Genre :: China (6 books)

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  #154

  The Good Earth

  by Pearl S. Buck

  (7 Reviews)

  130 Points

  "It was Wang Lung's marriage day."

  

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  #206

  Man's Fate

  by Andre Malraux

  (1 Review)

  96 Points

  "Should he try to raise the mosquito-netting?"

  

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  #226

  Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

  by Jung Chang

  (4 Reviews)

  90 Points

  "At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national government of China."

  

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  #262

  Dream of the Red Chamber

  by Tsao Hsueh-Chin

  (1 Review)

  81 Points

  "When the Goddess Nugua undertook to repair the Dome of Heaven, she fashioned at the Great Mythical Mountain under the Nonesuch Bluff 36,501 pieces of stone, each 120 feet high and 240 feet around...."

  

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  #298

  Sea of Poppies

  by Amitav Ghosh

  (1 Review)

  72 Points

  "The vision of a tall-masted ship, at sail on the ocean, came to Deeti on an otherwise ordinary day, but she knew instantly that the apparition was a sign of destiny for she had never seen such a..."

  

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  #453

  The Joy Luck Club

  by Amy Tan

  (5 Reviews)

  36 Points

  "The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum."

  

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