Khan, Sulmaan Wasif
Summary: "As tensions over Taiwan escalate, the United States and China stand on the brink of a catastrophic war. Resolving the impasse demands we understand how it began. In 1943, America declared that Japanese-held Taiwan would return to China at the conclusion of World War II. The Chinese civil war led to a change of plans. The Communist Party came to power in China and the defeated Nationalist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 951.249 KHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.249 KHAChung, Eve J.
Summary: "A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story. Daughters are the Ang family's curse. In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHUYou, Peiyun
Summary: "After his imprisonment in Green Island, Kun-lin struggles to pick up where he left off ten years earlier. He reconnects with his childhood crush Kimiko and finds work as an editor, jumping from publisher to publisher until finally settling at an advertising company. But when manhua publishing becomes victim to censorship, and many of his friends lose their jobs, Kun-lin takes matters into his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 YOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC YOUYou, Peiyun
Summary: For fans of Persepolis; An incredible true story in graphic novel form, that lays bare the tortured and triumphant history of Taiwan, an island claimed and fought over by many countries, through the life story of a man who lived through its most turbulent times. Tsai Kun-lin, an ordinary boy was born in Qingshui, Taichung in 1930s Taiwan. In part 1 Tsai, in concert with the beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC BOYLi, Zhuqing
Summary: "Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence. Scions of a once-great southern Chinese family that produced the tutor of the last emperor, Jun and Hong were each other's best friends until, in their twenties, they were separated by chance at the end of the Chinese Civil War. For the next thirty years, while one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc 2022