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In June 1989, thirteen-year-old Min and her activist parents attend a peaceful protest in Tiananmen Square, but their lives turn upside down when the military shows up bringing chaos and violence.

"Drawing from decades worth of primary sources, a unique look into the Chinese government's grand strategy and what its true foreign policy objectives mean for the United States. For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries--not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or even the Soviet Union--has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP. China is the sole exception, and it is fast emerging into a global superpower that could rival, if not eclipse, the United States. What does China want, does it have a grand strategy to achieve it, and what should the United States do about it? [The author] draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, memoirs by party leaders, as well as careful analysis of China's conduct, to provide a history of China's grand strategy since the end of the Cold War"--Adapted from publisher description.

High school senior Lei unexpectedly finds love amid the student protests in Beijing in 1989, forcing her to choose between her family and its legacy or her future with a revolutionary leader.

In graphic novel format, a young girl describes her experiences growing up in China, beginning with the death of Chairman Mao in 1976.

When a young woman learns her husband, who reportedly died many years earlier, is in fact alive, she agrees to leave her second husband and their son to live with her first husband, and she, her husbands, and her son must face the consequences of her decision.

Ian Johnson recounts the true stories of three ordinary people who find themselves fighting oppression and government corruption in China.

A collection of short stories by Ha Jin.

Unfolds the story of China's economic takeoff as well as the authors' personal account of the people they observed and came to know.

Examines leaders and policies that shaped China's late twentieth-century history, discussing the country's modernization since the death of Mao Tse-tung in 1976.

Examines the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, discussing the events that led to it, the actions of the students and the Chinese government, and its aftermath.