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" ... chronicles the sweeping history of modern China through the lens of the nation's controversial one-child policy. Frog opens with a playwright nicknamed Tadpole who plans to write about his aunt. In her youth, Gugu--the beautiful daughter of a famous doctor and staunch Communist--is revered for her skill as a midwife. But when her lover defects, Gugu's own loyalty to the Party is questioned. She decides to prove her allegiance by strictly enforcing the one-child policy, keeping tabs on the number of children in the village, and performing abortions on women as many as eight months pregnant. In sharply personal prose, Mo Yan depicts a world of desperate families, illegal surrogates, forced abortions, and the guilt of those who must enforce the policy ... "--Provided by publisher.

Examines the efforts of Chinese industry to turn wild animals on the brink of extinction--including tigers, rhinos, and elephants--into livestock commodities through breeding them on farms.

A young girl, sent to Zhangjake Camp 46-19 on China's border with Inner Mongolia during Chairman Mao's cultural revolution, manages to sneak off to the home of Mother Han where she practices the piano in secret until being discovered by the guards.

The Thirteen Orphans, who represent the twelve animals of Chinese zodiac, plus the Cat, return to Earth where they must use their magical abilities to defend themselves and their loved ones from unseen enemies.

Recounts the life story of the Englishwoman who financed her own overland trip to China to become a missionary.

A biography of the Scottish missionary and runner who won a gold medal in the 1924 Olympics and went on to do missionary work in China.

In vivid, gonzo prose blending first-person reportage with exhaustive research and a sense of karma, Kelly and Jacobs describe China?s ancient love affair with coal, Bill Clinton?s blunders cutting free-trade deals enabling the U.S. to "export" manufacturing emissions to Asia in a shift that pilloried the West's middle class, Communist Party manipulation of eco-statistics, the horror of cancer villages, the deception of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and spellbinding peasant revolts against cancer-spreading plants involving thousands in mostly-censored mel?es. Ending with China?s monumental coal-bases decried by climatologists as a global warming dagger, The People's Republic of Chemicals names names and emphasizes humanity over bloodless statistics in a classic sure to ruffle feathers as an indictment of money as the real green that not even Al Gore can deny.

Details the history of the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900, in which groups of peasants in northern China began to band together into a secret society known as "Righteous and Harmonious Fists", called the "Boxers" by Western press wanted to rid China of all foreign influence and massacred foreigners until subdued by international forces.

A biography of Mao Zedong, drawing from documentary material, as well as interviews, to trace the life and career of the Chinese leader.