1949-1976

An account of the victory of the Communist revolution in China and of the first four-and-a-half years of the government led by Mao Tse-tung.

Ting-Xing Ye recounts the brutality, horror, and desperation she and her family faced during the Chinese cultural revolution and reflects on how those events impacted every aspect of her life.

A biography of Chinese leader Mao Zedong, discussing the battles that helped shape him and reasons behind his popularity among his countrymen.

A history of China during the last three centuries, from the time Western nations began to play an important part in Chinese affairs.

Examines the Communist Revolution in China and the social and economic changes under the leadership of Mao.

Lin Kong struggles to balance his life between the two women he loves and the country that is trying to rule his life.

Spine title: Rise of the Asian superpowers. Discusses the revolution in China and its resulting changes in Asia, and other conflicts throughout the Asian continent.

Traces the life and career of the peasant who transformed China into a revolutionary communist state.

Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois, " and people of laughter.