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The Chinese Revolution

(1911-1989)
Examines the causes and effects of uprisings in China throughout the twentieth century, and discusses the efforts of Mao Zedong to create a society free of inequality, poverty, and foreign control.

The sea of trees

1997
After her liberation from a Japanese prison camp in Indochina at the end of World War II, Tian, a young French-Chinese girl, supports her family in Communist Saigon as a translator and travels to Biarritz to arrange for their escape.

Through Chinese eyes

tradition, revolution, and transformation
2007

Japan, the toothless tiger

2013
Declan Hayes explores the threats Japan faces in the coming decades, particularly if the United States downscales its military presence in the region.

The Chinese

portrait of a people
1977

The Chinese Revolution

(1911-1989)
2005
Examines the causes and effects of uprisings in China throughout the twentieth century, and discusses the efforts of Mao Zedong to create a society free of inequality, poverty, and foreign control.

Bitter winds

a memoir of my years in China's Gulag
1994

Leaving point

1987
Home from boarding school to spend Christmas with their missionary parents, fourteen-year-old Ruth and her brothers find that the Communist Revolution has brought about many changes and new restrictions that complicate Ruth's growing friendship with a young Chinese girl who may not be what she seems. Sequel to "The Bomber's Moon.".

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