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China’s economic rise has surprised the world, and most governments and large corporations feel the need for a China-strategy to shape their relations with this emerging super-power. What do they know, however, about the educational ideas and achievements that have contributed to this economic success? Names of political figures such as Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin are household words, yet how many people have heard of Li Bingde, Gu Mingyuan, Lu Jie or Ye Lan? Substantial research has been done on Chinese educational development by Sinologists and Comparative Educationists, making a wealth of data and analysis available to the specialist reader. Most of these studies have been framed within Western social science parameters, integrating an objectivist assessment of Chinese education into the international research literature. This book conveys an understanding of China’s educational development from within, through portraits of eleven influential educators whose ideas have shaped the educational reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping in 1978. They are portrayed in the context of their cultural heritage, families, communities and schools, offering their own deeply reflective interpretations of Chinese education. The book is written for the general reader and provides glimpses into the educational context of China’s recent move onto the world stage. Ruth Hayhoe is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, President Emerita of the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Past President of the Comparative and International Education Society, and an Associate Member of the Comparative Education Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong. (ISBN:9628093401) (For this item please quote stock ID 26250) ISBN: 9628093401

Divided into four sections - Fire, Paper, Water and Earth, this title is neither fiction, nor autobiography nor memoir, but a unique form of Chinese 'talk-story' in which real and imagined worlds intrude upon and enrich each other, built upon stories of war. From the anti-war protests in Hawaii to Kingston's own conversations with Vietnam veterans, the author takes us inside the hearts and minds of a host of characters, not least of whom is her own Mama, the veteran woman warrior Brave Orchid, who watches over her in the seminal years of rebuilding following the fire and her father's death. (For this item please quote stock ID 21818) ISBN: 9780436233937

?It hit me like a thunderbolt: Keep your secret so no one will know; survive by keeping your thoughts from men.? New York Mental health administrator Alice Lin provides a text that introduces us to three generations of Chinese women, and on a personal journey as well, reviewing a lifetime that spans China, Taiwan, America, and China again. Asian women will see their own lives mirrored here and we all will feel the pain and be moved by the struggles of these women, weighed down by the traditions of centuries. (For this item please quote stock ID 9770) ISBN: 9780835120340

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December 2, 1997 marked the 100th anniversary of Rewi Alley?s death, and this book includes articles written by his friends in China and elsewhere. The publication of this title is aimed at honouring the memory of this remarkable man. (For this item please quote stock ID 2787) ISBN: 9787800053214

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Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), the first president of the Republic of China, has left a supremely ambivalent political and intellectual legacy?so much so that he is claimed as a Founding Father by both the present rival governments in Taipei and Beijing. In Taiwan, he is the object of a veritable cult; in the People?s Republic of China, he is paid homage as 'pioneer of the revolution', making possible the Party?s claims of continuity with the national past. Western scholars, on the other hand, have tended to question the myth of Sun Yat-sen by stressing the man?s weaknesses, the thinker?s incoherences, and the revolutionary leader?s many failures. (For this item please quote stock ID 4420) ISBN: 9780804731706

Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), the first president of the Republic of China, has left a supremely ambivalent political and intellectual legacy ? so much so that he is claimed as a Founding Father by both the present rival governments in Taipei and Beijing. In Taiwan, he is the object of a veritable cult; in the People?s Republic of China, he is paid homage as 'pioneer of the revolution,' making possible the Party?s claims of continuity with the national past. Western scholars, on the other hand, have tended to question the myth of Sun Yat-sen by stressing the man?s weaknesses, the thinker?s incoherences, and the revolutionary leader?s many failures. This book argues that the life and work of Sun Yat-sen have been distorted both by the creation of the myth and by the attempts at demythification. Its aim is to provide a fresh overall evaluation of the man and the events that turned an adventurer into the founder of the Chinese Republic and the leader of a great nationalist movement. The Sun Yat-sen who emerges from this rigorously researched account is a muddled politician, an opportunist with generous but confused ideas, a theorist without great originality or intellectual rigor. But the author demonstrates that the importance of Sun Yat-sen lies elsewhere. A Cantonese raised in Hawaii and Hong Kong, he was a product of maritime China, the China of the coastal provinces and overseas communities, open to foreign influences and acutely aware of the modern Western world (he was fund-raising in Denver when the eleventh attempt to bring down the Chinese empire finally succeeded). In facing the problems of change, of imitating the West, of rejecting or adapting tradition, he instinctively grasped the aspirations of his time, understood their force, and crystallised them into practical programs. Sun Yat-sen?s gifts enabled him to foresee the danger that technology might represent to democracy, stressed the role of infrastructures (transport, energy) in economic modernisation, and looked forward to a new style of diplomatic and international economic relations based upon cooperation that bypassed or absorbed old hostilities. These 'utopias' of his, at which his contemporaries heartily jeered, now seem to be so many prophecies. 'By setting Sun Yat-sen in his proper historical context, this excellent biography not only resuscitates a major historical figure but constitutes one of the best histories we have of the late Qing and early Republican period.' - Frederic Wakeman, University of California, Berkeley 'This is a most welcome book, one that everyone interested in modern China has wanted for a long while. It is a readable, balanced, and judicious study . . . the most thorough book about Sun in a Western language, and so minutely researched that it goes far beyond any existing study.' ? American Historical Review (For this item please quote stock ID 4421) ISBN: 9780804740111

Novelist Guanlong Cao's autobiographical account of growing up in urban Shanghai affords a rare glimpse into daily life during the forty turbulent years following the Communist Revolution. Forced to the bottom of Chinese society as 'class enemies', Cao's family eked out a meager existence in a cramped attic. The details of their day-to-day existence - the endless quest for enough food, its preparation, Cao's schooling and friends, the stirrings of sexual desire, his dreams and fantasies - are brought brilliantly to life in spare yet evocative prose. The memoir illuminates a world largely unknown to Westerners, one where human pettiness, cruelty, joy, and tenderness play themselves out against a backdrop of political upheaval and material scarcity. Reminiscent of the concise style of classical Chinese memoirs, Cao's lean, elegant prose heightens the emotional intensity of his story. Perceptive and humorous, his voice is deeply original. It is a voice that demands to be heard - for the historical moment it captures as well as for the personal revelations it distills. (For this item please quote stock ID 4819) ISBN: 9780520204058

Ch'en's recollections encompasses the struggle between the Kuomintang (the Chinese National party) and the Chinese Communist party, including portrayals of some of the personalities who shaped modern China. (For this item please quote stock ID 5096) ISBN: 9780817992729

Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last emperor and the Communist Revolution, Yu-i led a life marked by a series of rebellions that changed the course of her life. Chang tells her great aunt's story, the saga of a woman born in Shanghai at the turn of the century. (For this item please quote stock ID 5133) ISBN: 9780553506501

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This is the true story, culled from letters, photographs, and memories, of the author's grandmother, brought to America from China as a young concubine by a traveller. It is also the story of the same man's abandoned wife and children, and of author Chong's discovery of those children 60 years later. One man's exploits resulted in a family living on two continents: a traditional wife in a village in South China and a concubine working in the Chinatowns of the West Coast. A tangled web of a story expertly told by Chong, an economist and writer. 'The Concubine's Children gives readers far more than just another shading of the truth. Beautiful, haunting and wise, it lingers in the mind like a portrait one returns to often in a family album, and elicits the same mysterious response of love, melancholy and pride' - New York Times Book Review. (For this item please quote stock ID 5730) ISBN: 9780140254273

This historical novel is based on the true story of the affair between the Chinese orphan Martha Herop and her English lover, son of the founder of Lloyd's, in the 18th century. (For this item please quote stock ID 5983) ISBN: 9780195842005

Pearl S. Buck was one of the most renowned, interesting, and controversial figures ever to influence American and Chinese cultural and literary history - and yet she remains one of the least studied, honoured, or remembered. In this richly illustrated and meticulously crafted narrative, Conn recounts Buck's life in absorbing detail, tracing the parallel course of American and Chinese history. This 'cultural biography' thus offers a dual portrait: of Buck, a figure greater than history cares to remember, and of the era she helped to shape. (For this item please quote stock ID 6047) ISBN: 9780521639897

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Cao Zhi (192-232) was the son of the great statesman and military strategist, Cao Cao (155-220) and lived in the turbulent years of the late Han Dynasty and the early Three Kingdoms period. He was a younger son but had such great talent that there was at one time a prospect that he might become his father's heir. But Cao Zhi entered into a keen rivalry with his elder brother, Cao Pe (187-226) who was bitterly jealous of Cao Zhi's brilliance and greater poetic gifts. Cao Pe's selection as heir was the cause of great disappointment and frustration to Cao Zhi. However, this political failure did not prevent him from becoming one of the first figures in Chinese history to be remembered primarily for his ability as a poet. A highly readable and informative book by Hugh Dunn that is not only an introduction to some fine classical Chinese poetry, but is also a fascinating study of an intriguing man whose life was largely a tragedy of wasted talent. (For this item please quote stock ID 6591)

A Chinese-Eurasian's autobiographical novel tracing a woman's dual quest for a writing career and romance Ironically, Winnifred Eaton published most of her works under a Japanese-sounding name, Onoto Watanna, but she was of Chinese ancestry. In Me: Book of Rembrance her narrator is called Nora Ascouth, but in the plot, as Nora journeys from her birthplace in Canada to the West Indies and to the United States, Eaton recounts her own early life and writing career. One of sixteen children, Nora leaves her destitute family in Quebec to earn a living. Only seventeen and with ten dollars in her pocket she sets sail for Jamaica and the chance to do newspaper work. Nora ends up in Chicago, moving from job to job, trying all along to sell stories she writes in her spare time. When she discovers that the man with whom she is in love is married, she moves to New York and gains achievement as a novelist. Against this nineteenth-century sensibility of Nora's search for success and love, Eaton conveys the powerlessness of the typical young woman of the working class. Her autobiographical plotline discloses a remarkable secret, Eaton's reticence about her own half-Chinese ancestry. Despite the silence of the text, Me: Book of Rembrance reveals turn-of-the-century views on race, gender, and class. In Jamaica Nora describes the racial inequities and disparities. Moreover, when she says, 'I myself was dark and foreign-looking, but the blond type I adored,' she reveals the extent of her own internalized oppression. Although the author believes her own mixed ancestry precludes prejudice on her part, the text proves otherwise. Like other ethnic immigrants, Nora is indoctrinated into America's Anglo preference. Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954) was born in Montreal but lived most of her life in New York, Hollywood, and Calgary. Linda Trinh Moser is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of California, Davis. (For this item please quote stock ID 6654) ISBN: 9780878059928

A biography of Soon Ching Ling (Madam Sun Yatsen), widow of the renowned revolutionary who was a leader in the 1911 Revolution which overthrew the millennial monarchy. But she was more than a widow. Surviving Sun Yatsen through 56 years of perils and triumphs, she was associated closely with major events and personalities both domestic and foreign. She died in 1981 as Honorary President of the People's Republic of China. The aim of this first extensive biography of Soong Ching Ling in English, written by the author Israel Epstein, 'is to have the reader meet the subject. Wherever possible, the story is told in her own words, drawn from all available written material, including hundreds of personal letters, the testimony of participants and eyewitnesses and my own recollections over four decades'. Soong Ching Ling can be said to be an epitome of a modern Chinese, relevant not only to her time but to this generation and for some time to come. Biographer Israel Epstein was born in Poland but raised in China and there began his journalistic work. His association with Soong Ching Ling - which extended over 40 years - began in 1938-45 in the wartime China Defence League in Hong Kong and Chongqing (Chungking). (For this item please quote stock ID 6779) ISBN: 9787800052835

'Gao?s moving account, which is surprisingly even-handed, viividly captures the pervasive sense of fear and uncertainty that washed over China during the tumultuous period from 1966-1969' - Houston Chronicle. 'The most detailed account of those difficult years I have read ... Incredible as the events may seem, they are believable' - New York Times Book Review. 'Although many memoirs of the Cultural Revolution have been published in recent years, Born Red stands out for the immediacy of its portrait of the Red Guards. Without ever abandoning the voice of someone on the edge of childhood, Gao Yuan creates a nuanced and complex picture of the lives of his peers ...G ao?s narrative is powerful, compelling, and deeply disturbing' - American Historical Review. (For this item please quote stock ID 7278) ISBN: 9780804713696

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Includes 660 items. Eighty percent of the Notices are written in, or translated into, English while the rest are in French. (For this item please quote stock ID 7932) ISBN: 9789622011588

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'Of all the personal histories to have emerged out of China?s twentieth-century nightmare, Wild Swans is the most deeply thoughtful and the most heart-rending I?ve read. It moves, in part, like a ghastly oriental fairytale, but the authority and the reticent passion with which Jung Chang speaks her memories ? and those of others ? is unmistakable.' - Colin Thubron, Spectator 'Wild Swans is a very unusual masterpiece. Everything about it is extraordinary. Not only has it been a popular bestseller, because it is impossible to put down; it has also received the most serious critical attention. The book arouses all the emotions, such as pity and terror, that great tragedy is supposed to evoke, and also a complex mixture of admiration, despair and delight at seeing a luminous intelligence directed at the heart of darkness' - Minette Martin, Sunday Telegraph 'Mesmerising. Like all great stories of survival, no matter what tragedies and horrors are encountered along the way, Wild Swans is ultimately an uplifting book: it is the courage and spirit of this family which will, I believe, be my abiding impression (even if memories of the horrors endured will take a long time to fade)' - Antonia Fraser, The Times (For this item please quote stock ID 8683) ISBN: 9780007176151

This large and beautifully presented limited edition has been published to coincide with the centenary of Mao Zedong's birth. With its truthful and lively images, this album provides details of Mao's life and his noble thoughts and feelings. Its contents include, 'A Revolutionary Family', 'Fatherly Tender Love', 'Sincere Sentiment for Native Place', and 'Profound Memory'. Anyone with an interest in China and its notable figures will find this photographic album a fitting homage to one of the great men of world history. A collector's item. (For this item please quote stock ID 9495) ISBN: 9787507301243

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Hello, Deng Xiaoping is a historical record of Deng Xiaoping?s many years in government and politics and his life at home. Here too can be found the finest works of the famous Chinese photographer, Lu Xiangyou, taken over more than thirty years. The pictures in this album have been carefully selected from the thousands of photographs of Deng Xiaoping taken by Lu Xiangyou since the 1950s. The book is divided into six sections: Images of a Great Man, For Tomorrow, Amongst Comrade-in-Arms, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Friendly Contacts, and After State Affairs. (For this item please quote stock ID 10221) ISBN: 9787119017365

This album is a pictorial record of Zhou Enlai?s life after the founding of the People?s Republic of China. It records many important historical moments and is of great photographic and artistic value. (For this item please quote stock ID 10222) ISBN: 9787102017488

A Chinese daughter reflects on happiness, spiritual beliefs and universal wisdom. 'To become enlightened, the transformation has to come from within yourself.' Adeline Yen Mah became known to millions of readers world-wide through her first book, 'Falling Leaves'. They will welcome this stimulating, personal interpretation of Chinese wisdom and beliefs. 'Chinese thought, if properly translated, can be of interest to Western minds.' Through her conversations with her grandfather and her aunt, through her knowledge of Chinese traditions and history, Adeline Yeh Mah brings to western readers an easy understanding of eastern wisdom and philosophy. She shows us how those in the west can benefit form the teachings of the east. 'The most precious gift we can leave our children is not money, but knowledge' (For this item please quote stock ID 10462) ISBN: 9780002570992

The autobiography of a Chinese working woman as told to Ida Pruitt by Ning Lao T?ai-t?ai. First published in 1945 but reprinted many times. (For this item please quote stock ID 11888) ISBN: 9780804706063

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This intimate, revealing and never before published portrait of Mao Zedong come from the recollections of his personal body-guard, Li Yinqiao. After 15 years of devoted service, Li received a request from Mao: 'If what happens in my family is a secret to others, it is not a secret to you. But don't write about me while I'm still alive; wait until I die, and write truthfully when you do'. For the first time, the personal, inside story of China's dynamic leader and world statesman is told - the life and thought of Mao, the husband, father, comrade-in-arms, the peasant's son. The recollections provide the reader with a refreshingly different perspective from any of the other works about Mao. Highlighting the book are photographs, many published here for the first time. (For this item please quote stock ID 11979) ISBN: 9787119014449

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Deng Xiaoping has been vastly important in the entire history of China in the twentieth century. This volume explores Deng's rise to power, and his leadership of the country since 1977. The distinguished contributors provide a careful and comprehensive assessment of Deng's statesmanship, and of China under his mixture of economic reform and political repression. Readership: Academics and students in China Studies departments. (For this item please quote stock ID 12516) ISBN: 9780198289333

This is the most complete and authoritative account of the childhood and tumultuous life of Jiang Qing, from her early years as an aspiring actress to her marriage and partnership with Mao Zedong, the controversial years of power after Mao?s death, her final years of disgrace and imprisonment, and her suicide in 1991. 'A fascinating portrait...Wildly successful in his global search for new sources...Terrill has produced the most complete biography that in all likelihood will ever be published on the fatally flawed yet fascinating Madame Mao' - Philadelphia Inquirer. (For this item please quote stock ID 13275) ISBN: 9780804729222

Adeline Yen Mah's childhood in China during the civil war was a time of fear, isolation and humiliation. The cause of this was not political upheaval but systematic emotional and physical abuse by her step-mother and siblings, and rejection by her father. Falling Leaves is the story of a 'Fifth Younger Daughter' and her determination to survive the pain of a lonely childhood. (For this item please quote stock ID 14567) ISBN: 9780140265989

Spider Eaters is at once a moving personal story, a fascinating family history, and a unique chronicle of political upheaval told by a Chinese woman who came of age during the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution. With stunning honesty and a lively, sly humor, Rae Yang records her life from her early years as the daughter of Chinese diplomats in Switzerland, to her girlhood at an elite middle school in Beijing, to her adolescent experience as a Red Guard and later as a laborer on a pig farm in the remote northern wilderness. She tells of her eventual disillusionment with the Maoist revolution, how remorse and despair drove her almost to suicide, and how she struggled to make sense of conflicting events that often blurred the line between victim and victimizer, aristocrat and peasant, communist and counterrevolutionary. Moving gracefully between past and present, dream and reality, the author artfully conveys the vast complexity of life in China as well as the richness, confusion, and magic of her own inner life and struggle. Much of the power of the narrative derives from Yang's multi-generational, cross-class perspective. She invokes the myths, legends, folklore, and local customs that surrounded her and brings to life the many people who were instrumental in her life: her nanny, a poor woman who raised her from a baby and whose character is conveyed through the bedtime tales she spins; her father; her beloved grandmother, who died as a result of the political persecution she suffered. Spanning the years from 1950 to 1980, Rae Yang's story is evocative, complex, and told with striking candor. It is one of the most immediate and engaging narratives of life in post-1949 China. (For this item please quote stock ID 14898) ISBN: 9780520204805

An intensely personal chronicle of a young woman's experience during the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution. A controversial and widely-read book in China both for its harrowing portrayal of society in troubled times and for its daring sexual content. One of the first post-Cultural Revolution texts to deal openly with sex, its emotional honesty and spirited tone made it one of the most widely read and controversial works of contemporary Chinese literature. This translation follows the original unexpurgated text which caused such a stir in China. '... a frightening account of ... endless persecution and deprivation...' - The China Quarterly (For this item please quote stock ID 15188) ISBN: 9789622013834

What does it mean to have grown up female in the Mao era? How can the remembered details of everyday life help shed light upon those turbulent times? Some of Us is a collection of memoirs by nine Chinese women who grew up during the Mao era and now live in the United States. Each of the chapters is crafted by a writer who reflects back to that time in a more nuanced manner than has been possible for Western observers. The authors attend to gender in a way that male writers have barely noticed; they also reflect on their lives in the United States. The issues explored here are as varied as these women?s lives: The burgeoning rebellion of a young girl in northeast China. A girl?s struggles to obtain for herself the education her parents inspired her to attain. An exploration of gender and identity as experienced by two sisters. Some of Us offers insight into a place and time when life was much more complex than Westerners have allowed. These eloquent writings shatter our stereotypes of persecution, repression, victims, and victimizers in Maoist China. Xueping ZHONG is an associate professor of literature at Tufts University. She is the author of Masculinity Besieged?: Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Late Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature. Wang Zheng is an associate professor of women?s studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories. Bai Di is an assistant professor of Chinese at Iowa State University. Praise for Some of Us 'This collection makes a fascinating read. Each of the nine memoirs is crafted with skill and honesty.' - Dorothy Ko, professor of history, Barnard College (For this item please quote stock ID 15421) ISBN: 9780813529691

Despite suffering terrible heartache, loss and pain growing up in communist China, Anhua Gao found courage, hope and, eventually, love. This is her story: the story of a woman who, whether she tried to live with or struggle against the harsh ideology of Red China, was treated with shocking inhumanity. Moving, sometimes shocking, but always compelling, this is the tale of someone who, against unbelievable odds, survived and, finally, found a happiness she had not dared to hope for. (For this item please quote stock ID 15674) ISBN: 9780140287240

The Girl from Purple Mountain is a true story of love, betrayal and healing, set against the shifting tides of 20th century China. Mei-en was one of the first women admitted into a Chinese university in an era when most women in China were illiterate and had bound feet. Later she would defy tradition and refuse to marry the man her family had chosen for her, instead choosing his younger brother as her husband. During World War II, she served as Lady Mountbatten?s interpreter in China and as the Japanese Army advanced across the country, her foresight and quick thinking kept her family alive. After the war, she immigrated to the U.S. with her family to what, until her death, seemed a happier and more peaceful life. (For this item please quote stock ID 15850) ISBN: 9780312302702

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With almost no knowledge of English, but a desire to become first-rate actor, Luoyong Wang went to the U. S. in 1986 to study theatre. He overcame insurmountable difficulties in his life and career, working at all sorts of menial jobs while attending school and improving his English. Eight times he knocked on the doors of Broadway and finally, with his ?electric? acting as praised by New York Times, he secured for himself the pivotal role of ?the Engineer? in the Broadway musical ?Miss Saigon.? Wang's is the story of a successful Chinese immigrant whose American dream came true. (For this item please quote stock ID 16459) ISBN: 9780966542110

This album of photographs was compiled to honour the 130th anniversary of the birth of Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) and has just become available in the West. The album comprises more than 500 pictures, a good number of which have never published before. Each photograph is accompanied by a carefully researched caption (in English and Chinese), and each chapter is prefaced by relevant biographical details. (For this item please quote stock ID 16828) ISBN: 9787208024601

Genghis Khan, Mongolia?s most well-known conqueror, led an eventful childhood after the sudden and tragic death of his chieftain father. Abandoned by his own tribe which was torn apart by internal strife, he and his siblings, together with their mother, struggled to survive on the harsh steppes of Mongolia. This comic version of Genghis Khan (in the ASIAPAC Comic Series) charts his rise from an angst-ridden youth trying to rebuild his clan to become a fearsome warrior fighting back to regain what he had lost and more. This is the tale of one man who laid claim to the whole of Mongolia and created a mammoth empire stretching across from Asia and Europe; a man whose name invoked fear in rulers everywhere, a man who was regarded by the people as the God of Battle. Genghis Khan, through his great vision, courage and determination, overcame all odd to make history by almost conquering the whole world. (For this item please quote stock ID 17004) ISBN: 9789813068643

Sold at 12 as a child bride for 5,000 yuan by an ambitious father and hostile stepmother, this beautiful and talented Chinese girl fled to become a famous actress and revolutionary. It is only a part of the true story of Wang Ying, born into the feudal China of 1915, who rebelled against the destiny planned for her and surged into an astonishing life. An intellectual who left a successful movie carer before age 20, Wang Ying was jailed by the Kuomintang in the 1930s and in the USA during the McCarthyite 1950s. She died in prison in 1974 during the Cultural Revolution. (For this item please quote stock ID 17040) ISBN: 9787119004020