It's a Long Way from China to Hollywood

From communism to democracy from the sixties to the modern day from the smallest villages to the largest cities from film to real life <i>It's a Long Way from China to Hollywood</i> travels halfway around the world and shares the life story of Grace Yang.In this memoir Yang narrates the story of her journey and the events that molded her life-from her birth in China in 1964 living under the Communist rule of Mao Zedong growing up with her parents as an only child immigrating to America and coordinating a successful entertainment career. From her school days to her friends to her marriage and daughter's birth she provides a glimpse of life in China and the many differences between it and life in the United States.A story of life on two continents and in two different cultures <i>It's a Long Way from China to Hollywood</i> communicates the trials and tribulations of one family's struggle to obtain an unimaginable dream. It shows how immigration has become a phenomenal part of our civilization that merges humanity through many generations.