Thursday, February 16, 2012

Rona's recommended books and movies

Recommended books on China

Memoirs

Wild Swans by Jung Chang

Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin

Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World by Yang Erche Namu

Historical Fiction

To Live by Yu Hua

Chronicle of a Blood Merchant by Yu Hua

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Empress by Shan Sa

The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

The Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell

History

The Jews of Kaifeng, China: History, Culture, and Religion by Xu Xin

My China: Jewish life in the orient 1900-1950 by Yaacov Liberman

Mao: the unknown story by Jung Chang & John Halliday

Recommended Films:

(By Zhang Yimou)

  • Raise the Red Lantern 
  • To Live


Mao’s Last Dancer
Under the Hawthorne Tree

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