epub |eng | | Author:Yang, Rae

15 Semi-transparent Nights If I could fall asleep in the middle of a street far away from home in 1966, how could I suffer from insomnia the next year when ...

epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:Bao Pu, Renee Chiang & Adi Ignatius

11 The Coastal Regions Take Off The early success of the reform program inspires Zhao to formulate a bolder strategy for developing the coast. The idea is to develop an ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2017-09-14 | Author:Tjio Kayloe

Homer Lea Lea became involved in Chinese affairs and joined the Baohuanghui while still at Stanford. In the summer of 1900, he dropped out of college and traveled to China, ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-08 | Author:Jonathan Fenby [JONATHAN FENBY]

* * * * Now known as Lugouqiao. PART IV BROKEN JADE Shanghai, August 1937 ——— Chungking, October 1944 CHAPTER 17 The Most Dreadful Nightmare ON SATURDAY, 14 AUGUST 1937, ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-11 | Author:Jonathan Fenby [Fenby, Jonathan]

PART IV BROKEN JADE Shanghai, August 1937 Chungking, October 1944 CHAPTER 17 The Most Dreadful Nightmare ON SATURDAY, 14 AUGUST 1937, as a typhoon blew through Shanghai picking up people ...

epub |eng | | Author:Tessa Keswick [Keswick, Tessa]

The band plays on in Shaxi’s Sideng market square; they produced an extraordinary wailing sound. After a while we wander off to explore. Down the side streets the sturdily built ...

epub |eng | 1945-12-31 | Author:Emily Hahn

Chick I HAD LIVED FOR YEARS next door to Jap-occupied areas of China, and I had read a vast amount of stuff about the Japanese secret service. My mind was ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Hing Ming Hung

Liu Hei Ta’s army attacked Mingshui County fiercely. There was a moat of fifty feet wide around the city wall. Liu Hei Ta ordered his soldiers to dig two tunnels ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-28 | Author:Jung Chang

* * * — Donald had come back to escort her there. In the plane, he pointed out Xian to her. Gazing at this square walled city in the embrace ...

epub |eng | | Author:Xu Hongci

15 No Way Home (1965–1966) On April 10, 1965, I had served my six-year sentence in full. But after pronouncing me officially “released,” Li Yuanlin informed me that I would ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-15 | Author:Chris Emmett [Emmett, Chris]

Chapter 7 Drumbeat During the first half of the twelfth century, in the reign of China’s Southern Soong emperors, a soldier born of tenant farmers rose to prominence. He became ...

epub |eng | 2009-11-15 | Author:Hannah Pakula [Pakula, Hannah]

IT CERTAINLY DID not take May-ling long to follow Willkie back to the United States. She had been vacillating about a trip to consult doctors about her health, and a ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-07 | Author:Smedley, Agnes;

Chapter 20 IT WAS mid-December before all the scattered units of the revolutionary army had assembled and reached the Shaokwan area in northern Kwangtung Province, some two to three days’ ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-20 | Author:Anne Behnke Kinney

8.11 THE MOTHER OF YAN YANNIAN [The mother of Yan Yannian] was the mother of the Governor of Henan, Yan Yannian of Donghai.58 She had given birth to five sons, ...

epub |eng | 2010-06-30 | Author:Barbara Tuchman [Tuchman, Barbara]

Another remarkable man, Dr. Gordon Seagrave, appeared at Maymyo at this time to offer his services. An American Baptist missionary surgeon of long experience in Burma, he was unorthodox, uncompromising, ...