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Title Statement | A song everlasting / Ha Jin. |
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Author | Jin, Ha, 1956- |
Publication | ©2021New York: Pantheon Books,[2021] |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 336 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781524748791 152474879X |
Other Number | 4079859 |
Summary | After popular singer Yao Tian takes a private gig in New York at the end of a tour with his state-supported choir, expecting to pick up some extra cash for his daughter's tuition fund, the consequences of his choice spiral out of control. On his return to China, he is informed that the sponsors of the event were in support of Taiwan's secession and that he must deliver a formal self-criticism. When he is asked to forfeit his passport to his employer, he impulsively decides instead to return to New York to protest the government's threat to his artistic integrity. With the help of his old friend, Yabin, Tian's career begins to flourish in the United States. Soon placed on a government blacklist and thwarted by the State at every turn, it becomes increasingly clear that he may never return to China unless he denounces the freedoms that have made his new life possible. But Tian nevertheless insists on his identity as a performer, refusing to give up his art. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Government, Resistance to--Fiction |
Blacklisting of entertainers--Fiction | |
Exiles--Fiction | |
Chinese--Fiction--United States | |
Singers--Fiction | |
By Location | New York (N.Y.)--Fiction |