Ann Martin

Doors Cracked Open

History & Biography

“Animating this book is the authors’ large-heartedness: large enough to encompass grace for their younger selves chafing against restrictions, and grace for their Chinese students, colleagues, and ‘handlers’ struggling to assess how quickly and far barriers to formerly forbidden connections with foreigners had been moved. Americanness and Chineseness undeniably shaped these encounters, but the real and timeless story is how forces like family, faith, and individual temperament determine the risks we take to understand and befriend each other.”