Chinese Biograpy
Maos 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... More »
Mao The Unknown Story
$32.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Jung Chang's WILD SWANS was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have... More »
Good Women Of China
$23.95 (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... More »
Falling Leaves
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Her grand aunt formed the Shanghai Women's Bank. Her father was known as the miracle boy with the power of turning iron into gold. Yet in this affluent Chinese family the fifth child and youngest daughter, Adeline, suffe... More »
Beijing Confidential
$32.99 (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... More »
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Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates And The Story Of The New China
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
As one of the first American students admitted to China after the communist revolution, John Pomfret was exposed to a country still emerging from the twin tragedies of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. ... 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... 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 ... 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... More »