1912-1949

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1912-1949

The Long March

the untold story
1985
Retraces the route of the Red Army of China's Communists in the face of Chiang Kai-shek's army in 1934. Includes interviews with survivors of the 6,000 mile march.

Red star over China

1968
Reprint of a 1937 text hailed as the first authentic account of the Chinese Communist Party and its social revolution, based upon interviews the author had with Mao Tse-tung and other Chinese leaders, as well as his first-person observations as a seven-year resident of the country.

Sun Yat-sen

1987
Examines the life of the leader who fought to establish a republic of China and unify the people under one stable government.

The good earth

1994
The story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land during famine, drought, and revolution.

China in the twentieth century

1974
A survey of twentieth-century Chinese history beginning with the Boxer uprising in 1900 and continuing to the U.S.-Chinese d?tente of 1973.

The Long March

the true history of communist China's founding myth
2006
Retraces the steps of the 200,000 soldiers in China's Communist Party that were forced into a strategic retreat across the barren north of China, where the few who survived the trek gathered strength and launched a new revolution.

First apple

1994
Ying works hard so that she can buy her grandmother a very special gift--an apple, something neither has ever tasted.

Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society

2005
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.

The Chinese Revolution

1980
Brief text and illustrations discuss reform attempts before 1949, the European influence, the 1911 Revolution, and the Kuomintang.

The good earth

2004
The story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land during famine, drought, and revolution.

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