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Books : Biography : Social & Health Issues : Cultural History : Chinese
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Mao Zedong was one of the greatest leaders of China's history.
By the time he died in 1976, he had profoundly changed the course of history.
In this ebook you will learn more interesting facts about the revolution in China.
Many people says that he was responsible for the deaths of perhaps 60 million people.
If for some reason you don't like this book - your money back is guaranteed!
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The true story of how God took a young, half-starved boy from a poor village in Henan Province, China, and used him to preach the gospel despite intense persecution.
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Witty, entertaining and provocative, this is a unique and important memoir that will transform your perspective of parenting forever
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This is the story of a younger daughter and her determination to survive the pain of a lonely childhood in China.
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A story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored by her millionaire father and unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. It is a story of greed, hatred and jealousy; a domestic drama that is played against the extraordinary political events in China and Hong Kong.
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Unbearably moving, intensely passionate, deeply personal account of life as seen through the eyes of one of America's best-loved novelists
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Adeline Yen Mah first told her story in the emotive, bestselling Falling Leaves, an adult autobiography which charted her passage from childhood through to womanhood. Here in Chinese Cinderella she relates her tale for younger readers, detailing her difficult life as an unwanted and deeply misunderstood child.Christened with the Chinese name Jun-ling, her mother died just a few days after her birth, and from that moment her fate within her family was sealed. As one of seven siblings, including two children from her father's second marriage, Jun-ling struggled to maintain her dignity from a young age, treated as she was with a vicious contempt by all around her at home, apart from her beloved Aunt Baba and her elderly grandfather.
Growing up as she did in a relatively wealthy Chinese family in the 40s and 50s, the privileges that money would normally give such a child passed her by, and even her intelligence which shone through as early as kindergarten could not save her from the emotional brutality of a family who simply did not love her.
Jun-ling¹s story, written from the very heart of the successful adult she has become, is a stinging and hostile tale of a child whose young life was blighted by lack of care and affection and is an emotional roller coaster journey which, without actually falling into the trap of melodrama, will wring tears of rage, sadness and deep, deep frustration from any reader. (Age 10 and over) --Susan Harrison
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The history of Zen can be almost as perplexing as its cryptic koan. In many accounts of Zen history, it is often hard to tell who is Chinese and who is Japanese, who lived in the sixth century and who in the 16th. Andy Ferguson attempts to clear the air once and for all. In his Zen's Chinese Heritage, he organises all of the Chinese Zen masters from Boddhidharma at the turn of the fifth century to Huikai in the 13th century, presenting their core records and writings in chronological order by generation--25 generations in all. Drawing from Wudeng Huiyan (Compendium of Five Lamps) and other records, Ferguson translates the classic Zen teachings, from dialogues to anecdotes to koan, in spare, straightforward language. Included is an expertly arranged fold-out lineage chart of the Zen ancestors, with cross-referencing by Japanese, Chinese pinyin, and Chinese Wade-Giles transcriptions. Ferguson's work is not only a priceless treasury of Zen literature, it is a road map to the history of Zen. --Brian Bruya
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Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze river. He noted down crafted sketches of those he met on scraps of paper. This collection features Western missionaries, army officers and company managers who are culturally out of their depth in the immensity of the Chinese civilisation.
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Rooting around in a Kyoto antique shop, Stephen Addiss came across a fine example of literati painting by a hand he didn't recognise. Little did he know then that he had discovered an artist he now calls the last of Japan's great literati, Fukuda Kodojin. Kodojin, who styled himself "Old Taoist", should have gone the way of other scholarly effetes with Japan's radical 19th-century modernisation. Instead, he wandered in the boundless realms of the three treasures--painting, poetry and calligraphy--until his death in 1944. Addiss had discovered the genuine article, a scholar of cultured sensibility who had mastered the ancient Chinese arts and expressed them with a style all his own. Addiss introduces us to that style through dozens of examples of his painting and calligraphy, and over 250 poems. To translate the Chinese language poetry, he recruited Jonathan Chaves, who shows Kodojin's work to be elegant and wistful, echoing themes of Confucianism and Taoism. Kodojin's work transports us back to a time when art was a way of communicating among friends and not cheapened by exchanges of money. Old Taoist reminds us that even in a modern world, the pursuits of beauty and genuineness are not only possible but necessary. --Brian Bruya
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Includes the stories of Chinese mothers whose daughters have been wrenched from them, and brings us the voices of some adoptive mothers from different parts of the world.
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The story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored by her millionaire father and unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. A story of greed, hatred and jealousy; a domestic dramais played against the extraordinary political events in China and Hong Kong. Written with the emotional force of a novel but with a vividness drawn from a personal and political background. FALLING LEAVES has become a surprise bestseller all over the world.
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