A review by tresdem
A Chinese Life by Philippe Ôtié, Li Kunwu

4.0

I enjoyed it. I can't say that I "got" all of it, but it was a pretty interesting read and I think the art style was well suited to the story it was telling (which, naturally, considering it's the story of the artist). It really sort of lost me at the end where it went off into different characters, but I liked the way it approached topics, especially ones like Tianamen, explaining why they were going around it, but in an authentic way. While I can't exactly agree with the pov character's viewpoints on certain things, I like that he has them and is not just a kind of Westernized view of what a Chinese person should do, or think, or feel.