultural Revolution...a fullifetime, packed with struggle, love, conflict and art. When the story begins,hu, the teller of tales, is 100 years old, still wanting to create,xperimenting with form and colour. A lonely boy from the other side of thearth enters Zhu's world and through the artist's stories of the past, theresent and the future, the boy learns who he is and what he can become inhis beautiful, haunting story of growing up and accepting life's challenges and its joys.

Author Biography

Terrence Cheng’s first novel, Sons of Heaven, was universally critically acclaimed. Publishers Weekly said it is "a rare find: historical and political without being pedantic, and briskly entertaining without being cheap, simplistic, or contrived," while Library Journal called it "a ripping good story." Cheng was a James Michener Fellow at the University of Miami, where he earned his MFA. He lives in New York City.