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Two China
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Based on popular estimates, the two best-selling books ever published on the earth are the Christian Bible and that bible-like book for the Chinese communists, Quotations from Chairman Mao, which is popularly known as Mao's Little Red Book. That means the two dominant and contrasting ideologies in the world today are taking their battle for superiority even in top-selling charts of publishing sector. It is estimated that about 6.5 billion copies of Quotations of Chairman Mao have been published, majority of them in China. Based on this statistics Bible is a close second, with an estimate of about 6 billion printed copies all over the world. There are some other estimates that put the number of copies of Holy Bible ahead of that of Quotations from Chairman Mao.
Bible is a book that needs no introduction. It is the religious book of Christianity. It is read out in on a regular basis in churches and religious functions in Christian community. It is taught in schools in Christian countries and those managed by churches. It is undoubtedly the most famous book in the world. It is said to have been published in almost all languages with an active publishing culture. As the holy book of one of the most widely spread religions in the world, Bible definitely has access to a widely scattered population. The book itself is a sublime mixture of fluid writing and supreme philosophy. It has another record, though a little bit dubious. It is said to be the most stolen book in the world, according to an informal survey among the proprietors of leading bookstalls in the world.
Quotations from Chairman Mao contains words of wisdom mainly related to socialism and revolution from the yesteryear's doyen of Chinese communism Mao Zedong. Mao was at the forefront of the Cultural Revolution initiated in China by Chinese Communist Party. His vignettes of wisdom are frequently quoted in the writings in most languages. Since the working of communist party sometimes resembles that of the church, there should be no wonder that the book that reflects superlative thinking of Mao has become a must-have in every home in China. There are certainly some who doubt the credentials of estimates that put a book written by a former ruler of an Asian country in the best-selling list along with Bible. Considering the fact that China is the most populated country in the world by a distance, it is perfectly comprehensible that Mao's Little Red Book always remains big in the best-selling lists.
It should be mentioned that there are some other estimates that put another Chinese book, Zinhua Dictionary, as the best-selling book, after Holy Bible. Don-Quixote, written by the Spanish master Cervantes is considered as the best-selling fiction book in the world.
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China $70 China’s dramatic transformation over the past fifteen years has drawn its share of attention and fear from the global community and world leaders. Far from the inward-looking days of the Cultural Revolution, modern China today is the world’s fourth largest economy, with a net product larger than that of France and the United Kingdom. And China’s dynamism is by no means limited to its economy: enrollments in secondary and higher education are rapidly expanding, and new means of communication are vastly increasing information available to the Chinese public. In two decades, the Chinese government has also transformed its foreign relations—Beijing is now consulted on virtually every key development within the region. However, the Communist Party of China still dominates all aspects of political life. The Politburo is still self-selecting, Beijing chooses province governors, censorship is widespread, and treatment of dissidents remains harsh. In China , leading experts provide an overview of the region, highlighting key issues as they developed in the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Edited with an introduction by David B. H. Denoon, an authority on China, this volume of articles covers recent events and key issues in understanding this growing superpower. Organized into three thematic sections—foreign policy and national security, economic policy and social issues, and domestic politics and governance—the essays cover salient topics such as China's military power, de-communization, growing economic strength, nationalism, and the possibility for democracy. The volume also contains current maps as well as a “Recent Chronology of Events” which provides a decade's worth of information on the region, organized by year and by country. Contributors: Liu Binyan, David B.H. Denoon, Bruce J. Dickson, June Teufel Dreyer, Michael Dutton, Elizabeth Economy, Barry Eichengreen, Edward Friedman, Dru C. Gladney, Paul H. B. Godwin, Merle Goldman, Richard Madsen, Barry Naughton, Lucian W. Pye, Tony Saich, David Shambaugh, Robert Sutter, Michael D. Swaine, and Tyrene White. |
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Two Yaks in the Mountains, Tibet, China $29.99 Gavin Hellier Two Yaks in the Mountains, Tibet, China - Photographic Print |
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Europe, China and the Two SARS $165 This book is a detailed study of contemporary economic, political and security relations between Western Europe (now represented by the European Union) and China and the two emerging special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau. In a comparative manner, the contributors analyse the policies of seven major European states and the European Commission, counter-balanced with the view from China, Hong Kong and Macau. This uniquely wide-ranging survey discusses the past record, the present performance and the future prospects of the Sino-European relationship. |
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Two Innocents in Red China $19.95 In the spirit of his father, Alexandre Trudeau revisits China to put a ground-breaking journey into a fresh, contemporary context. In 1960, Pierre Trudeau and Jacques Hébert , a labour lawyer and a journalist from Montréal, travelled to China in the midst of the Great Leap Forward. In 1968, when Two Innocents in Red China, Trudeau and Hébert’s sardonic look at a third world country’s first steps into the rest world, was released in English, Trudeau had become prime minister of Canada. “It seemed to us imperative that the citizens of our democracy should know more about China,” Trudeau wrote in the foreword. Four decades later, China’s emergence as an economic and military heavyweight beckoned Trudeau’s journalist son Alexandre to retrace his father’s footsteps and add additional material to the book. The result is a thought-provoking new perspective on the Canadian classic that helped open China to the world. |
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Emperor of China and Two Noblewomen, Reprint of China Monumentis by Athanasius Kircher $49.99 Emperor of China and Two Noblewomen, Reprint of China Monumentis by Athanasius Kircher - Giclee Print |
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Two Camels and a Horse, Kashgar, Western China $24.99 Two Camels and a Horse, Kashgar, Western China - Photographic Print |
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China Wakes $12.99 The definitive book on China's uneasy transformation into an economic and political superpower by two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporters. An insightful and thought-provoking analysis of daily life in China, China Wakes is an exemplary work of reportage. 16 pages of photos. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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China and India $44.95 Written in a comprehensive and authoritative manner, this book compares and contrasts the two economies of the People's Republic of China and India, covering large areas including trade and financial sectors. |
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China, Heilongjiang Province, Two Siberian Tigers on Grass $24.99 Keren Su China, Heilongjiang Province, Two Siberian Tigers on Grass - Photographic Print |
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China, Heilongjiang Province, Two Siberian Tigers on Snow $24.99 Keren Su China, Heilongjiang Province, Two Siberian Tigers on Snow - Photographic Print |
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China, Two Gold Fish Facing Each Other $24.99 Keren Su China, Two Gold Fish Facing Each Other - Photographic Print |
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Two Men at Local Food Market, Qinghai, China $34.99 David Evans Two Men at Local Food Market, Qinghai, China - Photographic Print |
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China In $17.99 China In |
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China Modernizes $19.95 Two sharply contrasting views of China exist today; one of a rising superpower, and the other of an anachronistic, authoritarian regime. So which is the real China? Randall Peerenboom offers a controversial, first-hand account of modern China focusing on its economic, political and legal attributes within the context of the developing world. - ;Two sharply contrasting views of China exist today. On the one hand a rising superpower predicted to have the largest economy in the world by mid century, on the other hand a brutal, anachronistic and authoritarian regime, a threat to geo-stability and to the economies of the industrial world. So which China is the real China? Randall Peerenboom addresses this question by exploring China's economy, political and legal system, and most controversially, its record on civil, political. and personal rights in the context of the developing world. Avoiding polemic and relying on empirical evidence, he compares China's performance not with first world countries such as the US and UK but with other middle income countries and highlights the often hypocritical stance of an international. community which demands standards from others that it does not match at home. He also critically evaluates the benefits of globalisation and democratisation and the normative values of the West set against Beijing's determination to retain its cultural and political integrity. This book seeks to bridge the gap in understanding about China and to create a firmer foundation for mutual trust, while recognising that there are inevitable risks in a shift in global power of this magnitude that will require hard headed pragmatism at times where interests collide. - ;important and timely - Japanese Journal of Political Science;Peerenboom's book deserves a wide readership because it is perhaps one of the clearest statements in favour of the Chinese model to yet emerge. Its main contribution is to help the China field place the great debate about the Chinese model in the context of the global politics. In an era in which China has replaced the Soviet Union and Chile in the global search for alternative modernities to liberal democracy, the book will be useful not only in the undergraduate classroom but also. in the foreign policy world. - Bruce Gilley, The China Quarterly, 191, September 2007;Peerenboom's appraisal deserves to be heard: it will help the general public who are interested in China and encourage policymakers to reassess their views. - THES;Perceptive. - David Smith, Sunday Times (Culture);Randy Peerenboom has jumped with vigor and data into the ever deepening debate over how to view China. Going beyond the previous focus on the economic aspects of the East Asian Model, he shows that the EAM has served China well and suggests that other countries may also learn from China's experiences. Sure to set off debate, China Modernizes is a must read. - Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations a |
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2000 Days in China: China 19982009 $27.56 2000 Days in China (19982009) is an enthralling memoir revealing the authors experiences living in the exotic captivating culture of central China. The authors mandate was to build a profitable business in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province but while living there he became addicted to China. First part: Building the business. Not a boring how to build a business but a revelation of personal involvement with captivating coworkers. John and his wife experienced an incredible learning curve through cultural exchanges with work relationships and personal friendships during Johns tenure in China. Part two: Establishing Personal Relationships: tells of developing relationships with four children and their families. The four Children came to Canada and learned firsthand some of the significant cultural diversity between China and Western countries. A highlight of the book is letters from the kids telling of their lasting impressions of their trip to Canada. Part Three: Exploring China, History, Future and Impressions: details and documents the significant changes experienced in a rapidly developing China. First hand insight is given into some of the massive problems that continue to plague China in that countries incredible race to a permanent status as a dominant industrial power. Author: Hemmingsen, John/ Hemmingsen, Cherie Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 250 Publication Date: 2010/03/29 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.56 inches |
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TV China $21.2 If radio and film were the emblematic media of the Maoist era, television has rapidly established itself as the medium of the "marketized" China and in the diaspora. In less than two decades, television has become the dominant medium across the Chinese cultural world. TV China is the first anthology in English on this phenomenon. Covering the People's Republic, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora, these 12 original essays introduce and analyze the Chinese television industry, its programming, the policies shaping it, and its audiences. |
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China's Dilemma $67.5 This book is a study of the Taiwan issue after the Cold War. It focuses on the changes in Mainland China's Taiwan policy in the period between Lee Teng-hui's 1995 U.S. tour and his "two states" theory in 1999. It discusses why the tension across the Taiwan Strait flared up in 1995 and 1999, and how Mainland China handled, and is going to handle, its relations with Taiwan and the United States in the 21st century.... |
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Banking in China $105 Chinese banks have been making headlines recently, but what lies beneath? Banking in China appears different. What explains the current arrangement? What can we expect from such a banking industry in the future? This book answers these two questions in a fully revised second edition and contributes to a new understanding of Chinese banks. |
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The Rise of China $21.95 "Although the United States is rightly preoccupied with the threat of Islamist terrorism and the two conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is a wide consensus among American strategic thinkers that America’s greatest challenge over the next decades will be the rise of China. With its expanding economy and formidable military growth, China is positioning itself to challenge the United States as the greatest international power on the world stage. The Rise of China is a collection of essays about the nature of that threat and what the U.S. and its allies might do in the areas of foreign and defense affairs to meet it. Contributing authors Michael R. Auslin, Dan Blumenthal, Ellen Bork, Nicholas Eberstadt, Robert Kagan, Gary J. Schmitt, and Ashley J. Tellis contemplate how these two rising, ambitious powers are contesting for leadership in East Asia and ask if the sanguine forecasts for a peaceful century will hold true. Although the Chinese have been very careful to look like a cautious power, and in key respects have been, they see the international scene as fundamentally one of antagonism. And this is unlikely to change until and unless the regime changes. It is this China, the authors of The Rise of China assert, that we will be dealing with for some time to come. " |
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China and the Multinationals $40 This original and important book explores how the interaction between China and multinational enterprises (MNEs) has the potential to affect the future of the Chinese economy, the global economy, and international business. It examines the interaction of two of the most important forces affecting the development of the global economy in recent decades - namely the opening and massive growth of the Chinese economy, and secondly the rise in foreign direct investment per se and the consequent strategic restructuring of major MNEs. The expert contributors begin by investigating precisely how leading MNEs, with well-honed international practices and commitments, have drawn their operations in China into their established operations. They suggest that MNEs' operations are increasingly embedded in the growth and sustainability of the Chinese economy itself, rather than merely serving as a supply base for their global markets. The second part of the book examines the emergence of new MNEs from China itself.It shows how these MNEs are seen as integral to China's development, and how their ability to expand both reflects strengths from China's growth as well as revealing the growing needs required for sustainability. This timely study will be of great interest not just to those following one of the world's key economies, but also to researchers and students of the fast-paced changes in international business strategy. |
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The China Reader $13.99 Current Affairs/Asian Studies Perhaps no nation in recent history has undergone as total a transformation as China has in the past twenty-five years. For Chinese leaders, the death of Mao Zedong, the rise of Deng Xiaoping, and unprecedented economic growth have spawned new complexities. For the country's 1.3 billion citizens, changes have been equally dramatic, from skyrocketing sales in automobiles and satellite dishes to an explosion in violent crime and drug trafficking. The China Reader: The Reform Era is a fascinating compilation by two astute China watchers of the most important documents, articles, and statements on China from 1972 to the present. Here are the voices of the experts, from Chinese analyses of the fall of Soviet Communism to Western exposés of an ecological crisis that threatens global weather patterns into the next millennium. Here, too, are the artifacts of an era, from regulations to control Chinese cyberspace to a Party member's Orwellian justification of the military crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Authoritative and comprehensive, The China Reader is a timely guide to understanding a nation in the throes of change--a historic moment with profound implications for policy makers and markets from the Pacific Rim to Wall Street. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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China (Hardcover) $44.55 Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. With the world`s longest tradition of history-writing, its extraordinary past ought to be common knowledge. China, by the eminent historian John Keay, should make it so.Informed by the latest research and enlivened by wit and anecdote, Keay`s narrative spans 5,000 years, from the Three Dynasties (2000-220 BC) to Deng Xiaoping`s opening of China and the past three decades of economic growth. Broadly chronological, the book presents a history of all the Chinas-including regions (Yunnan, Tibet, Xinjiang, Mongolia, Manchuria) that account for two-thirds of the People`s Republic of China land mass but which barely feature in its conventional history.Crisp, judicious, and engaging, China is destined to become the classic single-volume history for anyone seeking to understand the past, present, and future of this immensely powerful nation. |
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Chemicals in China $195 How to Strategically Evaluate China. Perhaps the most efficient way of evaluating China is to consider key dimensions which themselves are composites of multiple factors. Composite portfolio approaches have long been used by strategic planners. The biggest challenge in this approach is to choose the appropriate factors that are the most relevant to international planning. The two measures of greatest relevance to chemicals are “latent demand” and “market accessibility”. The figure below summarizes the key dimensions and recommendations of such an approach. Using these two composites, one can prioritize all countries of the world. Countries of high latent demand and high relative accessibility (e.g. easier entry for one firm compared to other firms) are given highest priority. The figure below shows two different scenarios. Accessibility is defined as a firm’s ease of entering or supplying from or to a market (the “supply side”), and latent demand is an indicator of the potential in serving from or to the market (the “demand side”). Framework for Prioritizing Countries. Demand/Market Potential Driven Firm. Relative Accessibility. Accessibility/Supply Averse Firm. In the top figure, the firm is driven by market potential, whereas the bottom figure represents a firm that is driven by costs or by an aversion to difficult markets. This report treats the reader as coming from a “generic firm” approaching the global market – neither a market-driven nor a cost-driven company. Planners must therefore augment this report with their own company-specific factors that might change the priorities (e.g. a Canadian firm may have higher accessibility in Canada than a German firm). Latent Demand and Accessibility in China. This report provides a detailed overview of factors driving latent demand and accessibility for chemicals in China. Latent demand is largely driven by economic fundamentals specific to chemicals. This topic is discussed in Chapter 2 using work carried out in China on behalf of American firms and authored by the United States government (typically commercial attachés or similar persons in local offices of the U.S. Department of State). I have included a number of edits to clarify the information provided. Latent demand only represents half of the picture. Chapter 2 also deals with micro-accessibility for chemicals in China. I use the term “micro” since the discussion is focused specifically on chemicals. Chapter 3 is also a stand-alone report that I have authored. It covers proxy pro-forma financial indicators of firms operating in China. I use the word “proxy” because the provided figures only cover a “what if” scenario, based on actual operating results for firms in China. The numbers are only indicative of an average firm whose primary activity is in China. It covers a vertical analysis of the maximum likelihood balance sheet, income statement, |
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The China Card $7.5 In this far-seeing novel, the nations of the near future come to 1984and a world in crisis: For the United States, Wolf Manheim, survivor of Buchenwald, the president's chief national security advisor, disciple of Adlai Stevenson . . . For the Soviet Union, Georgi Arbatov, Kremlin man of letters, a lesser hawk playing a two-faced game . . . For the People's Republic of China, Hu Ziping, a diminutive man of giant powers, waiting, waiting ever so patiently to play his own final China Card. And surpassing them alla woman of celebrity, using weapons more powerful than the world's arsenals. Set against the backdrops of Washington, Peking, Moscow and a top secret retreat for the nation's movers and shakers, The China Card is a riveting, prophetic novel of obsessive love and shocking international intrigue. The Spymaster by Donald Freed is also available from Boson Books . For an author bio and photo, reviews and a reading sample, visit bosonbooks.com. |
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Birds of China $100.37 This is a list of the bird species recorded in China. The avifauna of China includes a total of 1314 species, of which 52 are endemic, two have been introduced by humans, and 56 species listed are accidental. Eighty seven species are globally threatened. This lists taxonomic treatment and nomenclature follow the conventions of Clementss 5th edition. The family accounts at the beginning of each heading reflects this taxonomy, as do the species counts found in each family account. Introduced and accidental species are included in the total counts for China. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 156 Publication Date: 2010/07/25 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.36 inches |
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China Urbanizes $14.99 The key challenges facing China in the next two decades derive from the ongoing process of urbanization. China's urbanization rate in 2005 was about 43%. Over the next 10-15 years, it is expected to rise to well over 50%, adding an additional 200 million mainly rural migrants to the current urban population of 560 million. How China copes with such a large migration flow will strongly influence rural-urban inequality, the pace at which urban centers expand their economic performance, and the urban environment. The growing population will necessitate a big push strategy to maintain a high rate of investment in housing and the urban physical infrastructure and urban services. To finance such expansion will require a significant strengthening and diversification of China's financial system. Growing cities will greatly increase consumption of energy and water. Containing this without at the same time constraining the economic performance of cities or the improvement in the standards of living will call for enlightened policies, strategies, careful urban planning, and significant technological advances. This volume identifies the key developments to watch and discusses the policies which would affect the course as well as the fruitfulness of change. |
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Tagore and China $49.95 Tagore and China is the first full account in English of Rabindranath Tagore’s visit to China and its civilizational import. Perhaps for the first time, exhaustive material related to the visit has been collected. The book charts Tagore’s ‘grand visit’ in 1924 undertaken in response to China’s ‘Tagore fever’ and the series of talks he gave there, their antecedents as well as impact. Also discussed is the foundation of Cheena-Bhavana at Visva-Bharati—and thereby of Chinese studies in India—and Tan Yun-shan’s lifelong dedication to it and the Sino-Indian love it held. This well-researched book unearths new material from Chinese sources to confirm the devotion of Tagore’s interpreter, poet Xu Zhimo, to him and Tagore’s affection for Xu Zhimo. Tagore’s two personal visits to Xu Zhimo, preceded by the latter’s visit to Santiniketan, have also been detailed. Supplemented by several rare photographs, Tagore and China is a fitting tribute to Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary and is going to be of abiding value to Sino-Indian understanding. |
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The Mirage of China $90 Today's world is one marked by the signs of digital capitalism and global capitalist expansion, and China is increasingly being integrated into this global system of production and consumption. As a result, China's immediate material impact is now felt almost everywhere in the world; however, the significance and process of this expansion is far from understood. As such, this study provides a response to the call for developing the project of an anthropology of modernity. It shows how the a priori categories of statistical reasoning came to be re-born and re-lived in the People's Republic - as essential conditions for the possibility of a new mode of knowledge and governance. From the ruins of the Maoist revolution China has risen through a mode of quantitative self-objectification. In the form of a history of the present, the author identifies an epistemological rift as having separated the Maoist years from the present age of the People's Republic, which appears on the global stage as a mirage. This is an ethnographic investigation of concepts - of the conceptual forces that have produced and been produced by - two forms of knowledge, life, and governance. As the author shows, the world of China, contrary to the common view, is not the Chinese world; it is a symptomatic moment of our world at the present time. It is less about a specific transformation but more about the general condition of possibility for being in the world - both within and without the People's Republic. |
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China: The Balance Sheet $13.95 From the most distinguished China experts in America, and two of Washington's foremost think tanks, comes a definitive and indispensable portrait of China today. |
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Pearl of China $4.99 It is the end of the nineteenth century and China is riding on the crest of great change, but for nine-year-old Willow, the only child of a destitute family in the small southern town of Chin-kiang, nothing ever seems to change. Until the day she meets Pearl, the eldest daughter of a zealous American missionary. Pearl is head-strong, independent and fiercely intelligent, and will grow up to be Pearl S Buck, the Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning writer and humanitarian activist, but for now all Willow knows is that she has never met anyone like her in all her life. From the start the two are thick as thieves, but when the Boxer Rebellion rocks the nation, Pearl's family is forced to leave China to flee religious persecution. As the twentieth century unfolds in all its turmoil, through right-wing military coups and Mao's Red Revolution, through bad marriages and broken dreams, the two girls cling to their lifelong friendship across the sea. In this ambitious and moving new novel, Anchee Min, acclaimed author of Empress Orchid and Red Azalea, brings to life a courageous and passionate woman who loved the country of her childhood and who has been hailed in China as a modern heroine. |
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China Adventure $1499 Explore a side of China you never knew existed on this eye-opening bike-based adventure. Using rural roads that wind through tiny villages and past seemingly endless rice fields, youll get a full dose of this lands truly incredible history, culture and geography. On two wheels, youll tour the imperial tombs and palaces of the walled city of Xian, study curious limestome karst formations, navigate the busy streets of Beijing and relax, secure in the knowledge that your downtime is rightly earned. |