1912-1949

Contains seven essays that provide information and analysis of the Chinese Revolution, from its origins in first decades of the twentieth century, through 1998.

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.

Chronicles the life and career of Mao Zedong, discussing his work and a revolutionary general, his founding and leading of the world's largest nation, and his reputation as a brutal political manipulator.

An account of the Soong family whose wealth and power dominated China and American policy toward Asia in the 20th century.

Living in China during the late 1940s, Ying gives all her hard-earned money to the grandmother of a classmate who has drowned.

Helen Foster Snow tells of her marriage to brilliant American correspondent Edgar Snow, their home in Peking, and her life in China at a time of civil dissension as the Communists rose to power.

The story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land during famine, drought, and revolution.

Photographs and text describe the events of the years that journalist Edgar Snow spent in China ranging from the late 1920's to the Communist Revolution in 1949.

During the final days of the Japanese occupation of China, Shao-shao celebrates his tenth birthday, observes traditional holidays with his family, and befriends the daughter of a traitor.

An account of the Communist victory in China, the rise to power of Mao Tsetung, and the Long March undertaken by the Red Army in 1934.