Once upon a time, almost a century ago, two sisters from an illustrious Chinese family lived in a lush estate known as the Flower Fragrant Garden, in China’s southeast coastal city of Fuzhou. Then ...

One evening in 1970, a woman named Fang Zhongmou reached the end of her patience with the Cultural Revolution. She had put up with the torture and beating of her husband by adolescent Red Guards for ...

Lafayette author Ying Chang Compestine understands that China’s Cultural Revolution might not be an obvious topic for an illustrated children’s book. But Compestine isn’t the first writer to use a ...

In “Red Dawn Over China,” the historian Frank Dikötter shows that Communism’s rise in China was an unlikely, violent event with a lot of outside help. By Gary J. Bass Gary J. Bass, the William P.

Dikotter is prolific and has written many other books on China, but this set consists, in the chronological order of their publication, of the following: Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s ...