Author: Yutang LinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 815
Book Description
Moment in Peking
Author: Yutang LinMidnight in Peking
Author: Paul FrenchPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101580380
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela Werner was found at the base of the Fox Tower, which, according to local superstition, is home to the maliciously seductive fox spirits. As British detective Dennis and Chinese detective Han investigate, the mystery only deepens and, in a city on the verge of invasion, rumor and superstition run rampant. Based on seven years of research by historian and China expert Paul French, this true-crime thriller presents readers with a rare and unique portrait of the last days of colonial Peking.
My Country and My People
Author: Yutang LinPeking Story
Author: David KiddPublisher: Eland Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A haunting and delicately observed description of the last days of Mandarin culture before the revolution, 'Peking Story' is a testimony to a way of life, a culture, an aesthetic and a civilisation which has since completely disappeared.
Letter from Peking
Author: Pearl Sydenstricker BuckPublisher: Leicester, Eng. : Ulverscroft
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The story of an American-Chinese family separated by the communist revolution in China, as they struggle to overcome difficulties and the prejudices a family of mixed blood must face. The half-Chinese husband remains behind in China, while the mother and teenage son go back to the mother's original home state of Vermont. The anxious wife awaits word from her husband, as the young mixed-race son falls in love with an American girl. The mother breaks up this particular romance.
The Most Wanted Man in China
Author: Fang LizhiPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1627794999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
"A long-awaited memoir by the celebrated physicist whose clashes with the Chinese regime helped inspired the Tiananmen Square protests describes how in spite of his scientific contributions he was sentenced to hard labor for decades and eventually sought asylum from the U.S., "--NoveList.
Hand-grenade Practice in Peking
Author: Frances WoodPublisher: John Murray Pubs Limited
ISBN: 9780719557811
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In 1975 I went to Peking for a year, together with nine other British students who had been exchanged by the British Council for ten Chinese students. The latter knew exactly what they were doing: learning English in order to further the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. We were less sure. From 1966, China had been turned upside down by young Red Guards who were encouraged to Bombard the Headquarters'. Professors, surgeons, artists, pianists, novelists and film directors were attacked for their bourgeois pursuit of excellence or their attachment to decadent Western ideas. Though by 1975 there were no longer violent street battles or badly beaten bodies floating down the Pearl River, we found Peking University governed by a Revolutionary Committee of workers, peasants and Party members determined that we should not learn too much and become experts divorced from the masses. With our Chinese classmates, we spent half our time in factories, getting in the way of workers making railway engines, or in the fields, learning from peasants how to bundle cabbage or plant rice seedlings in muddy water. Heroically, we stayed up half the night to dig rather shallow underground shelter
Evening Chats in Beijing
Author: Eugene Perry LinkPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393310658
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"A lively survey of today's China as seen by [its] brooding intellectuals. A terrific book." -Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Book Review
A Leaf in the Storm
Author: Yutang LinThe Beijing Conspiracy
Author: Shamini FlintPublisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1838851682
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
'Flint . . . creates fascinating, unforgettable characters' Booklist A LONG-LOST DAUGHTER. AN EXPLOSIVE SECRET. A LETHAL CONSPIRACY. Ex-Delta Force soldier Jack Ford is trying to put the past behind him. But when he receives a letter from someone he hasn’t spoken to in thirty years, claiming he has a daughter, he can’t resist investigating for himself. Soon he’s on a plane to China, a country he hasn’t returned to since witnessing the atrocities of the Tiananmen Square massacre. But on his search he stumbles upon a document which both the Chinese and American governments are desperately chasing. Now Jack is trapped in an impossible dilemma: save his daughter or prevent a new world war where thousands will lose their lives.