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Distant Sunflower Fields - by Li Juan

£10.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781838905064 | ISBN 10: 1838905065

‘The earth’s most powerful force is not its quake, but rather its ability to be home for myriad creatures to grow’ An iron-willed mother, an ageing grandmother, a pair of mismatched dogs and 90 mu of less-than-ideal farmland: thes ... more
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Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up - by Xiaolu Guo

£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784702946 | ISBN 10: 1784702943

*Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017* *Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2017* *Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2018* *Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Sunday Times* Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for ... more
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The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains - by Choo Waihong

£17.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784537241 | ISBN 10: 1784537241

In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women', where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilinea ... more
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Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China - by Leta Hong Fincher

£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783607891 | ISBN 10: 1783607890

In the early years of the People’s Republic, the Communist Party sought to transform gender relations. Yet those gains have been steadily eroded in China’s post-socialist era. Contrary to the image presented by China’s media, women in ... more
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The Woman Warrior - by Maxine Hong Kingston

£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447275220 | ISBN 10: 1447275225

With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo A classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America. When we Chinese girls listened to the ... more
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Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants - by Hsiao-Hung Pai

£16.99 hardback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844678860 | ISBN 10: 1844678865

Each year, 200 million workers from China�s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China�s GDP, but is an unorgan ... more
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Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love - by Xinran, translated by Nicky Harman

£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099535751 | ISBN 10: 0099535750

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 ... more
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Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China - by Leslie T. Chang

£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780330447362 | ISBN 10: 033044736x

Every year in China millions of migrant workers leave their rural towns to find jobs in the cities. These people are the driving forces behind China�s economic boom: they work very hard and for little money to make the trainers, ornaments, designer h ... more
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Black Country to Red China: One Girl's Story from War-torn England to Revolutionary China - by Esther Cheo Ying

£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099536031 | ISBN 10: 009953603x

Born in pre-Revolutionary China and brought up in the Midlands, Esther Cheo Ying returned to China in 1949 after a traumatic childhood, convinced that there she would find the happiness and sense of belonging she longed for. Caught up in the turmoil ... more
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The Long March - by Sun Shuyun

£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780007194803 | ISBN 10: 0007194803

Every nation has its founding myth, and for modern China it is the Long March. In 1934, the fledgling Communist Party and its 200,000 strong armies were forced out of their bases by Chiang Kaishek and his National troops. Walking more than 1 ... more
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Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud - by Sun Shuyun

£14.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780007129744 | ISBN 10: 0007129742

Sun Shuyun grew up in China during the Cultural Revoultion. Each night she listened to her grandmother's forbidden Buddhist prayers. Each day she lived the tenets of her Communist father, an army veteran. But as the Revolution failed even her father' ... more
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