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Becoming Madame Maoby Anchee MinISBN 0618127003 (0-618-12700-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Becoming Madame Mao'Book summary:Many writers have engaged in the project of rescuing female figures from history, but few have tackled such an unsympathetic character as Anchee Min does in her historical novel Becoming Madame Mao. Known as the White Boned Demon during her reign of terror in China, Madame Mao was blamed for countless bloody and vengeful executions; she sought out those who had wronged her in the past and wiped them off the face of the earth. Eventually she was reviled in China and executed, even as her husband was revered as a hero.
Before her stint as Mao's first lady, Jiang Ching, as she was then known, was an actress, a singer, and a star in Communist films. Anchee Min grew up in Red China and watched Jiang Ching from afar; she was fascinated by her for many years, by tales of her independence and strength, and by images of her beauty. In a way, the great villain and demon was a role model for Anchee Min, and her teenage devotion is the engine of her remarkable novel. Moving back and forth between stories of the actress and the evil dictator, Min complicates the Madame Mao of history.
As a girl, Madame Mao narrowly escaped having her feet bound. The book opens with graphic descriptions of this process and of the ensuing infection that freed her. But if her feet were not bound, her spirit was. Reared by a mother who was the last concubine of a rich man, and a father who liked to hit his girls with shovels, Madame Mao as a young girl felt herself doomed: "I see my father hit Mother with a shovel. It happened suddenly. Without warning. I can hardly believe my eyes. He is mad. He calls Mother a slut. Mother's body curls up. My chest swells. He hits her back, front, shouting that he will break her bones." The father then goes on to treat his daughter the same way. Decades later, when Madame Mao manifests deep brutality, Min seems to be saying that what goes around comes around. Flawed by a clumsy structure that vacillates between third and first person arbitrarily, Becoming Madame Mao is nevertheless an immensely interesting work--defiant, morally ambiguous, and difficult to put down. --Emily White [via]
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Empress Orchidby Anchee MinISBN 0618562036 (0-618-56203-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empress Orchid'Book summary:From a master of the historical novel, empress orchid sweeps readers into the heart of the forbidden city to tell the fascinating story of a young concubine who becomes china's last empress. Min introduces the beautiful tzu hsi, known as orchid, and weaves an epic of a country girl who seized power through seduction, murder, and endless intrigue. When china is threatened by enemies, she alone seems capable of holding the country together. In this "absorbing companion piece to her novel becoming madame mao" (new york times), readers and reading groups will once again be transported by min's lavish evocation of the forbidden city in its last days of imperial glory and by her brilliant portrait of a flawed yet utterly compelling woman who survived, and ultimately dominated, a male world [via]
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- Empress Orchid: ISBN 0747566984 (0-7475-6698-4)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Empress Orchid: ISBN 0747568332 (0-7475-6833-2)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Empress Orchid: ISBN 0618068872 (0-618-06887-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Empress Orchid: ISBN 0618562036 (0-618-56203-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
- Empress Orchid: ISBN 0747566984 (0-7475-6698-4)
Katherineby Anchee MinISBN 0241135419 (0-241-13541-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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- Katherine: ISBN 0140248668 (0-14-024866-8)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Katherine: ISBN 042515291X (0-425-15291-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Katherine: ISBN 0425180239 (0-425-18023-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Katherine: ISBN 0241135419 (0-241-13541-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited
- Katherine: ISBN 0140248668 (0-14-024866-8)
The Last Empressby Anchee MinISBN 0547053703 (0-547-05370-3)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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Red Azaleaby Anchee MinISBN 0575400102 (0-575-40010-2)
Softcover, Indigo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Azalea'Book summary:This New York Times Notable Book tells the true story of what it was like growing up in Mao's China, where the soul was secondary to the state, beauty was mistrusted, and love could be punishable by death. Newsweek calls Anchee Min's prose "as delicate and evocative as a traditional Chinese brush painting." [via]
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Red Azalea : Life and Love in Chinaby Anchee MinISBN 0575055294 (0-575-05529-4)
Hardcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Wild Ginger : A Novelby Anchee MinISBN 0618380434 (0-618-38043-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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- Wild Ginger : A Novel: ISBN 0704347466 (0-7043-4746-6)
Softcover, Women's Press, Limited, The - Wild Ginger : A Novel: ISBN 070434792X (0-7043-4792-X)
Softcover, Women's Press, Limited, The - Wild Ginger: A Novel: ISBN 0618068864 (0-618-06886-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company - Wild Ginger: ISBN 0618380434 (0-618-38043-4)
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- Wild Ginger : A Novel: ISBN 0704347466 (0-7043-4746-6)
Spanish
La Ciudad Prohibida / Forbidden Cityby Anchee Min , Teresa CamprodonISBN 0307273768 (0-307-27376-8)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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