My China: The Metamorphosis of a Country and a Man - Hardcover

Taught Chinese in the US Army during World War II, Sidney Shapiro arrives in Shanghai in 1947 for 'a look around.' He spends the rest of his life in China. A foreigner in an alien land, he falls in love with and marries Phoenix, a Chinese beauty and active revolutionary, entranced by Chinese culture and society. He gradually becomes deeply involved in highly dramatic developments-the People's Republic, Land Reform, communes and the Big Leap Forward, the 'cultural revolution.' the event at Tiananmen, coping with foreign pressures, the creation of a 'socialism with Chinese characteristics'. His literary translations, ranging from the classical to the modern, have won international acclaim. His own works include Jews in Old China: Studies by Chinese Scholars. The Law and Lore of Chinese Criminal Justice, and his autobiography My China: The Metamorphosis of a Country and a Man.