The Phoenix Song
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The Phoenix Song

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The Phoenix Song

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A young violin prodigy grows up in Harbin and Shanghai amidst the absurd and often deadly politics of mid-century China. Under the dual influences of her revolutionary parents and the White Russian intellectuals who are her tutors (and who provide her with a link, personal and tragic, to the composer Dmitri Shostakovich) she is drawn into a precarious world of ideology and espionage where music must serve not only 'the masses', but also the unpredictable whims and grand strategies of great leaders. Moving between China, Europe and New Zealand, the young protagonist learns how music and its artefacts link individuals across time in a chain alternately transcendent and tragic, and encounters the compromises that talent, fate and family force upon her.

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Publisher
Victoria University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780864738745
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Historical Fiction
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Phoenix - Feng-Huang
  7. Door Mouth
  8. Harbin 1937
  9. The Bolshoi Prospekt
  10. Loveā€™s Song
  11. Happiness
  12. Passacaglia
  13. Shanghai 1955
  14. Flowers
  15. Cultural Labours
  16. The Year of Miracles
  17. The Liberation of Mudanjiang
  18. A Child of History
  19. The Phoenix Sings
  20. Acknowledgements
  21. A note on the pronunciation of Chinese words