Ultimate Journey (Magill’s Literary Annual 2002)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Bernstein
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Memoirs, history, and travel
- Time of Work: 1999
- Setting: China, Pakistan, and India
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Travel writing, History
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Traveling or travelers, Twentieth century, Asia or Asians, India or East Indian people, 1990’s, China or Chinese people, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Buddhism, Pakistan or Pakistanis
- Locales: China, India, Pakistan
Richard Bernstein, an accomplished journalist and author, was a student of Chinese language and history at Harvard. In 1980, he opened Time magazine’s Beijing bureau, the journal’s first in China since the Communist revolution of 1949. By the late 1990’s, he was a book critic for the New York Times. In his fifties and unmarried, he had been in a romantic relationship with a Chinese classical dancer named Zhongmei Li, but there was no permanent commitment because of Bernstein’s indecisiveness. He states that in the desire to get away from the ordinary and the...
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