Reviews for China in transition

The average rating for China in transition based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-07-15 00:00:00 Chantal Seremty What affected me the most about this book is how Jean was able to find pieces of her life and personal history by going back to China and exploring there when few white Americans were able to do so. This is the continuation of Jean's first novel, Homesick: My Own Story. She was born in China. Her American parents were over there working for the YMCA, and Jean lived there, in all its political turmoil and unrest, until she was 12. Both books are extremely fascinating. China Homecoming is about her return to China as a sixty-eight-year-old woman. She rediscovered the China she'd left behind so many years ago. She also rediscovered parts of herself and her childhood. They're pretty much Young Adult biography/non-fiction, but I highly, highly recommend these two books. Oh, they're so, so good! China Homecoming has a lot to do with Chinese history and I really think it's more interesting to adults. I wouldn't have been as interested in this book as a child, simply because I wasn't as into history as I am now. But really, no one should read the first and then NOT read the second. Both of them are a must'Fritz is a wonderful storyteller.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-01-25 00:00:00 AMEEN Ahmad I think I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book because I visited China with my parents in the mid 1980s and could relate to a lot of what Jean Fritz wrote about in her book China Homecoming. Jean and her family lived in China when she was a little girl, where her American father worked for the YMCA there. After moving to the US when Jean was about 11 years old, Jean had always dreamed of going back to visit. This is a story of Jean's struggle of getting permission of going back for a visit with her husband, and of her memories of her childhood home in China when she finally realizes her dream of returning to China.