A Washington Post Best of 2012 pick Three generations of a family living under one roof reflect the dramatic transformations of an entire society in this memoir of life in 20th century China W
A Washington Post Best of 2012 pick ?Delightful . . . a book that brings a corner of modern China alive.”?The Wall Street Journal When Wenguang Huang was nine years old, his grandmother became
"The scandalous story of the corruption of the Bo Xilai family--the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood; Bo's secret lovers, who may have included Chinese film stars; the blackmailing by Bo's s
In 1973, when Wenguang Huang was eight, his grandmother became obsessed with her own death. Fearing cremation, she appealed to her family to promise to bury her after she'd died. This was in Xi'an, a
Traces a Communist Chinese family's fifteen-year struggle to honor a grandmother's dying wish to be buried in spite of a national ban of traditional Chinese practices, an effort that pitted family mem
"The award-winning exiled poet and author of The Corpse Walker shares a poignant account of his years in prison following the Tiananmen Square protests, describing the brutality he endured for writing
When journalist Liao Yiwu first stumbled upon a vibrant Christian community in the officially secular China, he knew little about Christianity. In fact, he?d been taught that religion was evil, and th
