Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
By: Helen Zia
4.47
Format: 503 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the…
Want to Read $ 12.99"In a world fractured by turmoil, there's much to learn from the profound human experience shared by the uprooted and displaced."-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
"There are many lessons to be learned from refugees and migrants that can contribute to the understanding needed to navigate the global tectonics to bring people together, not drive them into flight."-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
"Certainly, what was true for the refugees and exiles of Shanghai remains true for people fleeing catastrophe in contemporary times. Whether these migrants are driven from Syria, Myanmar, Bosnia, Sudan, Somalia, Guatemala, or too many other places. These refugees have all faced the agonizing choice of whether to stay, or to flee."-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
"Where America's WWII generation is often lauded as its greatest, the Chinese contemporaries of that generation deny any claims to such superlatives. Especially when China's 5,000 year history spans hundreds of generations. Nevertheless, this particular demographic defined by exodus and liberation, possesses the greatness that they share with all who survived the savagery of war, social upheaval, violent extremism, and the desperate scramble to find safe haven anywhere."-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
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1. The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China
By: Julia Lovell
3.89
Format: 458 pages, Paperback
This title tells a story of drugs, distrust, greed and rebellion. 'On the outside, [the foreigners]… read more
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2. The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back
By: Charles Pellegrino
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on the voices of atomic-bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles… read more
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3. Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
By: Paul French
3.85
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Peking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumors and superst… read more
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4. Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World
By: Margaret MacMillan
3.89
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
With the publication of her landmark bestseller Paris 1919 , Margaret MacMillan was praised as “a s… read more
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5. Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind (P.S.)
By: Loung Ung
4.19
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, … read more
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6. Brazillionaires: Chasing Dreams of Wealth in an American Country
By: Alex Cuadros
3.82
Format: 224 pages, ebook
For readers of Michael Lewis comes a story of global financial inequality intertwined with the stor… read more
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7. Life and Death in Shanghai
By: Nien Cheng
4.16
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
In August 1966 a group of Red Guards ransacked the home of Nien Cheng. Her background made her an o… read more
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8. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
By: Peter Hessler
3.84
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
In the heart of China's Sichuan province lies the small city of Fuling. Surrounded by the terraced … read more
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9. Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
By: Frank Dikötter
3.51
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with t… read more
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10. The White Mouse
By: Nancy Wake
0.00
Format: None pages,
The Gestapo called her White Mouse. Nancy Wake, a New Zealander who became one of the most highly d… read more
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11. Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America
By: Jack Barsky , Cindy Coloma , None
4.24
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One decision can end everything . . . or lead to unlikely redemption. Millions watched the CBS 60 M… read more
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12. Eating Viet Nam: Dispatches from a Blue Plastic Table
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4.20
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
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13. Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen
By: Jane Draycott
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The first modern biography of one of the most influential yet long-neglected rulers of the ancient … read more
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14. Daughters of Shandong
By: Eve J. Chung
4.50
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An instant USA Today Bestseller! A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daught… read more
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15. The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
By: Jonathan Kaufman
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The Sassoons and the Kadoories--two Jewish families from Baghdad--had long been successful in busin… read more
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16. Korea: A New History of South and North
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4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day … read more
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3.76
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4.25
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19. China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
By: Frank Dikötter
3.94
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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21. Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
By: Helen Zia
4.47
Format: 503 pages, Hardcover
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22. When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
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4.59
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
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23. No Surrender: A Father, a Son, and an Extraordinary Act of Heroism That Continues to Live on Today
By: Christopher Edmonds
4.31
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4.19
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25. The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust
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4.03
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4.06
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"This may be the last stage of imperialism–having appropriated everything else from its colonies, the dead empire appropriates the pain of those it has oppressed."-Fintan O'Toole, Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
"[The] crucial idea here is the vertiginous fall from the 'heart of empire' to 'occupied colony'. In the imperial imagination, there are only two states: dominant and submissive, colonizer and coloniz…"-Fintan O'Toole, Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
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By: Sulmaan Wasif Khan
4.01
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29. The Art of Leaving
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30. Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
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4.30
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