Anchee Min - Böcker

With his smooth, warm, ruddy face which radiated light in all directions, Chairman Mao Zedong was a fixture in Chinese propaganda posters produced between the birth of the Peoples Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s. Chairman Mao, portrayed as a ...

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Ett unikt porträtt av världens äldsta civilisation historia, nutid och framtid. Kina är en välinformerad visuell guide till en av världens stora nationer. Mer än 700 specialbeställda fotografier i världsklass ger en fantastisk och tankeväckande bi...

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A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, this is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China. As a child, Min was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at seventeen, she was sent to work at a la...

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This novel, described by the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review as "nothing short of miraculous," is the story of Zebra Wong, a Chinese girl whose pragmatic mind conflicts with her passionate heart; Lion Head, her classmate, whose pench...

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Min offers a powerful revisionist portrait based on extensive research of one of the most important figures in Chinese history. "The Last Empress" is the story of Orchid's dramatic transition from a strong-willed, instinctive young woman...

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Min has returned to the devastating experience of the Cultural Revolution, which defined her youth, and created a captivating love story set against the backdrop of the horrors of Maoism. "Potent . . . chilling"--"Los Angeles Times....

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From a master of the historical novel, "Empress Orchid" sweeps readers into the splendid heart of the Forbidden City to tell the fascinating story of a young Chinese concubine who becomes China's last empress.

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To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine she enters the erotically charged and ritua...

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'Empress Orchid is strong on both sexual chicanery and violent conspiracy ... fascinating' GUARDIAN'An engrossing story ... enhanced by Min's imaginative power ... Like all good novelists, she implies as much as she says, and her characterisation ...

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Born into a devoutly Maoist family in 1950s Shanghai and forced to work on a communal farm from the age of seventeen, Anchee Min found herself in an alienating and hostile political climate, where her only friendships were perilous and intense. Bo...

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This novel, described by the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review as "e;nothing short of miraculous,"e; is the story of Zebra Wong, a Chinese girl whose pragmatic mind conflicts with her passionate heart; Lion Head, her classmate, whose pen...

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In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, two young girls from very different worlds collide and become inseparable companions. Willow is hardened by poverty and fearful for her future; Pearl is the daughter of a Christian missionary who desperate...

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'Vivid and entertaining ... this is history as it plays upon the emotions. Empires crumble, hearts are broken' THE TIMESFrom the bestselling author of Red Azalea comes the much-anticipated sequel to Empress OrchidAt the end of the nineteenth centu...

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''Full of sorrow and humour ... extraordinary'' NEW YORK TIMES ''Reckless and thrilling ... Min outwits and outworks the Western system, and this book is part underdog thriller as she claws her way to love and success'' THE TIMES The sequel to Anc...

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The acclaimed memoir from the bestselling author of Empress Orchid'Historically remarkable ... intensely moving' SUNDAY TIMES'The book sings. It is a small masterpiece' VOGUEBorn into a devoutly Maoist family in 1950s Shanghai and forced to work o...

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It is the end of the nineteenth century and China is riding on the crest of great change, but for nine-year-old Willow, the only child of a destitute family in the small southern town of Chin-kiang, nothing ever seems to change. Until the day she ...

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In 1994, Anchee Min made her literary debut with a memoir of growing up in China during the violent trauma of the Cultural Revolution. Red Azalea became an international bestseller and propelled her career as a successful, critically acclaimed aut...

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