Research Catalog

Title

Big in China : my unlikely adventures raising a family, playing the blues, and becoming a star in Beijing / Alan Paul.

Author

Paul, Alan, 1966-

Publication

New York: Harper, c2011.

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Holdings

Details

Description

x, 262 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Based on the Wall Street journal online column, "The expat life", Alan Paul tells his story of moving his family to Beijing and becoming an unlikely success as a blues musician there.

Subject

• Paul, Alan, 1966-
• Journalists > United States > Biography
• Journalists > Beijing > Biography
• Blues musicians > Beijing > Biography
• Stay-at-home fathers > Beijing > Biography
• Americans > Beijing > Biography
• Journalists > United States > Biography
• Journalists > China > Biography
• Blues music > China > Biography
• Americans > China > Biography
• Beijing (China) > Social life and customs
• Beijing (China) > Biography
• China > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue -- Come to the edge -- That's what love will make you do -- Across the great divide -- Beautiful sorta -- Say what? -- Key to the highway -- When you feel it, you know -- Into the great wide open -- Sad and deep as you -- No particular place to go -- Lonesome and a long way from home -- Can't lose what you never had -- Cast off all my fears -- Let it grow -- Visible man -- Into the mystic -- Bringing it all back home -- Bit by bit (little by little) -- Them changes -- I will dare -- Teach your children -- The house is rocking -- You ain't going nowhere -- Giant steps -- Come and go blues -- Mountain high, river deep -- Beijing blues -- Games people play -- Big in China -- Bittersweet surrender -- Tick tock -- Baby please don't go -- Tomorrow never knows -- Epilogue: I shall return.

ISBN

• 9780061993152 (hc.) :
• 0061993158 (hc.) :

OCLC

• 641532184
• SCSB-12887851

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library