A Mortal Flower Author:Han Suyin The vivid story of China, told by Asia's most famous writer. — Han Suyin grew to womanhood as her country, China, plunged through revolution, counter-revolution and foreign invasion. With extraordinary vividness and striking personal detail, she describes the massive sweep of human events across East and West - Chiang Kai-Shek's bloody climb to ... more »power...the horrific Japanese invasion...Mao Tse Tung in his guerrilla mountain fastness and the stupendous epic of the Long March...the rice of Fascism in Europe.
Here is an unequaled picture of a great nation in violent turmoil, depicted by a world-famous bestselling author who lives through the epoch-making events she so brilliantly describes.« less