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A Little Tiger in the Chinese Night
An Autobiography in Art
Written by Song Nan Zhang
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Imprint: Tundra Books
Format: Trade Paperback
Pub Date: September 1995
Age: 10 UP
Trim Size: 9 x 9-1/2
# of Pages: 48 pages
ISBN: 978-0-88776-356-4 (0-88776-356-1)
CDN Price: $9.99 / US Price: $8.95 |
In 1944, when Song Nan Zhang was not yet three, he saw a baby tiger outside the hut in the mountains where he and his mother were living. The tiger returned twice before disappearing into the bamboo forest forever. For a child to see a tiger meant luck, but Song Nan Zhang wasn’t sure if living in China was lucky or not. Life was so difficult that sometimes he felt like the lost tiger itself, hoping for a home only to be forced back into the dark.
In this, his autobiography, Song Nan Zhang paints the dispersal of his family, his development as an artist, the humor that lightened some of the more difficult times, and finally, his journey to Canada.
“His descriptions of life in China, in both prose and paintings…offer an excellent introduction to the modern history of a complex country.”
–School Library Journal
Song Nan Zhang was born in Shanghai. He received a Masters degree from the Beijing Central Institute of Fine Arts, and his paintings have been exhibited in galleries around the world. Song Nan Zhang lives in Montreal. His son, Hao Yu, was born in Beijing and arrived in Montreal with his parents in 1990. He has a journalism degree from Concordia University and has written for the Montreal Gazette. He now lives in London, England, and works for the BBC.
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