Love in a Fallen City Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee (2000) incredible lessons and stories of

incredible lessons and stories of life-changing encounters with art emerge

A passionate and persuasive call for education reform

Here he can teach the kids about wars and witch hunts as if he'd never witnessed them first-hand

In the aftermath of the Vietnam War

the challenges can be overwhelming

Love in a Fallen City Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee (2000) incredible lessons and stories ofEileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fictiontales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when Chang was still in her twenties, these extraordinary stories combine an unsettled, probing, utterly contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual