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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung Chang
$24.00 NZD
$26.00 (7% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the centre of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history. Red Sister, Ching-ling, married the 'Father ...Show more
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
$31.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao- The Unknown StoryIn this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all ...Show more
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang; Jon Halliday
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
"Jung Chang's Wild Swanswas an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking biography of Mao Tse-tung. Based on a decade of research, ...Show more
The Empress Dowager Cixi - The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
$54.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor's numerous concubines and sexual part ...Show more
Wild Swans - Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A new edition of one of the bestselling and best-loved books of recent years, with a new introduction by the author. The publication of 'Wild Swans' in 1991 was a worldwide phenomenon. Not only did it become the bestselling non-fiction book in British publishing history, with sales of well over two mill ...Show more
Wild Swans - Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
$23.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more t ...Show more
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
$19.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans a popular bestseller and a critically acclaimed history of China that opened up the country to the world. Through the story of three generations of women in her own family-the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother, and the d ...Show more
Wild Swans : Three daughters of China by Jung Chang
$36.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
One of the best-selling and best-loved books of recent years, "Wild Swans" is an epic true story of how one family lived and survived through some of China's most unsettling and violent times. The publication of "Wild Swans" in 1991 was a worldwide phenomenon. Not only did it become the best-selling non ...Show more
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