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- catalog abstract "What does it mean to be "thrice alien"? Isabelle Zimmer Maynard is one who knows. Born in 1929 in Tientsin, China, Maynard was the only child of Russian Jewish parents who had fled the Communists and sought refuge in this teeming city on the North China Sea. They subsequently survived the Japanese invasion of China and ultimately escaped to San Francisco when the Chinese Communists seized power. China Dreams, like a string of beguiling pearls, is a collection of. Autobiographical stories of an amazing childhood. Maynard's ability to reconstruct her world in the moment will delight and enchant readers. She says, "I have carried China all my life. I do not claim accuracy of history - only accuracy of the heart." Her keen eye and fetching wit provide an arresting, poignant, highly personal portrait of a now-vanished world once shared by thousands of European Jews.".
- catalog contributor b9675294.
- catalog coverage "Tianjin (China) Biography.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Autobiographical stories of an amazing childhood. Maynard's ability to reconstruct her world in the moment will delight and enchant readers. She says, "I have carried China all my life. I do not claim accuracy of history - only accuracy of the heart." Her keen eye and fetching wit provide an arresting, poignant, highly personal portrait of a now-vanished world once shared by thousands of European Jews.".
- catalog description "What does it mean to be "thrice alien"? Isabelle Zimmer Maynard is one who knows. Born in 1929 in Tientsin, China, Maynard was the only child of Russian Jewish parents who had fled the Communists and sought refuge in this teeming city on the North China Sea. They subsequently survived the Japanese invasion of China and ultimately escaped to San Francisco when the Chinese Communists seized power. China Dreams, like a string of beguiling pearls, is a collection of.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 166 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "China dreams.".
- catalog identifier "0877455627 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0877455716 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "China dreams.".
- catalog isPartOf "Singular lives".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,".
- catalog relation "China dreams.".
- catalog spatial "China Tianjin".
- catalog spatial "Tianjin (China) Biography.".
- catalog subject "951/.154004924/00922 B 20".
- catalog subject "DS135.C5 M39 1996".
- catalog subject "Jews China Tianjin Biography.".
- catalog title "China dreams : growing up Jewish in Tientsin / by Isabelle Maynard ; foreword by Albert E Stone.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".