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Par Irène Frain, Jetsun Pema. 2002
Écrit sous forme de dialogue entre deux femmes de culture différente, cet ouvrage commun nous donne le loisir de voir…
la situation tibétaine d'un point de vue féminin. Depuis l'invasion chinoise en 1950, plusieurs générations d'enfants sont nés en exil en Inde, leur principal pays d'accueil. Fonctionnant comme une sorte de rétrospective sur ces longues années de survie, le recueil évoque la vie dans les camps de réfugiés transformés en villages. Jetsun Pema, soeur du Dalaï-Lama, raconte comment l'éducation des enfants s'est réorganisée, en tenant compte de la préservation de la langue, de la religion et des valeurs traditionnelles, sans pour autant se couper du monde moderne. 2002Par Xinran, Prune Cornet. 2010
" Mémoire de Chine est la confession d'une génération dont l'histoire n'a jamais été racontée. Grands-parents et arrière-grands-parents décrivent avec…
leurs propres mots - pour la première et peut-être la dernière fois - les transformations qui ont définitivement changé la Chine au cours du siècle passé. Ce livre est à la fois un voyage à travers le temps et l'espace, et un mémorial dressé à ceux qui ont vécu guerres, insurrections, persécution, invasions, révolutions, famines, modernisation, occidentalisation, et qui ont survécu pour entrer dans le XXIe siècle. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Zhongguo min zu zi zun de jian zheng zhe men.Par Ella Maillart. 1989
En janvier 1935, Ella Maillart quitte Pékin pour traverser la Chine d'est en ouest, atteindre les oasis " interdites "…
du Sin-Kiang et, de là, gagner le Cachemire. Ella Maillart est l'une des voyageuses les plus étonnantes de ce siècle, et la qualité de son regard sur les choses ne cesse de nous émerveiller. 1989.The author, familiar with the language, politics, and culture of the most populous country in the world, gives his account…
of China harking back to Mao's "Liberation." Terrill focuses on the Chinese version of Communist ideology with its Leninist slant and the Chinese penchant for conformity, both of which he believes hamper the pro-democratic movement. 1992.Par Albert Habib Hourani. 1991
Par Catherine Bergman. 2001
Par Edwin O Reischauer. 1973
Par William Shawcross, Françoise Bonnet. 1979
L'histoire d'un petit pays transforme en un vaste champ de bataille sanglant et témoin muet de l'affrontement d'une démocratie corrompue…
et du marxisme le plus totalitaire. C'est l'histoire vraie du Cambodge depuis l'invasion Américaine de 1970 jusqu'à l'occupation Vietnamienne actuelle. Descriptions régulières de violence. 1979. Titre uniforme: Sideshow.Biography of British biochemist Joseph Needham (1900-1995) discusses his intellectual development, marriage, and long-standing love affair with a visiting Chinese…
student. Features his travels to China and his investigations into the history of Chinese inventions and technology, including the compass, explosives, and suspension bridges. 2008.Par Suyin Han. 1965
Par Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Sue Wiles. 1999
The Long March of 1934-5 is the central event in modern Chinese history. Virtually all of China's later Communist leaders…
took part, and the March has been the subject of many books and films. Most of what has already been written on the Long March is about the men: figures such as Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping. This is the story of the women who took part in the Long March, seen through the biographies of three key players. Lee and Wiles trace the women's stories in three time periods: the Long March itself, a decade later at liberation and then forty years later. Drawing on interviews and published and unpublished sources, it is a moving account of a little understood group of women. 1999.Par Sterling Seagrave, Peggy Seagrave. 1999
Authors of "The Marcos Dynasty" and "The Soong Dynasty" scrutinize Japan's royal family, gauge the extent of their complicity in…
World War II, and investigate alleged postwar collusion with General Douglas MacArthur in rebuilding the country. The Seagraves claim many Japanese business and political leaders are embroiled in corruption. 1999.Par France-Marie Watkins, Martine Leroy-Battistelli, Bette Lord. 1990
Par Edward Behr. 1987
Pu Yi, the last Emperor of China, ascended the throne in 1908 at the age of 3. From a charmed…
existence in the Forbidden City, he was swept into the political intrigues of Asia and became the despised figurehead of Japan's Manchurian regime. 1987.Par Bob Gibbons, Bob Ashford. 1983
Par Ange Zhang. 2004
In 1966, Zhang was a teen in Beijing when Mao Zedong began the Cultural Revolution. Though he was the son…
of a "bad guy" (a famous writer), he became swept up in the revolution, until the violence and his father's arrest made him question its goals. In 1968 was sent to a small village to learn how to farm, where he discovered his true calling - art. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 2-4 and older readers. 2004.Par Anthony Burgess. 1959
Burgess dissects the racial and social prejudices of post-war Malaya during the chaotic upheaval of independence. Through a succession of…
colourful characters he delineates the conflict and confusion arising from the enforced mingling of cultures.Par Aung San Suu Kyi. 1996
Since 1995, Aung San Suu Kyi has been writing a column in a Japanese newspaper in which she gives her…
impressions of the political, cultural and social scene in Burma today. Subjects range from what the Burmese have for breakfast, through a description of her first visit after release from house arrest to a national shrine, to overt political pieces on the repression in the country.Par Evan Osnos. 2014
Age of Ambition describes some of the billion individual lives that make up China’s story. It is a story that…
unfolds on remote farms, in glittering mansions, and in the halls of power of the world’s largest authoritarian regime. In a nation riven by contradictions the defining clash taking place today is between the individual and the Communist Party’s struggle to retain control. Here is a China infused with a sense of boundless possibility and teeming romance. National Book Award in Non-Fiction 2014.Par Meenal Shrivastava. 2018
As a precocious young girl, Surekha knew very little about the details of her mother Amma’s unusual past and that…
of Babu, her mysterious and sometimes absent father. The tense, uncertain family life created by her parents’ distant and fractious marriage and their separate ambitions informs her every action and emotion. Then one evening, in a moment of uncharacteristic transparency and vulnerability, Amma tells Surekha and her older sister Didi of the family tragedy that changed the course of her life. Finally, the daughters begin to understand the source of their mother’s deep commitment to the Indian nationalist movement and her seemingly unending willingness to sacrifice in the name of that pursuit. In this re-memory based on the published and unpublished work of Amma and Surekha, Meenal Shrivastava, Surekha’s daughter, uncovers the history of the female foot soldiers of Gandhi’s national movement in the early twentieth century. As Meenal weaves these written accounts together with archival research and family history, she gives voice and honour to the hundreds of thousands of largely forgotten or unacknowledged women who, threatened with imprisonment for treason and sedition, relentlessly and selflessly gave toward the revolution.