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2011, c2009., General, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Call No: Fic Koo Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Banned in China, this controversial and politically charged novel tells the story of the search for an entire month erased from official Chinese history. Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one could care less--except for a small circle of friends, who will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the sinister cheerfulness and amnesia that have possessed the Chinese nation. When they kidnap a high-ranking official and force him to reveal all, what they learn--not only about their leaders, but also about their own people--stuns them to the core. It is a message that will astound the world."--Publisher.
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By Yan, Geling2012., Adult, Harvill Secker Call No: Fic Yan Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: December 1937. The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church. Among them is Shujuan, through whose thirteen-year-old eyes we witness the shocking events that follow. The church is supposedly neutral ground in the war between China and Japan, but it becomes clear the Japanese are not obeying international rules of engagement. As they pour through the streets of Nanking, raping and pillaging the civilian population, the girls are in increasing danger.
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-- 7th day2014., Adult, Pantheon Books Call No: Fic Hua Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Yang Fei was born on a moving train. Lost by his mother, adopted by a young switchman, raised with simplicity and love, he is utterly unprepared for the tempestuous changes that await him and his country. As a young man, he searches for a place to belong in a nation that is ceaselessly reinventing itself, but he remains on the edges of society. At age forty-one, he meets an accidental and unceremonious death. Lacking the money for a burial plot, he must roam the afterworld aimlessly, without rest. Over the course of seven days, he encounters the souls of the people he's lost. As Yang Fei retraces the path of his life, we meet an extraordinary cast of characters: his adoptive father, his beautiful ex-wife, his neighbors who perished in the demolition of their homes. Traveling on, he sees that the afterworld encompasses all the casualties of today -- the organ sellers, the young suicides, the innocent convicts -- as well as the hope for a better life to come.
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By Ai, Mi2011., Adult, House of Anansi Press Call No: Fic Ai Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: City dweller Jingqui is selected to work on an education project in the countryside to further the Cultural Revolution. Clever and curious, she wants to fit in and do well in her new environment, but instead, inappropriately, she falls in love with the son of a powerful army general.
