1949-1976

Examines the Communist Revolution in China and the social and economic changes under the leadership of Mao.

Lin Kong struggles to balance his life between the two women he loves and the country that is trying to rule his life.

Spine title: Rise of the Asian superpowers. Discusses the revolution in China and its resulting changes in Asia, and other conflicts throughout the Asian continent.

Traces the life and career of the peasant who transformed China into a revolutionary communist state.

Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois, " and people of laughter.

Chun Yu, born in a small city in China, describes her childhood growing up in the middle of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution.

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.

This book opens with background information on the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), presents controversies on the fervor of the Red Guards to maintain revolutionary enthusiasm, and includes personal narratives from people whose lives were greatly impacted by the Cultural Revolution.

A young woman's eyewitness account of China's Cultural Revolution and its lasting effects on Chinese society and personal lives.

Mei Wang leaves a position with the ministry of public security , becomes an illegal private investigator, and is hired to find a missing jade seal, which leads her to family secrets as well as details of Communist China's history.