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    The Book of Secrets

    Xinran Xue

    The spellbinding story of the secret life of a spy in modern China, drawn from an extraordinary archive of personal diaries and letters.

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    Family, Children, and Tourism in China

    This edited volume explores various issues in family tourism studies and complements the dramatic development of this market segment in China. The book concentrates on family and children tourism, and…

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    The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices

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    For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. This unforgettable book is the story of…

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    Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet

    Xinran

    Determined to find out what happened to her husband, Shu Wen joins his regiment, is taken hostage, and embarks on a life-changing journey through the Tibetan countryside–a journey that will…

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    Buy Me the Sky: The remarkable truth of China’s one-child generations

    Xinran

    Tells the remarkable stories of men and women born in China after 1979 - the recent generations raised under China’s single-child policy. From the businessman’s son unable to pack his…

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    What the Chinese Don’t Eat

    Xinran

    What the Chinese Don’t Eat collects these pieces together for the first time to give one unique Chinese woman’s perspective on the connections and differences between the lives of British…

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    Sky Burial

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    As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky…

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    China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation

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    Includes grandparents and great-grandparents who sum up in their own words the vast changes that have overtaken China’s people over a century. This book is also at once a journey…

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    China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation

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    Includes grandparents and great-grandparents who sum up in their own words the vast changes that have overtaken China’s people over a century. This book is also at once a journey…

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    Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love

    Xinran

    Originally published in Great Britain in 2010 by Chatto & Windus.

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    The Good Women Of China: Hidden Voices

    Xinran

    For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves.

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    Miss Chopsticks

    Xinran

    Sisters Three, Five and Six don’t have much education, but they know two things for certain: their mother is a failure because she hasn’t produced a son, and they only…

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    Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love

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    Ten chapters, ten women and many stories of heartbreak, including her own: Xinran once again takes us right into the lives of Chinese women and their lost daughters.

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    The Promise: Love and Loss in Modern China

    Xinran Xue

    A spellbinding story of love and the history of modern China.

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    Family, Children, and Tourism in China

    This edited volume explores various issues in family tourism studies and complements the dramatic development of this market segment in China. The book concentrates on family and children tourism, and…

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    The Promise: Love and Loss in Modern China

    Xinran Xue

    A spellbinding story of love and the history of modern China.

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    Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora: Jung Chang, Xinran, Hong Ying, Anchee Min, Adeline Yen Mah

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    The mention of Chinese women writers in diaspora immediately brings to mind Jung Chang (b. 1952) and her Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (1991), which won the 1992 NCR…

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    Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora: Jung Chang, Xinran, Hong Ying, Anchee Min, Adeline Yen Mah

    Amy Tak-yee Lai

    The mention of Chinese women writers in diaspora immediately brings to mind Jung Chang (b. 1952) and her Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (1991), which won the 1992 NCR…

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    Sky Burial

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    In this volume, Xinran recreates Shuwen’s extraordinary search for her missing husband, Kejun in Tibet. It follows her entry into a landscape that nothing had prepared her for and her…

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    Wide-area Oscillation Identification and Damping Control in Power Systems

    Chao Lu,Jingyi Zhang,Xinran Zhang,Yi Zhao

    Investigates smart electric vehicle charging. This book focuses jointly on the quality of service for EV users and the stability and reliability of the power grid. It lays out a…

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