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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 14 books in this booklist
£10.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781838905064 | ISBN 10: 1838905065
‘The earth’s most powerful force is not its quake, but rather its ability to be home for myriad creatures to grow’ An iron-willed mother, an ageing grandmother, a pair of mismatched dogs and 90 mu of less-than-ideal farmland: thes ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784702946 | ISBN 10: 1784702943
*Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017* *Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2017* *Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2018* *Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Sunday Times* Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for ... more
View book details£17.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784537241 | ISBN 10: 1784537241
In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women', where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilinea ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783607891 | ISBN 10: 1783607890
In the early years of the People’s Republic, the Communist Party sought to transform gender relations. Yet those gains have been steadily eroded in China’s post-socialist era. Contrary to the image presented by China’s media, women in ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447275220 | ISBN 10: 1447275225
With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo A classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America. When we Chinese girls listened to the ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780007463404 | ISBN 10: 0007463405
Few books have ever had such an impact as 'Wild Swans'. Since its first publication it has been translated into 30 languages and sold more than 10 million copies. Â Through the story of three generations of women in her own family - grandmother, moth ... more
View book details£16.99 hardback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844678860 | ISBN 10: 1844678865
Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorgan ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099535751 | ISBN 10: 0099535750
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 ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780330447362 | ISBN 10: 033044736x
Every year in China millions of migrant workers leave their rural towns to find jobs in the cities. These people are the driving forces behind China’s economic boom: they work very hard and for little money to make the trainers, ornaments, designer h ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408803134 | ISBN 10: 1408803135
A vivid memoir of a young girl growing up in Mao's China. Born during the Great Famine of the early 1960s, Hong Ying grew up in a slum on the hilly Yangtze bank, constantly aware of the sacrifices her family made so that she would survive. ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099536031 | ISBN 10: 009953603x
Born in pre-Revolutionary China and brought up in the Midlands, Esther Cheo Ying returned to China in 1949 after a traumatic childhood, convinced that there she would find the happiness and sense of belonging she longed for. Caught up in the turmoil ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780007194803 | ISBN 10: 0007194803
Every nation has its founding myth, and for modern China it is the Long March. In 1934, the fledgling Communist Party and its 200,000 strong armies were forced out of their bases by Chiang Kaishek and his National troops. Walking more than 1 ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780007129744 | ISBN 10: 0007129742
Sun Shuyun grew up in China during the Cultural Revoultion. Each night she listened to her grandmother's forbidden Buddhist prayers. Each day she lived the tenets of her Communist father, an army veteran. But as the Revolution failed even her father' ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780099440789 | ISBN 10: 0099440784
For eight groundbreaking 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 throughout the country for its unflinchi ... more
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