Starting With Max

How a Wise Dog Gave me Strength and Inspiration

Ying Ying

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English

Allen & Unwin
20 August 2013

Memoirs; Dogs as pets; Biography - Australian

My dog has demonstrated a grand theory about life's simplest activities. He acts out the meaning of life by actively living it. Do not think so much about yourself, he tells me. Know where you're going, and just get up and go. Be playful and joyous.

Starting a new life in a new city, in a new country, Ying Ying and her family adopt a stray dog, the much loved Max. As changes in Ying Ying's life bring frustration and sadness as well as surprise and joy, quite unexpectedly she realises that what remains most constant in her life is her dog.

Starting with Max captures the journey of a migrant in mid-life crisis struggling to come to terms with her new identity in a foreign land.

Ying Ying finds herself driven by her dog to pursue a life of action and meaning, persistence and determination. She must not just survive, but thrive and it is her faithful four-legged friend who has become her source of wisdom and strength at this most fragile period of her life.

This is not just another book about life with a dog, but a quest for deeper understanding of humans and their dogs. In her contemplation of her four-legged friend and all that he is, Ying Ying reflects on matters of significance such as love, faith, beauty, ageing, mortality and creation.

By: Ying Ying
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 224g
ISBN: 9781743317945
ISBN 10: 1743317948
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 20 August 2013
Recommended Age: From
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ying Ying is a Chinese woman, born in Hong Kong in the late 1950s. She graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1980, majoring in English Literature and Chinese Literature. She then joined the ICAC in Hong Kong and worked there as a Community Officer for 8 years before studying a Master Degree in Criminology. Afterwards, she became a part-time lecturer, teaching Criminology and Sociology in both the Centre for Continuing Education of the University of Hong Kong and the Open University of Hong Kong.