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My Travels in Ding Yi is an epic novel told from the perspective of a nomadic spirit named Shi who inhabits a Chinese boy living in the second half of the 20th century. Shi describes coming of age during the Cultural Revolution in language that dips and soars from crude to lyrical, often in a single breath.5/5(2). My Travels in Ding Yi is an epic novel told from the perspective of a nomadic spirit named Shi who inhabits a Chinese boy living in the second half of the 20th century. Shi describes coming of age during the Cultural Revolution in language that dips and soars from crude to lyrical, often in a single breath.  · My Travels in Ding Yi is an epic novel told from the perspective of a spirit who inhabits an array of beings in different places and times. From Adam in the Garden of Eden, to a fish, to the novel’s protagonist, Ding Yi, an average Chinese boy in the second half of the 20th century. Shi Tiesheng () was one of the most prominent.

Find many great new used options and get the best deals for My Travels in Ding Yi by Shi Tiesheng (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Shi Tiesheng () was one of the most prominent Chinese writers of the second half of the 20th century. Born in Beijing in , he attended Tsinghua University High School before being sent down to Yan'an, Shaanxi province as part of the Cultural Revolution campaign to re-educate urban youths in the countryside. Much of the book is about how he observes Ding Yi, not always accepting what Ding Yi does, trying, often unsuccessfully, to influence Ding Yi in his behaviour and commenting endlessly to us, to Shi Tiesheng and to Ding Yi. Ding Yi is alive during the Cultural Revolution and, as he is outspoken, gets into trouble.

Shi Tiesheng: 我的丁一之旅 (My Travels in Ding Yi) Ding Yi is not, as might seem to be the case from the title, a place, but a person. The traveller in question is an unnamed spirit who occupies the bodies of various people. He started, in fact, with Adam, and was there, in the Garden of Eden, when Eve gave Adam the apple. Description. My Travels in Ding Yi is an epic novel told from the perspective of a spirit who inhabits an array of beings in different places and times. From Adam in the Garden of Eden, to a fish, to the novel’s protagonist, Ding Yi, an average Chinese boy in the second half of the 20th century. In he published My Sojourn in Ding Yi (我的丁一之旅), about an immortal spirit that inhabits the bodies of a succession of people, including Adam, Shi Tiesheng himself, and the book's hero, Ding Yi. An English translation of this novel was published by Sinoist Books in