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Buy Me the Sky: The Remarkable Truth of China's One-Child Generations by Xinran
Category: History
"Fast-paced and punchy ...accomplished". (Independent). With journalistic acumen and a novelist's flair, Xinran tells the remarkable stories of men and women born in China after 1979 - the recent generations raised under China's single-child policy. At a time when the country continues to transform at t ...Show more
Buy Me the Sky: The Remarkable Truth of China's One-Child Generations by Xinran
Category: History
With journalistic acumen and a novelist's flair, Xinran tells the remarkable stories of men and women born in China after 1979 - the recent generations raised under China's single-child policy. At a time when the country continues to transform at the speed of light, these generations of precious 'one an ...Show more
China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
Category: History
In 1912, five thousand years of feudal rule ended in China. Warlords, Western businessmen, soldiers, missionaries, and Japanese all ruled China, exploited, and fought one another, and the Chinese. In 1949, Mao Zedong came to power. China Witness is a personal testimony from a normally silent generation, ...Show more
China Witness : Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
Category: Biography Memoir
"China Witness" is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told. Here the grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words - for the first and perhaps the last time - the vast changes that have overtaken China's people over a century. The book is at o ...Show more
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love by Xinran; Nicky Harman (Translator)
Category: Biography Memoir
"Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother is made up of the stories of Chinese mothers whose daughters have been wrenched from them, and also brings us the voices of some adoptive mothers from different parts of the world. These are stories which Xinran could not bring herself to tell previously - because ...Show more
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of loss & love by Xinran
Category: Biography
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother is made up of the stories of Chinese mothers whose daughters have been wrenched from them, and also brings us the voices of some adoptive mothers from different parts of the world. These are stories which Xinran could not bring herself to tell previously, because t ...Show more
Miss Chopsticks by Xinran (tr from Chinese Esther Tyldesley)
Category: Fiction
From the author of the bestselling "The Good Women of China" comes the uplifting story of three sisters who, like so many migrant workers in today's China, leave their peasant community to seek their fortune in the big city. The Li sisters don't have much education, but one thing has been drummed into t ...Show more
Miss Chopsticks by Xinran
Category: Fiction
From the author of the bestselling The Good Women of China comes the uplifting story of three sisters who, like so many migrant workers in today's China, leave their peasant community to seek their fortune in the big city. The Li sisters don't have much education, but one thing has been drummed into th ...Show more
Sky Burial by Xinran Xinran; Julia Lovell (Translator); Esther Tyldesley (Translator); Jessica Hische (Illustrator)
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Drop Caps Ser.
From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers--featuring cover art by Jessica Hische It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated lette ...Show more
Sky Burial by Xinran (tr Julia Lovell & Esther Tyldesley)
Category: Biography
As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and fascinated her. Several decades later Xinran met Shu Wan, a Chinese woman who had spent years searching for her missing husband who ...Show more
Sky Burial by Xinran
Category: Biography
Xinran recreates a Chinese woman's extraordinary search for her missing husband, Kejun, in Tibet. It follows her entry into a landscape that nothing had prepared her for and her separation from her regiment leading to her spending years in an alien and confusing culture.