The Good Man of Nanking By John Rabe

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Title	:	The Good Man of Nanking
Author	:	John Rabe
ISBN	:	0375701974
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	320

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The Good Man of Nanking is a crucial document for understanding one of World War II s most horrific incidents of genocide, one which the Japanese have steadfastly refused to acknowledge.It is also the moving and awe inspiring record of one man s conscience, courage, and generosity in the face of appalling human brutality.Until the recent emergence of John Rabe s diaries, f The Good Man of Nanking is a crucial document for understanding one of World War II s most horrific incidents of genocide, one which t...

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Women Writers of Traditional China By Kang-i Sun Chang

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Title	:	Women Writers of Traditional China
Author	:	Kang-i Sun Chang
ISBN	:	0804732310
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	928

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This anthology of Chinese women s poetry in translation brings together representative selections from the work of some 130 poets from the Han dynasty to the early twentieth century To measure the development of Chinese women s poetry, one must take into account not only the poems but also the prose writings prefaces, biographies, theoretical tracts that framed them and a This anthology of Chinese women s poetry in translation brings together representative selections from the work of some 130 poets from ...

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The Four Books By Yan Lianke

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Title	:	The Four Books
Author	:	Yan Lianke
ISBN	:	0802123120
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	400

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From master storyteller Yan Lianke, winner of the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize and a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, The Four Books is a powerful, daring novel of the dog eat dog psychology inside a labor camp for intellectuals during Mao s Great Leap Forward A renowned author in China, and among its most censored, Yan s mythical, sometimes surreal tale From master storyteller Yan Lianke, winner of the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize and a finalist for the Man Booker Inter...

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River Town By Peter Hessler

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Title	:	River Town
Author	:	Peter Hessler
ISBN	:	0060855029
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	402

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In the heart of China s Sichuan province lies the small city of Fuling Surrounded by the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, Fuling has long been a place of continuity, far from the bustling political centers of Beijing and Shanghai But now Fuling is heading down a new path, and gradually, along with scores of other towns in this vast and ever evolving country, i

In the heart of China s Sichuan province lies the small city of Fuling Surrounded by the terraced hills of the Yangt...

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Daughter of Heaven By Leslie Li

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Title	:	Daughter of Heaven
Author	:	Leslie Li
ISBN	:	155970800X
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	304

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In this powerful, touching memoir of a critically acclaimed Chinese American writer, taste becomes the keeper of memory and food the keeper of culture when Nai nai, her extraordinary grandmother, arrives from mainland China.Leslie Li s paternal grandfather, Li Zogren, was China s first democratically elected vice president, to whom Chiang Kai shek left control of the count In this powerful, touching memoir of a critically acclaimed Chinese American writer, taste becomes the keeper of memory and ...

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Red Sorghum By Mo Yan

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Title	:	Red Sorghum
Author	:	Mo Yan
ISBN	:	0140168540
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	359

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The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in LiteratureSpanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty, as the Chinese battle both Japanese invaders and each other in the turbul The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in LiteratureSp...

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Bound Feet & Western Dress By Pang-Mei Natasha Chang

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Title	:	Bound Feet & Western Dress
Author	:	Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
ISBN	:	0385479646
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	215

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In China, a woman is nothing Thus begins the saga of a woman born at the turn of the century to a well to do, highly respected Chinese family, a woman who continually defied the expectations of her family and the traditions of her culture Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last emperor and the Communist Revolution, Chang Yu i s life is marked by a In China, a woman is nothing Thus begins the saga of a woman born at the turn of the century to a well to do, highly respected Chinese fam...

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The Gate of Heavenly Peace By Jonathan D. Spence

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Title	:	The Gate of Heavenly Peace
Author	:	Jonathan D. Spence
ISBN	:	0140062793
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	560

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A milestone in Western studies of China John K Fairbank In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D Spence shows us the Chinese revolution through the eyes of its most articulate participants the writers, historians, philosophers, and insurrectionists who shaped and were shaped by the turbulent events of the twentieth century A milestone in Western studies of China John K Fairbank In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonatha...

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Life and Death are Wearing Me Out By Mo Yan

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Title	:	Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
Author	:	Mo Yan
ISBN	:	1559708530
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	540

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Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his generosity and kindness to his peasants, is not only stripped of his land and worldly possessions in Mao s Land Reform Movement of 1948, but is cruelly executed, despite his protestations of innocence He goes to Hell, where Lord Yama, king of the underworld, has Ximen Nao tortured endlessly, trying to make him admit his guilt, to no av Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his generosity and kindness to his peasants, is not only stripped of his land and worldly possessions ...

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Red Azalea By Anchee Min

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Title	:	Red Azalea
Author	:	Anchee Min
ISBN	:	1400096987
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	306

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Red Azalea is Anchee Min s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao s China As a child, she was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher at seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective Forbidden to speak, dress, read, write, or love as she pleased, she found a lifeline in a secret love affair with another woman Miraculously selected for the film v Red Azalea is Anchee Min s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao s China As a child, she was a...

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Country Driving By Peter Hessler

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Title	:	Country Driving
Author	:	Peter Hessler
ISBN	:	0061804096
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	448

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From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in China In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver s license For the next seven years, he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his awar...

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War Trash By Ha Jin

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Title	:	War Trash
Author	:	Ha Jin
ISBN	:	1400075793
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	368

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Ha Jin s masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner of modern history, the experience of Chinese soldiers held in U.S POW camps during the Korean War In 1951 Yu Yuan, a scholarly and self effacing clerical officer in Mao s volunteer army, is taken prisoner south of the 38th Parallel Because he speaks English, he soon becomes an intermediary betwee Ha Jin s masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner of modern history, the experience of Chinese soldiers held in U.S ...

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