Wang Lang, a simple peasant farmer, takes as a wife a battered slave girl who becomes an indomitable, loyal woman. Working the land together, they prosper and increase their holdings, yet Wang eventually betrays his family and neglects the earth he had worshipped.
"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.
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.
