Anchee Min, Author . Houghton Mifflin $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-618-06886-9
A happy ending is relative to what precedes it—in this case, it stands in contrast to a horrific, true-to-life story about two girls growing up in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution. In the late '60s and early '70s, Chairman Mao...
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Anchee Min, Author . Houghton Mifflin $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-618-06887-6
Talk about story arc: poor girl from rural China auditions for a job as royal concubine, winds up as emperor's wife number four, gives birth to the "last Emperor," rules China as regent for 46 years. The fascinating, implausible life of...
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Anchee Min, Author . Houghton Mifflin $25 (308p) ISBN 978-0-618-53146-2
Min's Empress Orchid
tracked the concubine Orchid's path to becoming Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi; this revisionist look at her long years behind her son Tung Chih's throne (1863–1908) won't disappoint Orchid's fans. Recounted...
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Anchee Min, Author . Bloomsbury $24 (278p) ISBN 978-1-59691-697-5
As a girl in Maoist China, Min (Red Azalea
) was ordered to denounce Pearl S. Buck; now she offers a thin sketch of the Nobel laureate’s life from the point of view of fictional Willow Yee, a fiercely loyal friend. A lifelong friendship begins
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Anchee Min, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-618-00407-2
Historical fiction acquires new luster and credibility in Min's brilliant evocation of the woman who married Mao and fought to succeed him. As she proved in her memoir, Red Azalea, Min is a forceful writer, but her first novel, Katherine, did not...
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Anchee Min, Author Riverhead Books $22.95 (241p) ISBN 978-1-57322-005-7
Min's first novel is less successful on a number of fronts than her outstanding memoir, Red Azalea. Narrated by a 29-year-old Chinese woman named Zebra whose family is poor and disgraced in the eyes of the Party, the story line traces the upheavals...
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Anchee Min. Bloomsbury, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59691-698-2
In her excoriating examination of the legacy of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, novelist Min (Pearl of China, etc.) offers a sharp, moving contrast between American and Chinese attitudes about human worth and dignity. Raised in Shanghai in a...
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