An erotic story of Imperial China from the author of "Red Azalea" and "Becoming Madame Mao".

Narrated by Maple, a less than passionate Maoist whose father is imprisoned for a minor crime, a powerful story of desire during the time of the Cultural Revolution follows Wild Ginger, who, due to tragic circumstances, embraces Maoism and soon becomes a national model for Maoism, which prohibits ro[...]

To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine she enters the erotically charged and ritualised Forbidden City. But beneath its immaculate fa'? ade [...]

A powerful memoir of growing up in Communist China during Mao's ascendancy chronicles a time when individuality was ruthlessly crushed, the good of the state was supreme, and love could be a capital crime. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.[...]

It is the end of the nineteenth century and China is riding on the crest of great change, but for nine-year-old Willow, the only child of a destitute family in the small southern town of Chin-kiang, nothing ever seems to change. Until the day she meets Pearl, the eldest daughter of a zealous America[...]

This is a selection of colorful propaganda artworks and cultural artifacts from photographer Michael Wolf's vast collection of Chinese propaganda posters. With his smooth, warm, red face which radiated light in all directions, Chairman Mao Zedong was a fixture in Chinese propaganda posters produced [...]

En storslagen roman om passion, svek och maktkamp.

Den unga kvinnan Orkidé kommer till Förbjudna staden 1851, under Qingdynastins sista skälvande år, för att bli en av kejsarens konkubiner. Hon inser snabbt att om hon ska lyckas göra något av sitt liv så gäller det att ta lyckan[...]