Seeking Home in China: Lyndon's Story
by (us) Linden
About This Novel
"Searching for China" is Brian Lyndon's memoir of 35 years of living in China. This is an American "Chinese Dream" story. The author details how China has changed his life over the past thirty years, vividly demonstrating his personal exploration, understanding, and integration into China as well as his emotional changes during the process. During the thirty years of his association with China, Linden and his family have witnessed the development of China. In 1984, Linden was cleaning carpets while attending night school in Chicago. By chance, he won a Chinese government scholarship, came to China to study, and experienced China's reform and opening up in the 1980s. During his arrival in Beijing, he studied Chinese, starred in movies, became a photojournalist, entered Nanjing University Johns Hopkins Research Center for graduate studies and met his wife. This valuable experience enabled him to return to the United States as a doctoral candidate at Stanford University. In 2004, he returned to China with his wife and two young sons and took root in Xizhou, Yunnan. He devoted himself to protecting and restoring China's (national) material cultural heritage and founded the "Xilinyuan" hotel brand. Linden participated in the exploration and development of the inner texture of Chinese rural areas and became a practitioner of international education, connecting China and the world so that more foreigners and Chinese can have a deeper understanding of the real China.
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A life changed by a Chinese leaflet.
What were you doing in 1984? Was born? In 1984, Lyndon, an American work-study college student studying at the University of Illinois Community College in Chicago, saw a flyer for a Chinese scholarship program at a Chinese university in the university window and decided to go to China. Get rid of the future of carpet cleaners, golf caddies, and salespeople. From 1984 to 1989, his footprints were all over China. Today, all popular travel destinations, including Xinjiang, Yunnan, Gansu, and Inner Mongolia, not to mention the north, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Guangxi, can be reached by carriage, bus, or train. At a time when no Chinese could travel easily, I traveled all over China. In 1987, because of his study of Chinese, he received graduate scholarships from Nanjing University and the Sino-American Cultural Research Center of Johns Hopkins University. In 1989, because of his study experience in China, he received a doctoral application from Stanford University. Since 1990, he has been engaged in international education in more than 60 countries around the world. He returned to China in 1996 and founded Dali Xilin Garden in 2005. The children are homeschooled in Dali. Many Dali friends must have been to the English Corner in Caicun. A very interesting book. Life is like a Chinese leaflet at the corner. What changed was the life of a poor student in Chicago, America. Everyone's circumstances are different. Many friends ask me how to plan their children's lives. All I can say is to take it one step at a time. Born and nurtured. Focus on the present moment. Respect your child's wishes. Every child has his or her own path. As parents, you can only be yourself and be the best role model for your children.
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A life changed by a Chinese leaflet.
What were you doing in 1984? Was born? In 1984, Lyndon, an American work-study college student studying at the University of Illinois Community College in Chicago, saw a flyer for a Chinese scholarship program at a Chinese university in the university window and decided to go to China. Get rid of the future of carpet cleaners, golf caddies, and salespeople. From 1984 to 1989, his footprints were all over China. Today, all popular travel destinations, including Xinjiang, Yunnan, Gansu, and Inner Mongolia, not to mention the north, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Guangxi, can be reached by carriage, bus, or train. At a time when no Chinese could travel easily, I traveled all over China. In 1987, because of his study of Chinese, he received graduate scholarships from Nanjing University and the Sino-American Cultural Research Center of Johns Hopkins University. In 1989, because of his study experience in China, he received a doctoral application from Stanford University. Since 1990, he has been engaged in international education in more than 60 countries around the world. He returned to China in 1996 and founded Dali Xilin Garden in 2005. The children are homeschooled in Dali. Many Dali friends must have been to the English Corner in Caicun. A very interesting book. Life is like a Chinese leaflet at the corner. What changed was the life of a poor student in Chicago, America. Everyone's circumstances are different. Many friends ask me how to plan their children's lives. All I can say is to take it one step at a time. Born and nurtured. Focus on the present moment. Respect your child's wishes. Every child has his or her own path. As parents, you can only be yourself and be the best role model for your children.
