City Gate, Open Up AUTH-4305371 In awe of the American

In awe of the American weapons and ships

Judeo-Christian and western philosophical perspectives

Few sword masters were to find their way to North America in time for the war

WETHERINGTON is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Southern Methodist University

City Gate, Open Up AUTH-4305371 In awe of the AmericanIn 2001, to visit his sick father, the exiled poet Bei Dao returned to his homeland for the first time in over twenty years. The city of his birth was totally unrecognizable. "My city that once was had vanished," he writes: "I was a foreigner in my hometown." The shock of this experience released a flood of memories and emotions that sparked Open Up, City Gate. In this lyrical autobiography of growing up from the birth of the People's Republic,