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The tragedy of liberation
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Frank Dikötter |
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"The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of liberation and the revolution that followed is not one of peace, liberty, and jus… |
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Blood Letters
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Lian Xi |
Blood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao, a poet and journalist arrested by the authorities in 1960 and executed eight years later, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. The only Chin… |
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Becoming China
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Jeanne-Marie Gescher |
"One of the two most powerful states in the world, China continues to be seen as a mystery even after decades of an open door. How does China work, what does it want, why does it want it, and what do… |
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Buy me the sky
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Xinran |
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 … |
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Tiger Head, Snake Tails
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Jonathan Fenby |
Using a viewpoint that sees the country from the inside out, Jonathan Fenby links together myriad features of today's China to arrive at a coherent picture of its nature and depict its future, both i… |
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