The Second Long March

<p>In 1981 newlyweds Patti Isaacs and her Italian husband Federico Gauss Rescigno traveled to China a place she'd grown up fearing to work for a year in the ancient capital of Xi'an. Returning 24 years later Patti reunited with old friends worked with China's younger generation and found a city transformed. Her stories are snapshots of a span of years when a city under communism-slow agrarian and egalitarian-became a fast-paced metropolis of 8 million.</p><p><br></p><p>Illustrated with maps and before and after photos <em>The Second Long March</em> chronicles changes that had occurred in her life the lives of her former students and the country itself in its rise as a global economic power. She presents events for those seeking to understand them through the eyes of ordinary people.</p><p><br></p>