Chinese Biograpy
Mao's Last Dancer
$32.95 – Paperback book / Viking
In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, interested more in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But... Buy or find out more →
Good Women Of China
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
For eight ground breaking years, Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast every evening, Words on the Night Breeze became famous throughou... Buy or find out more →
Beijing Confidential
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Jan Wong first arrived in China at the height of the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s as a fervent young Maoist. Determined to change the world, instead she found her own world turned upside down. The result was a ground... Buy or find out more →
Confessions: An Innocent Life In Communist China
$22.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton
With clear vision this intimate memoir draws us into the intersections of everyday life and Communist power from the first days of "Liberation" in 1949 through the Tiananmen Square protests and after. The son of a profes... Buy or find out more →
Daughter Of Heaven
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Oneworld Pubn
She was taken to the palace as a concubine for the Emperor. Using her beauty, wit, and powers of manipulation, she seduced her way to the throne of the most powerful empire in the world. She executed her enemies without ... Buy or find out more →
Wild Swans Three Daughters Of China
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
A new edition of one of the best-selling and best-loved books of recent years, with a new introduction by the author.
The publication of Wild Swans in 1991 was a worldwide phenomenon. Not only did it become the best-sell... Buy or find out more →