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The Children of China
An Artist's Journey
Song Nan Zhang
Tundra · Print & ebook · April 25, 1998
Reading lane: Asia for Kids
Before coming to Canada, while he was still an art teacher in Beijing, Song Nan Zhang traveled from Inner Mongolia east, south, and north to find and paint unusual scenes of Chinese family life.
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Who It's For
Book Details
- Authors
- Song Nan Zhang
- Publisher
- Tundra
- Published
- April 25, 1998
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Asia for Kids · Asian History for Kids
- Reading lane
- Asia for Kids
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Publisher Categories
Artists' Lives for Kids
Asian American Life (U.S.)
Grandfamilies & Generations
About This Book
Before coming to Canada, while he was still an art teacher in Beijing, Song Nan Zhang traveled from Inner Mongolia east, south, and north to find and paint unusual scenes of Chinese family life. Here are the children who grow up in the saddle with their nomadic parents or become as agile as the mountain goats they tend. A boy plays chess on the ground with his shepherd grandfather. A teenager tends her father’s pottery shop. At festivals a child plays hide-and-seek, behind y...
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