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\"Last<\/a>Through loosely connected short stories, Wang’s second collection straddles both worlds of her native China with her adopted America \u2013 and the undefinable spaces in between. From the young Chinese girl who sees too much in “Where the Poppies Blow,” to the naive immigrant struggling to understand her new world in the title story, to the bewildered older immigrant who returns to his an unrecognizable Beijing in “The Homecoming of an Old Beijing Man,” Wang explores the new fluidity of the modern immigrant experience where borders are anything but static.<\/p>\n

Building Bridges: The Dual Life of Wang Ping: An Interview
\nThe one thing the admirably prolific Wang Ping\u00a0hasn\u2019t yet written is her memoir. Not that a few\u00a0details here and there of her astonishing life story\u00a0haven\u2019t made their way into her eight published\u00a0books, but I\u2019m certain her readers would appreciate\u00a0hearing much more than the glimpse I can offer here.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Born in Shanghai to a naval officer father and a\u00a0music teacher mother, Wang grew up on a small island\u00a0in the East China Sea. When the disastrous Cultural\u00a0Revolution began in 1966, Wang was in the second\u00a0grade. Life as she had known it ended then, when her\u00a0parents were imprisoned and tortured, leaving Wang\u00a0and her younger siblings to be brought up by their\u00a0grandmother. Her formal education, too, was over, as\u00a0Chairman Mao\u2019s government tried to purge the country\u00a0of literature and art \u2013\u00a0anything that smacked of\u00a0what was considered representative of the liberal West. … [click here for more<\/a>]\n

Author interview<\/strong>:\u00a0The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2008<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Building Bridges: The Dual Life of Wang Ping: An Interview
\nThe one thing the admirably prolific Wang Ping hasn\u2019t yet written is her memoir. Not that a few details here and there of her astonishing life story haven\u2019t made their way into her eight published books, but I\u2019m certain her readers would appreciate hearing much more than the glimpse I can offer here. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Born in Shanghai to a naval officer father and a music teacher mother, Wang grew up on a small island in the East China Sea. When the disastrous Cultural Revolution began in 1966, Wang was in the second grade. Life as she had known it ended then, when her parents were imprisoned and tortured, leaving Wang and her younger siblings to be brought up by their grandmother. Her formal education, too, was over, as Chairman Mao\u2019s government tried to purge the country of literature and art \u2013 anything that smacked of what was considered representative of the liberal West. … [click here for more<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Author interview<\/strong>: The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2008<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n

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