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Title: Wandering Lonely as a Cloud at MIBF 2026: Tracing a Life Across Oceans, Eras, and Cultures

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 3rd Oct 2026 - The memoir traces Wu’s life from wartime Shanghai to a college campus in Oregon, shaped by displacement, education, spiritual development, and life between cultures.The 2026 MIBF brought together publishers, educators, authors, and readers under the theme “Get Lit: Reading in a New Light.” Organized by Primetrade Asia Inc., the five-day fair featured over 100 exhibitors across two floors of the SMX Convention Center. Its program included author signings, educational activities, a comics demonstration by Manix Abrera, the School World segment for educators, and the Gintong Aklat Awards presented by the Book Development Association of the Philippines.Wu’s memoir also connects with the fair’s theme through its treatment of reading, education, cultural change, and personal reflection. Born in Shanghai in 1935 into what he describes as a “family of book fragrance,” he grew up under the influence of his scholar grandfather and within a family library. His name was chosen hoping that he would one day teach a thousand students, following an example he associates with Confucius.That early influence led him to the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute, where he taught English and served as chief editor of the early Chinese-English dictionary. His memoir recounts decades of political campaigns that turned colleagues into targets and led him to inform against others despite his own misgivings.In the United States, he earned his doctorate at Columbia University and held a professorship at Reed College, where he founded the Chinese and Humanities program. His contributions extended to the development of Portland’s Lan Su Chinese Garden. Together, these experiences inform the memoir’s examination of cultural identity, education, and pe...

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