Understanding the Healing Power of God by Doug Jones

Understanding the Healing Power of God by Doug Jones

This book investigates issues of translation and survival in diasporic and transcultural literature, combining Chinese and Western theories of translation to discuss the centrifugal and centripetal forces that are inherent in diasporic Chinese writers. Cutting across philosophy, semiotics, translation studies and diasporic writing, it the book tackles the complexity of translation as a key tool to re-read the dynamics of Sino-Anglo literary encounters that reset East-West parameters. Focusing on a range of specialized areas of cultural translation sand China-related writings, this book is a key read for scholars of translation and cross-cultural writings, ethnic studies, postcolonial studies, American and Australian literature studies, and global Chinese literature studies.

Since 1968, Doug Jones has been making travel documentaries. He was born and reared in Kansas City and earned a degree in Radio and Television Broadcasting from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He now splits his time between Los Angeles and New York City. His personal adventures have brought him around the world and across six continents, visiting sixty-eight nations. He has appeared on every major auditorium travelogue-lecture series in the United States and Canada, including the National Geographic Society series at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. He has made twenty-two feature-length travel documentaries and has appeared on every major auditorium travelogue-lecture series in the United States and Canada.

The Great Canadian Rail Trip, which has sold over one million copies worldwide, is one of Doug Jones' films that has been released on home video and DVD. He runs a successful stock footage company, and his work can be seen on prime time television and in national ads. He has done over sixty coast-to-coast flights in his twin Cessna airplane to display his travelogues in every state of the country, in addition to his employment as a travel film producer. He has been on the boards of the International Travel Film Guild and the International Motion Picture and Lecturers Association.

He is included in Who's Who in Entertainment, and the International Platform Association awarded him the Film Lecturer of the Year award for his remarkable contribution in the field of travelogue production.