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Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

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  Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang

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  Mesmerising and enormously powerful, this is Jung Chang and Jon Halliday's intricately researched, uniquely revealing biography of Chairman Mao and his tyrannical dictatorship.

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  China: A History by John Keay

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  Ambitious, well-written, occasionally humorous account of the complex, turbulent years of Chinese history between 200BC and the start of the 20th century.

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  River Town by Peter Hessler

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  In 1996, Peter Hessler spent two years teaching in a rural town by the Yangtze River. Here, with humble, elegant and insightful prose he captures the occasionally inscrutable spirit of both the country and its people.

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  Falling Leaves Return to their Roots by Adeline Yen Mah

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  A childhood memoir of growing up as the 'Fifth Younger Daughter' in civil war ravaged China. Set against an evocative, historical backdrop, Mah describes a heart-breaking familial dynamic where she must battle rejection and physical and mental abuse. A wonderful, moving book that tells of tragedy, hardship and a small burning flame of hope.

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  Wild Swans by Jung Chang

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  The turbulent history of 20th century China told through the stories of three generations of women: a Concubine with bound feet, her Communist daughter and her rebellious granddaughter. This is the perfect introduction to Chinese history by being framed in a grippingly tense, incredibly moving story that gets right inside your head. Winner of the British Book of the Year Award.

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  The Penguin History of Modern China by Jonathan Fenby

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  Comprehensive, authoritative, well-written history of China from 1850 up to 2009.

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  Red Dust by Ma Jian

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  Under close surveillance for being dangerously artistic, Ma Jian left his rather messy life behind and went travelling for three years through China to Tibet. Elegant, powerful and insightful account from a man who is both part of what he describes and alienated from it.

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  The Great Wall by Julia Lovell

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  Julia Lovell's fascinating appraisal of China's relationship with the rest of the world through the 2,200 year history of the Great Wall. Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.

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  1434 by Gavin Menzies

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  An interesting but certainly controversial book from Gavin Menzies who argues that it was the Chinese who sparked the European Renaissance following a visit to the Pope in 1434.