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Buy Me the Sky: The Remarkable Truth of China's One-Child Generations by Xinran
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
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
China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | 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
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
"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
Sky Burial by Xinran (tr Julia Lovell & Esther Tyldesley)
$27.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
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
$17.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
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
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