New York: St Martin's, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's unusual first novel, a first-person novel written in the voice of Chai, a former Red Guard from Northeastern China who fled his country by swimming to Hong Kong, eventually making his way to the United States, and now living a version of the immigrant's dream, married to the sensible Ding and with one child. He has developed an obsession for the maxims of Calvin Coolidge, whose American frugality contrasts, in his mind, with the corruption of the Chinese Communist leaders. SIGNED on the title page. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-312140444.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1957). Hardcover first edition - An account of the author's travels in Indo-China [Vietnam], Cambodia, Laos, Siam, Burma, Malaya and Indonesia in the period right after the collapsing of the colonial powers and of newly independent states. The "dragon" casting its shadow is Communist China. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Translated from the German by Mervyn Savill. Publisher's black tape on copyright page. 288 pp.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (1999). A memoir of a woman "trained as an elite soldier in the Chinese army, her forbidden love for an American, and her seemingly impossible escape - with his help - from the nation to which she had pledged her life. . . a compelling look at life inside the rigid walls of Communist China." 349 pp. ISBN: 0-471390194.