- Home
- Non-Fiction
- Chinese Brushstrokes
Hutchison paints a vibrant picture of post-Mao China ...
--Carsey Yee, Quill & Quire
Sandra Hutchison writes with authority and grace, detail and insight. Hers is a rare gift.
--Michael Fitzgerald
Sandra Hutchison's lovingly rendered Chinese Brushstrokes . . . evokes an otherness that brought me to an immediate awareness of the kind of citizenship we all now share in this oddly unfamiliar globalvillage that has become our home.
--Ross Woodman
In the autumn of 1988, nine months before the Tiananmen Uprising, Sandra Hutchison traveled to Anhui Province, China, to teach English literature. Her students shared with her their dreams, their hopes, and their lives, and she, in turn, embraced their culture as fully as any outsider could.
One balmy night in spring, she was awakened by the sounds of students banging pots and shouting slogans. Two months later, she would leave China at the urging of the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, the anguished tear-stained faces of students who had camped in Tiananmen Square forever engraved in her mind. Hutchison would return to China three more times, unable to forget the country she loved.
Chinese Brushstrokes tells of her pilgrimage to the top of a holy Buddhist mountain, a sojourn in a village deep in the Chinese countryside, encounters with local peasants and famous artists, and the rise of the Democracy Movement in Beijing, Shanghai and Heifei. Hutchison takes the reader to the heart of China as she immerses herself in a culture filled with beauty and contradictions.
Turnstone Press Ltd.
206-100 Arthur Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
R3B 1H3