1976-2002

A comprehensive introduction to China that examines the nation's status quo in the twenty-first century, and discusses what life is like for Chinese teenagers, industry successes, government censorship, the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing, and other related topics.

Baldy Li, a sex-obsessed boy, and Song Gang, his sensitive, intelligent stepbrother, live in newly capitalist China, where they struggle with their bond and make and lose money around the village of Liu Town as everybody experiences the shift to extreme materialism after the Cultural Revolution.

In order to save her baby sister, fourteen-year-old Chu Ju leaves her rural home in modern China and earns food and shelter by working on a sampan, tending silk worms, and planting rice seedlings, while wondering if she will ever see her family again.

An eye-opening investigation into China's Communist Party and its integral role in the country's rise as a global superpower and rival of the United States.

Deng Xiaoping was the driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late twentieth century. He confronted the damage wrought by the Cultural Revolution, dissolved Mao's cult of personality, and loosened the economic and social policy that had stunted China's growth. He welcomed moderization and technology and opened trade relations with the West.

When Anna, an Australian art student, moves to Shanghai for her studies, she feels alienated as a foreigner until she befriends Chenxi, her fellow student and guide, and becomes entangled in his political activism.