LEADER 04328cam 2200541 i 4500001 on1030914216 003 OCoLC 005 20181025145211.2 008 180515s2018 gauaf s000 0deng c 010 2018003971 019 1030970541 020 9780820353920 |qpaperback 020 0820353922 |qpaperback 020 |z9780820353937 |qelectronic book 035 (Sirsi) 40028835231 035 40028835231 035 (OCoLC)1030914216 |z(OCoLC)1030970541 040 LBSOR/DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dYDX |dBDX |dOBE |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 a-ccg--n-usm-- 050 00 PS3573.A4769 |bZ46 2018 082 00 813/.54 |223 100 1 Wang, Ping, |d1957- |eauthor. |=^A465138 245 10 Life of miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi / |cWang Ping. 264 1 Athens, Georgia : |bThe University of Georgia Press, |c[2018] 300 ix, 307 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations ; |c23 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 520 "There are only two ways to live our life, according to Albert Einstein: one is as if nothing is a miracle, the other, as if everything is a miracle. Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi is a book how the impossible became possible, things that happened to me in China and America, to the people I grew up with, met and befriended along my journeys between the Yangtze and Mississippi. This is also a story about water, alive with spirits and energy, giving births to all sentient beings. We are water. The river runs through us. Those who live in harmony with water can ride the current of the universe-the secret of Tao, reaching all the way to the sea of miracles, one story, one droplet, and one wave at a time. Miracle is a state of mind, a way of living: how we face hardship, pain and tragedies, how we transform them into fuels for our journey, and transcend them to joy and hope. It's a book how ordinary people perform miracles every day, how we are touched, touching, all the time, across oceans and continents, across time and space, through our stories"-- |cProvided by publisher. 505 0 I. What's in a miracle?. Life along the Yangtze and Mississippi -- The Chinese toilet -- Aurora Borealis -- Ten bodies -- Tough love -- Allen Ginsberg's apology for Buddha -- II. Into the Three Gorges. The biggest dam on Earth -- Xiao Family Village -- Wanzhou orchids -- The last nail in the dam -- Maverick in Three Gorges -- The road to joy -- Morning cloud, evening rain -- Petition -- III. All roads to Lhasa. The Tiger Leaping Gorge -- Lhasa Square -- Old home -- The Grand Canal of China -- Kelisu diner -- Bridging Yangtze and Mississippi--kinship of rivers -- IV. The great river road. Gypsies at the Cahokia Mound -- Alton ghosts -- BMW -- The fig tree of Cairo -- V. Five tastes of the Mississippi. Memphis : ribs, pyramid & Magnolia grandiflora -- The great crossroads -- Choctaw Island -- The basin keeper from Atchafalaya -- The end of the bird's foot -- VI. We are water. We are water -- Coda : my kintsugi. 586 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction, 2017. 600 10 Wang, Ping, |d1957- |xTravel |zChina |zYangtze River Valley. |=^A465138 600 10 Wang, Ping, |d1957- |xTravel |zMississippi River Valley. |=^A465138 600 17 Wang, Ping, |d1957- |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01516653 |?UNAUTHORIZED 651 0 Yangtze River Valley (China) |xDescription and travel. |=^A837922 651 0 Mississippi River Valley |xDescription and travel. |=^A65548 651 0 Yangtze River Valley (China) |xSocial life and customs. |=^A837922 651 0 Mississippi River Valley |xSocial life and customs. |=^A36246 650 7 Manners and customs. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01007815 650 7 Travel. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01155558 651 7 China |zYangtze River Valley. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01275745 |?UNAUTHORIZED 651 7 Mississippi River Valley. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01240240 |?UNAUTHORIZED 949 |i30372016667898 |ojjlm 960 |o1 |s26.95 |tJoyner48 |uJAPP |zUSD 596 1 998 5071351