The Phoenix Years: Art, resistance and the making of modern China

'Amidst all the chatter about China lies this rock of a book, a magnificent memoir/ history from the very core of modern Chinese society and history. It's a wonderful thing where the essential book and the delightful book are, as in this case, the one thing. Let no one speak of China who has not read The Phoenix Years.' Tom Keneally, author of Australians
The Phoenix Years tells the riveting story of China's rise from economic ruin to global giant in the four decades since the country starte...