"Though secrets and lies keep Juliette and Roma apart, a monster still prowls the city of Shanghai, and the two are going to have to put aside their differences to end this threat once and for all"--Provided by publisher.
In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.
Wang Lung, a peasant in China in the 1920s, becomes a prosperous landowner with the help of his humble wife, O'Lan, with whom he shares a devotion to duty, land, and survival.
Examines the causes and effects of uprisings in China throughout the twentieth century, and discusses the efforts of Mao Zedong to create a society free of inequality, poverty, and foreign control.
Chiang Ching-kuo and the revolutions in China and Taiwan
Taylor, Jay
2000
Chronicles the life of Chiang Ching-kuo, son and political heir of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, and discusses his involvement in the revolutions in China and Taiwan.
Recounts the journey more than eighty-six thousand Red Army soldiers took across China in 1934 in the hopes of escaping Nationalist forces, describing the brutal conditions they faced on the four thousand-mile march.
Examines the causes and effects of uprisings in China throughout the twentieth century, and discusses the efforts of Mao Zedong to create a society free of inequality, poverty, and foreign control.
During the Japanese occupation of parts of China, twelve-year-old Ye Xian is thrown out of her father's and stepmother's home, joins a martial arts group, and tries to help her aunt and the Americans in their struggle against the Japanese invaders. Includes historical notes.
