Little Green: A Memoir of Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Paperback - Chun Yu

Reducere. In this stunning, lyrical memoir that includes a curriculum guide, author Chun Yu recalls the Chinese Cultural Revolution from the perspective of a...

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This lively anthology explores the impact of the art, images and ideas associated with Maoism on artistic practices around the world from 1945 to t...

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Chenxin JiangNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 227 x 19Cover type:...

China's convulsive Cultural Revolution was conceived in 1966 as a 'great revolution that would touch the people to their very souls'. How are we to...

Publisher: PicadorAuthor(s): Yang JishengTranslator: Guo JianNumber of pages: 768Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 209 x 36Cover type: Paperb...

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Focusing on the influence of Maoist ideology and masculinist power on the representations of women in revolutionary opera films made during the Cul...

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Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Selma BlairIllustration(s): 30-40 black and white photographsNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 20...

A collection of poignant, relatable essays from the author of Never Have I Ever about coming out in her late twenties, entering into her first rela...

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This lively anthology explores the impact of the art, images and ideas associated with Maoism on artistic practices around the world from 1945 to t...

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Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.Publisher: ...

The definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.Illustrations: 1 Graph, 5 Tables, and 1 Map in Text / Note...

First published in 1981, Chun-fang Yu's The Renewal of Buddhism in China challenged the conventional view that Buddhism had reached its height unde...

Reducere. Now known to the Chinese as the ten years of chaos, the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76) brought death to thousands of Chinese and persecution...

A powerful and essential memoir of self-discovery . . . Brimming with beautiful remembrances of his grandfather and terrifying stories of abuse and...

A searing new memoir from Harry Potter star Evanna Lynch that shines a light into the darkness of disordered eating.Publisher: Headline Publishing ...

The No.3 Sunday Times bestselling 'masterpiece' (Andrew O'Hagan)

An extraordinary new memoir from Harry Potter star Evanna LynchPublisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Evanna LynchNumber of pages: 480Publi...

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At various times throughout her adult life in the United States, Katharina Rich Perlow was asked how her family survived World War II in Vienna, Au...

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Reducere. When Red Guards arrived in Tibet in 1966, intent on creating a classless society, they unleashed a decade of revolutionary violence, political rall...

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Reducere. DescriptionIn 1968, the director of USAID coined the term "green revolution" to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hun...

Reducere. Resisting Spirits is a reconsideration of the significance and periodization of literary production in the high socialist era, roughly 1953 through...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Valerie Biden OwensIllustration(s): Plus two 8-page color photo insertsNumber of pages: 288Publication date:...

Reducere. The Unknown Cultural Revolution challenges the established narrative of China's Cultural Revolution, which assumes that this period of great social...