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Life of a genius

Su Dongpo
2015
An illustrated biography of Su Dongpo, Chinese poet, civil engineer, and statesman, whose appreciation for nature and justice were evident in his works and led him to experience both triumph and adversity in eleventh-century China.

Return to Dragon Mountain

memories of a late Ming man
2007

A woman soldier's own story

the autobiography of Xie Bingying
2001

Six records of a floating life

1983
Presents an English translation of the 1809 memoirs of Shen Fu in which he discusses his life in China as a magistrate's secretary, a loving husband, a painter, and a tradesman.

Daughter of the river

1998
Hong Ying chronicles her life in China and discusses how she survived the Great Famine of the early 1960s, how she struggled to uncover the secrets her family kept hidden from her, how she fought against the Chinese government, and other related topics.

Su Dongpo

Chinese genius
2006
An illustrated biography of Su Dongpo, Chinese poet, civil engineer, and statesman, whose appreciation for nature and justice were evident in his works and led him to experience both triumph and adversity in eleventh-century China.
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