This is not an illustrated edition. Unless one calls a book with 250 pages of text and 14 pictures an illustrated edition. The strengths of…
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Tag: Chinese Historical Biographies
Excellent and concise – Zhou Enlai
Readers looking for a concise and yet containing all the essential details of Zhou En Lai will delight in reading this recently published biography. Dillon…
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Average – Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary
This book published in 2007 is the most recent English language biography on Zhou En Lai after Eldest Son by Han Su Yin published in…
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Beautiful book – Grand Canal, Great River: The Travel Diary of a Twelfth-century Chinese Poet
This is a very interesting diary of a journey undertaken between July to Dec 1170. The famous poet Lu You was assigned to take up…
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Excellent biography — Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Deng was a giant of a man. Not in size but in stature. He was the man who ensured China grew to be an economic…
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A gem – The World of a Tiny Insect: A Memoir of the Taiping Rebellion and its Aftermath
The World of a Tiny Insect is a wonderful memoir of a childhood spent in the violence of the Taiping Rebellion. The author was 7…
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