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Buy Me the Sky: The Remarkable Truth of China's One-Child Generations by Xinran
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
With journalistic acumen and a novelist's flair, Xinran tells the remarkable stories of men and women born in China after 1979 - the recent generations raised under China's single-child policy. At a time when the country continues to transform at the speed of light, these generations of precious 'one an ...Show more
China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
$34.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
In 1912, five thousand years of feudal rule ended in China. Warlords, Western businessmen, soldiers, missionaries, and Japanese all ruled China, exploited, and fought one another, and the Chinese. In 1949, Mao Zedong came to power. China Witness is a personal testimony from a normally silent generation, ...Show more
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of loss & love by Xinran
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother is made up of the stories of Chinese mothers whose daughters have been wrenched from them, and also brings us the voices of some adoptive mothers from different parts of the world. These are stories which Xinran could not bring herself to tell previously, because t ...Show more
Miss Chopsticks by Xinran
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of the bestselling The Good Women of China comes the uplifting story of three sisters who, like so many migrant workers in today's China, leave their peasant community to seek their fortune in the big city. The Li sisters don't have much education, but one thing has been drummed into th ...Show more
Miss Chopsticks by Xinran (tr from Chinese Esther Tyldesley)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of the bestselling "The Good Women of China" comes the uplifting story of three sisters who, like so many migrant workers in today's China, leave their peasant community to seek their fortune in the big city. The Li sisters don't have much education, but one thing has been drummed into t ...Show more
Sky Burial by Xinran (tr Julia Lovell & Esther Tyldesley)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel
As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and fascinated her. Several decades later Xinran met Shu Wan, a Chinese woman who had spent years searching for her missing husband who ...Show more
The Good Women of China by Xinran
$14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast every evening, "Words on the Night Breeze" became famous through the country for its unflinching portrayal of what it meant to be a woman in modern C ...Show more
What the Chinese Don't Eat by Xinran
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The author of The Good Women of China offers a collection of her popular columns from The Guardian. She covers a vast range of intriguing topics - such as overcoming her cultural inhibitions about kissing, why socks were once a status symbol in rural China, and reluctance to embrace Christmas (which ...Show more
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