In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp

Authors

Er Tai Gao, Author and Activist
Robert Dorsett, Author

Document Type

Lecture

Publication Date

12-2-2009

Publisher

Black Mountain Institute; UNLV Department of English

Abstract

Er Tai Gao and Robert Dorsett read from Gao's memoir: In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp. Dorsett translated the memoir into English, and Gao is an author, painter, critic, and Chinese dissident. He was the City of Asylum Las Vegas writer-in-residence from 2003 to 2006 and continues to live in Las Vegas.

Keywords

Autobiography; China; Nevada – Las Vegas; Oral interpretation; Political refugees

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Asian Studies | Comparative Literature | East Asian Languages and Societies | History | Modern Literature | Political History

Language

English

Comments

Barrick Museum Auditorium, UNLV

Video File size: 319 megabytes

Audio file size: 26.8 megabytes

Repository Citation

Gao, E. T., Dorsett, R. (2009). In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/blackmountain_lectures_events/61