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The Difference in Butterflies|Yung Yung Tsuai

The Difference in Butterflies : A Chinese dancer's memoir of her flight from inner and outer tyranny

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In 1970 Yung Yung arrives in New York City where it is rare to see a young Asian woman outside of Chinatown. Modern Dance icon Martha Graham has recruited Yung Yung while on a visit to Taipei where the brilliant young dancer's story begins. Yung Yung, who could not imagine life beyond her invisible cage, is suddenly free of the political dictator Chiang Kai-shek and the backstage parents she'd supported since early childhood. In this memoir we experience the fall and resurrection of a professional dancer/choreographer who, with the help of Martha Graham and an unconventional psychotherapist Shepherd Hoodwin, escapes outer and inner tyranny, to find passionate love and the ultimate-identity as her own woman: free to be.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780595473250
  • ISBN-10: 0595473253
  • Publisher: iUniverse
  • Publish Date: November 2007
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.45 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.65 pounds
  • Page Count: 196

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