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Title: Explora Books to Showcase Wandering Lonely as a Cloud at the 2026 Beijing International Book Fair

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2nd Jun 2026 - Born in 1935 in Shanghai, Dr. Wu was raised among classical Chinese learning, calligraphy, and Tang poetry. He later built a distinguished academic and cultural career in the United States, including a long association with the Portland Classical Chinese Garden as a cultural advisor and board member. The memoir’s title, inspired by Wordsworth’s poem, reflects a life spent between cultures, carrying memory, identity, and meaning.Dr. Wu’s early life was shaped by a scholarly household spanning generations of intellectual tradition across China’s Jiangnan region. His upbringing was influenced by classical education and a strong cultural foundation rooted in literature and philosophy.In adulthood, he continued this trajectory abroad, developing a career that bridged Chinese and Western intellectual traditions. His work in the United States included academic engagement and cultural stewardship, most notably through his role at the Portland Classical Chinese Garden.Wandering Lonely as a Cloud is at once a family saga, a cultural history, and a meditation on inheritance and identity. Dr. Wu’s narrative is populated with vivid portraits—including a scholar-grandfather whose library concealed Sherlock Holmes behind a sliding door, a mother from Suzhou who embodied frugality and Buddhist virtue, and a father who completed university studies in accelerated time while embracing Western liberal arts education.Against the backdrop of twentieth-century China—war, revolution, migration, and transformation—Dr. Wu traces not only a single life, but the evolution of a broader cultural experience across generations.Scholarly yet accessible and grounded in both Chinese literary tradition and Western intellectual thought, the memoir explore...

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