Edna Wu

It is a rare book about a Chinese woman's metamorphosis through cultural conflicts in love adventures. It contains five chapters. Chapter One, "Searching for the Music of the Soul", captures the amorous encounter of two professors on a California campus. It is deeply psychological and thrilling in the vortex of self-contradictions of the protagonist concerning a woman's quest for friendship, love, and self-identity. Chapter Two, "On the Wings," registers the narrator's first quixotic but promising adventures in America. Chapter Three, "An Ugly Duckling's Swan Song", reveals her culture shocks, agonies and setbacks on American campuses as a graduate student and her rebellious childhood in China with her father as a figure of communist authority and traditional patriarchy. Chapter Four, "Sex =/=Love?", shows how the protagonist Yun, a female Don Juan, embarks on the road to spiritual liberation through the separation of sex from love. In the final chapter, "A Separate Utopia", Yun has gone through purgation in the hell of East-West value conflicts. Does she find a utopia of her own?

It is a rare book about a Chinese woman's metamorphosis through cultural conflicts in love adventures. It contains five chapters. Chapter One, "Searching for the Music of the Soul", captures the amorous encounter of two professors on a California campus. It is deeply psychological and thrilling in the vortex of self-contradictions of the protagonist concerning a woman's quest for friendship, love, and self-identity. Chapter Two, "On the Wings," registers the narrator's first quixotic but promising adventures in America. Chapter Three, "An Ugly Duckling's Swan Song", reveals her culture shocks, agonies and setbacks on American campuses as a graduate student and her rebellious childhood in China with her father as a figure of communist authority and traditional patriarchy. Chapter Four, "Sex =/=Love?", shows how the protagonist Yun, a female Don Juan, embarks on the road to spiritual liberation through the separation of sex from love. In the final chapter, "A Separate Utopia", Yun has gone through purgation in the hell of East-West value conflicts. Does she find a utopia of her own?

Traditional Chinese Version. Published by New World Poetry (New World Books Series No. 36). First Chinese translation of the great book known as Clouds and Rain: A China-to America Memoir. With fantastic reviews and comments from famous scholars and critic and collected by major libraries. The translation reads beautiful and sensational. Yunyu Qing: Clouds & Rain is a groundbreaking novel about a Chinese woman's sensual journey into American life, a fascinating story of Yun who wades through numerous cultural shocks such as obesity, plagiarism and homophobia, and explores life's enigma on sex and love. Does sex = love or ? love? Erotic and playful. Amazingly frank and disturbing...

Traditional Chinese Version: ISBN 918-1-888065-55-8. Published by New World Poetry (New World Books Series No. 36). First Chinese translation of the great book known as Clouds and Rain: A China-to America Memoir. With fantastic reviews and comments from famous scholars and critic and collected by major libraries. The translation reads beautiful and sensational. Yunyu Qing: Clouds & Rain is a groundbreaking novel about a Chinese woman's sensual journey into American life, a fascinating story of Yun who wades through numerous cultural shocks such as obesity, plagiarism and homophobia, and explores life's enigma on sex and love. Does sex = love or ? love? Erotic and playful. Amazingly frank and disturbing...

Published by New World Poetry (New World Books Series No. 36). First Chinese translation of the great book known as Clouds and Rain: A China-to America Memoir. With fantastic reviews and comments from famous scholars and critic and collected by major libraries. The translation reads beautiful and sensational. Yunyu Qing: Clouds & Rain is a groundbreaking novel about a Chinese woman's sensual journey into American life, a fascinating story of Yun who wades through numerous cultural shocks such as obesity, plagiarism and homophobia, and explores life's enigma on sex and love. Does sex = love or ? love? Erotic and playful. Amazingly frank and disturbing...

ISBN 978-1-63227-057-3 Published by New World Poetry (New World Books Series No. 36) Yunyu Qing: Clouds & Rain 《云雨情》is a groundbreaking novel about a Chinese woman's sensual journey into American life, a fascinating story of Yun who wades through numerous cultural shocks such as obesity, plagiarism and homophobia, and explores life's enigma on sex and love. Does sex = love or ? love? Erotic and playful. Amazingly frank and disturbing... It contains five chapters, totaling 248 pages.