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The Woman Who Could Not Forget

By: Ying-Ying Chang

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The Woman Who Could Not Forget

By: Ying-Ying Chang

The poignant story of the life and death of world-famous author and historian Iris Chang, as told by her mother. Iris Chang's bestselling book, The Rape of Nanking, forever changed the way we view the Second World War in Asia. It all began with a photo of a river choked with the bodies of hundreds of Chinese civilians that shook Iris to her core. Who were these people? Why had this happened and how could their story have been lost to history? She could not shake that image from her head. She could not forget what she had seen. A few short years later, Chang revealed this "second Holocaust" to the world. The Japanese atrocities against the people of Nanking were so extreme that a Nazi party leader based in China actually petitioned Hitler to ask the Japanese government to stop the massacre. But who was this woman that single-handedly swept away years of silence, secrecy and shame? Her mother, Ying-Ying, provides an enlightened and nuanced look at her daughter, from Iris' home-made childhood newspaper, to her early years as a journalist and later, as a promising young historian, her struggles with her son's autism and her tragic suicide. The Woman Who Could Not Forget cements Iris' legacy as one of the most extraordinary minds of her generation and reveals the depth and beauty of the bond between a mother and daughter.

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522

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Simon and Schuster

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1605986658

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9781605986654

Growing Up under a Red Flag

A Memoir of Surviving the Chinese Cultural Revolution

By: Ying Chang Compestine

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Growing Up under a Red Flag

A Memoir of Surviving the Chinese Cultural Revolution

By: Ying Chang Compestine

A stirring and magnificently illustrated picture-book memoir of the author’s childhood during the Chinese Cultural Revolution Ying Chang Compestine was a young girl in 1966 when Mao launched his Cultural Revolution to reclaim power and eliminate non-communist values in the country. His army began punishing and arresting people who didn’t agree with him, foreign reading material was banned, and children were all required to dress in uniform and carry the Little Red Book of Mao’s teachings. It was a time of fear, mayhem, and scarcity that lasted until Mao’s death ten years later, when Ying was thirteen. Through those ten harrowing years, Ying’s parents found ways to secretly educate her and allow her dreams of visiting America to stay vibrant. Now she brings her childhood story and China’s history to life in this absorbing and beautiful picture book.

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Penguin

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0593533984

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9780593533987

The Story of Paper

By: Ying Chang Compestine

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The Story of Paper

By: Ying Chang Compestine

After the Kang brothers get in trouble at school, they devise a way to make paper, which will make things easier for both their teacher and themselves, in a tale that includes a historical note and a recipe for home-made paper.

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0823417050

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9780823417056

Revolution is not a Dinner Party

By: Ying Chang Compestine

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Revolution is not a Dinner Party

By: Ying Chang Compestine

The summer of 1972, before I turned nine, danger began knocking on doors all over China. Ling lives a comfortable life with her parents in Wuhan. But when Comrade Li, one of Mao's political officers, moves into a room in their apartment, things begin to change for the worse. Ling's secure, happy world gradually beings to fall apart and Ling fears for the safety of her neighbours, and soon for herself and her family. A powereful story, told with hope and humour, of a girl growing up and fighting to survive during the Cultural Revolution.

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153

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Penguin Group Australia

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1742282296

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9781742282299

Little Red Riding Hood and the Dragon

By: Ying Chang Compestine

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Little Red Riding Hood and the Dragon

By: Ying Chang Compestine

Award-winning author Ying Compestine reimagines the classic fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood" from a Chinese perspective By now, you have probably heard the old folk tale about a girl in a red cape. The truth is that the story took place here in China, there wasn’t a woodsman, and I, the gentle wolf, certainly was not the one who ate them. Here is the real story. This is not the story you think you know. In this version of the classic fairy tale, Little Red lives in a village near the Great Wall and trains in kung fu. When she ventures to her grandmother’s to deliver rice cakes and herbal medicine, she encounters something much more fearsome than a wolf—a mighty dragon. With her wits and a sword in hand, Little Red must valiantly defend herself and her grandmother in this vibrant retelling from Ying Chang Compestine and Joy Ang. An author’s note discusses how this reimagining is influenced by Chinese mythology, symbolism, traditional medicine, and other elements of Compestine’s heritage.

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Abrams

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1683355695

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9781683355694

Book's by Ying-Ying Chang

The Woman Who Could Not Forget

The Woman Who Could Not Forget

Growing Up under a Red Flag

Growing Up under a Red Flag

The Story of Paper

The Story of Paper

Revolution is not a Dinner Party

Revolution is not a Dinner Party

Little Red Riding Hood and the Dragon

Little Red Riding Hood and the Dragon

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