BABA: A Return to China Upon My Father's Shoulders. by Yang, Belle. Preface by Amy Tan - (1994)

New York:: Harcourt Brace & Company,, (1994). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The artist / author's first book, one in which she retells her father`s story of his coming-of-age in northern China in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the fourth son of a prominent Manchurian family and his odyssey included the years of the Japanese occupation of China, the Russian onslaught upon Northeastern China and the civil war that followed. Illustrated throughout with beautiful full page watercolor paintings by the author as well as many black and white drawings. Preface by Amy Tan. SIGNED by both Belle Yang and Amy Tan on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. Large square format. 211 pp plus a final portrait of her father.