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Buy Me the Sky: The Remarkable Truth of China's One-Child Generations by Xinran
37.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
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
Buy Me the Sky: The Remarkable Truth of China's One-Child Generations by Xinran
28.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
"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
China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
37.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
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
29.99 NZD
Category: History
"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)
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"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
Miss Chopsticks by Xinran (tr from Chinese Esther Tyldesley)
27.99 NZD
Category: General 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
Sky Burial by Xinran
37.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Xinran's extraordinary second book takes the reader right to the hidden heart of one of the world's most mysterious and inaccessible countries. In March 1958, a Chinese woman learns that her husband, an idealistic army doctor, has died whilst serving in Tibet. Determined to know what has happened to him ...Show more
Sky Burial by Xinran (tr Julia Lovell & Esther Tyldesley)
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
The Good Women of China by Xinran
16.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
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 through the country for its unflinching portrayal of what it meant to be a woman in modern C ...Show more
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. This book presents the story of how Xinran negotiated the minefield of restrictions imposed on Chinese journalists to reach out to women across the country. ...Show more
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran
34.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good
For eight years Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. This is the story of how Xinran negotiated the minefield of restrictions imposed on Chinese journalists to reach out to women across the country.
The Promise - Love and Loss in Modern China by Xinran Xue; William Spence (Translator)
24.99 NZD
Category: History
At the start of the twentieth century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born. While their future was arranged by their families, this couple had much to be grateful for. Not only did they come from similar backgrounds - and as such were recognized as a good m ...Show more