China Witness : Voices from a Silent Generation
by Xinran
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0701180390
- ISBN 13
- 9780701180393
- Seller
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Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Chatto and Windus, 2008. - 435 pages, illustrated - 20th century Chinese Oral History - 'China Witness' is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told. Here the grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words for the first and perhaps the last time the vast changes that have overtaken China's people over a century - elaborate author's signature on the title page, dated 2009.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Xinran was born in Beijing in 1958 and was a successful journalist in China. In 1997 she moved to London where she began work on her seminal book, The Good Women of China . She has also written Sky Burial and a novel, Miss Chopsticks . From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Alphabet Bookshop (ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13509
- Title
- China Witness : Voices from a Silent Generation
- Author
- Xinran
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0701180390
- ISBN 13
- 9780701180393
- Publisher
- Chatto and Windus
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- Chinese Oral History 20th Century
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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