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1	Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress more books like this by Sijie Dai, Ina Rilke (Translator) add to wishlist In this novella, set in 1971 China at the height of the Cultural Revolution, two young men have been sent away to the mountains for "reeducation" through hard labor. There they encounter a novel by Balzac--a Western book forbidden under the Mao regime--and it changes their lives and the life of the seamstress with whom one of them falls in love. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.19! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Life and Death in Shanghai more books like this by Nien Cheng add to wishlist This is a first-hand account of China's cultural revolution. Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 and subsequently jailed. All attempts to make her confess to the charges of being a British spy failed; all efforts to indoctrinate her were ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood more books like this by Alexandra Fuller add to wishlist Raised in Rhodesia during the Rhodesian War (1971-1979), this memoirist expresses the violence of African politics and the African landscape from her perspective as a white citizen born in England. Insects, landmines, leopards, and terrorists imprint this coming-of-age story. A New York Times Notable Book of 2002. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966 more books like this by Rick Atkinson (Afterword by) add to wishlist The first trade paperback edition of the bestseller about West Point's Class of 1966--the generation of officers who fought in Vietnam--by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Atkinson. of photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa more books like this by Peter Godwin add to wishlist In 1964, when Peter Godwin was five, he experienced the end of white rule in Africa through the death of his neighbor, murdered by guerillas. This is the story of his growing-up years in chaotic Zimbabwe. The son of a country doctor and an engineer, he became a soldier fighting in a civil war, then a journalist who returned home to cover the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.71! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Son of the Revolution more books like this by Liang Heng, Judith Shapiro, Heng Liang add to wishlist An autobiography of a young Chinese whose childhood and adolescence were spent in Mao's China during the Cultural Revolution. see all copies from $2.42! new only from $9.16! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary more books like this by Gao Wenqian, Peter Rand (Translator), Lawrence R Sullivan (Translator) add to wishlist Based on long-secret documents smuggled out of the country, this is the first authoritative biography of one of the most important, most mythologized leaders in the history of communist China. When a version of this biography was published in Hong Kong in 2003, people found in possession of it were disciplined. Works about Zhou Enlai are heavily ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution more books like this by Gao Yuan, Gao Yuan, William A Joseph (Designer) add to wishlist Born Red is an artistically wrought personal account, written very much from inside the experience, of the years 1966-1969, when the author was a young teenager at middle school. It was in the middle schools that much of the fury of the Cultural Revolution and Red Guard movement was spent, and Gao was caught up in very dramatic events, which he ... see all copies from $8.82! new only from $30.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Long Gray Line more books like this by Rick Atkinson add to wishlist In this book, the last 25 years of American history is told through the true experiences of a group of men. It begins with their time as cadets at West Point, and their subsequent careers as army officers, almost all in Vietnam. It ends with their attempts to fit into civilian life again. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	A Generation Lost: China Under the Cultural Revolution more books like this by Zi-Ping Luo add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
11	Walt Disney's Fantasia more books like this by John Culhane add to wishlist Noted film historian John Culhane tells the story behind the creation of "Fantasia", using a wealth of memorable illustrations, including actual frames from the classic film. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $44.20! \| first editions
12	Mao's Last Revolution more books like this by Professor Roderick MacFarquhar, Michael Schoenhals add to wishlist The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the People's Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule. Before 1966, China was a typical communist state, with a command economy and a powerful party able to keep the population under control. But during the Cultural Revolution, in a move unprecedented ... see all copies from $14.33! new only from $15.14! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Red Azalea more books like this by Min Anshee, Anchee Min add to wishlist Anchee Min, "raised on the teachings of Mao", worked at a hopelessly infertile communal farm. This toil for no apparent reason caused her to question her upbringing and devotion to Mao; when she traveled to Beijing to audition for the part of Red Azalea in one of Madame Mao's propagandistic productions, she became completely disillusioned with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.46! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe more books like this by Christina Lamb add to wishlist Through the parallel accounts of two people in Zimbabwe--one a poor black maid, one a rich white farmer--British journalist Lamb tells the compelling story of a country ravaged first by colonial settlers and now by brutal civil war. Based on interviews with Aqui and Nigel over many years, including 12 undercover trips since 2002, Lamb recounts the ... see all copies from $2.24! new only from $9.92! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Selous Scouts : top secret war more books like this by Ron Reid Daly, Peter Stiff add to wishlist see all copies from $69.95! new only from $362.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho more books like this by James Ferguson add to wishlist see all copies from $24.50! new only from $24.50!
17 view cover	Growing Up in the People's Republic: Conversations Between Two Daughters of China's Revolution more books like this by Weili Ye, Ma Xiadong add to wishlist An oral history of growing up in China during the dramatic years of the Cultural Revolution of the 1950s and adult life in Communist China in the 1980s. see all copies from $15.00! new only from $31.53! \| SVS
18 view cover	Art and China's Revolution more books like this by Melissa Chiu add to wishlist Although numerous books on the Cultural Revolution have been published, they do not analyze the profound shift in aesthetic values that occurred in China after the Communists took power. This fascinating book is the first to focus on artwork produced from the 1950s to the 1970s, when Mao Zedong was in leadership, and argues that important ... see all copies from $27.95! new only from $39.78! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Red Mirror: Children of China's Cultural Revolution more books like this by Chihua Wen, Bruce Jones (Editor), Richard P Madsen (Foreword by) add to wishlist These evocative stories bring to life the tragic personal impact of the Cultural Revolution on the families of Chinas intellectuals. Now adults, survivors recall their childhood during the tumultuous years between 1965 and 1976, when Maos death finally drew a curtain on a bitterly failed social and political experiment. A series of first-person ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.72! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class more books like this by Joel Andreas add to wishlist Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, author Joel Andreas chronicles how two mutually hostile groupsâ the poorly educated peasant revolutionaries who seized power in 1949 and Chinaâ s old educated eliteâ coalesced to form a new dominant ... see all copies from $20.93! new only from $21.96! \| SVS
21 view cover	Feet to the Fire: CIA Covert Operations in Indonesia, 1957-1958 more books like this by Kenneth Conboy, James Morrison add to wishlist Today the vast archipelago of Southeast Asia islands known as Indonesia is in the headlines because of political instability, religious tension, and violence in the streets. Forty years ago similar conditions led the Central Intelligence Agency to mount a top-secret covert action campaign designed to hold that nation's left-leaning President ... see all copies from $12.72! new only from $22.96! \| first editions \| SVS
22	The Flogging of Phinehas McIntosh: A Tale of Colonial Folly and Injustice: Bechuanaland, 1933 more books like this by Michael Crowder add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! new only from $18.00! \| first editions
23 view cover	Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress more books like this by Dai Sijie add to wishlist In 1971 Mao's campaign against the intellectuals is at its height. Our narrator and his best friend, Luo, distinctly unintellectual but guilty of being the sons of doctors, have been sent to a remote mountain village to be 'reeducated'. The kind of education that takes place among the peasants of Phoenix Mountain involves carting buckets of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.02! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Little Green: Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution more books like this by Chun Yu add to wishlist In China in 1966, Chun Yu was born as the Great Cultural Revolution began under Chairman Mao. Here, she recalls her childhood as a witness to a country in turmoil and struggle--the only life she knew. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.73! \| signed copies \| SVS
25	Blood Red Sunset: 2a Memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution more books like this by Ma Bo, Bo Ma, Professor Howard Goldblatt (Translator) add to wishlist A memoir of the Cultural Revolution in the countryside of China. The author was a fervent member of the Red Guard who was branded as an 'active counterrevolutionary' after casually criticizing a Chinese leader, and, as a result, was beaten and imprisoned. see all copies from $9.00! new only from $12.50! \| first editions

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