Vessel : a memoir / Cai Chongda ; translated from the Chinese by Dylan Levi King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cai, Chongda, 1982- author.

Contributor:

King, Dylan Levi, translator.

Standardized Title:

Pi nang. English

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Cai, Chongda, 1982-.

Cai, Chongda.

Cai, Chongda, 1982---Family.

Working class families.

Fujian Sheng (China)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Fujian Sheng (China).

Working class families--China--Fujian Sheng.

Dongshi Zhen (China)--Biography.

Dongshi Zhen (China).

Families.

Manners and customs.

China--Fujian Sheng.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

298 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First HarperVia hardcover [edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021.

Language Note:

Text in English, translated from the Chinese.

Summary:

"An unprecedented and heartfelt memoir that illuminates the lives of rural Chinese workers, offering a portrait of generational strife, family, love, and loss that crosses cultures and time. Cai Chongda spent his childhood in a rural fishing village in Fujian province. When his father-a former communist gang leader turned gas station owner-has a stroke that partially paralyzes him, his responsibilities fall to Cai, his only son. Assuming his new role as head of the family, Cai toils alongside his mother and older sister to pay the medical bills that have become a part of a rapidly changing Chinese society. As Cai works his way through university and moves to Beijing, eventually becoming a director of GQ China, he finds his life increasingly at odds with the family he supports but has left behind. Like The Glass Castle and Hillbilly Elegy, Vessel neither romanticizes nor condemns the people and circumstances that shaped a young man's life, but instead offers a way forward, revealing how tradition can enrich modern life."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Vessel

2. My Mother's House

3. Frailty

4. Christmas In The Icu

5. Friends In High Places

6. Bella Zhang

7. Tiny And Tiny

8. Wenzhan

9. Hope

10. You Can't Hide The Ocean

11. A Thousand Identical Cities

12. The Question We All Must Answer Eventually

13. Homecoming

14. Where Is This Train Going?.

Notes:

"Originally published as Pinang in China in 2014 by Guomai Culture and Media Co. Ltd."--Title page verso.

Other Format:

Online version: Cai, Chongda, 1982- Pi nang. English. Vessel.

ISBN:

9780063038004

0063038005

9780063038011

0063038013

OCLC:

1221013900