New York: Scholastic, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A story written for children, which tells of his "resolute older sister and their childhood growing up together during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. In a small village called Yellow Stone, in southeastern China, Sisi is a model sister, daughter, and student.. . But when students are selected during a school ceremony to join the prestigious Red Guard, Sisi is passed over. Worse, she is shamed for her family's past - they are former landowners who have no place in the new Communist order. Her only escape is to find work at another school, bringing Da along with her. But the siblings find new threats in Bridge Town, too, and…
New York: Scholastic, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A story written for children, which tells of his "resolute older sister and their childhood growing up together during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. In a small village called Yellow Stone, in southeastern China, Sisi is a model sister, daughter, and student.. . But when students are selected during a school ceremony to join the prestigious Red Guard, Sisi is passed over. Worse, she is shamed for her family's past - they are former landowners who have no place in the new Communist order. Her only escape is to find work at another school, bringing Da along with her. But the siblings find new threats in Bridge Town, too, and Sisi will face choices between family and nation, between safety and justice." SIGNED on the front endpaper (this was published just a few months before his death - at just 59 - in December). Illustrated. Includes a note about the Cultural Revolution and photographs. 197 pp. ISBN: 978-1338263862.
New York: Scholastic, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A story written for children, which tells of his "resolute older sister and their childhood growing up together during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. In a small village called Yellow Stone, in southeastern China, Sisi is a model sister, daughter, and student.. . But when students are selected during a school ceremony to join the prestigious Red Guard, Sisi is passed over. Worse, she is shamed for her family's past - they are former landowners who have no place in the new Communist order. Her only escape is to find work at another school, bringing Da along with her. But the siblings find new threats in Bridge Town, too, and…
New York: Scholastic, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A story written for children, which tells of his "resolute older sister and their childhood growing up together during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. In a small village called Yellow Stone, in southeastern China, Sisi is a model sister, daughter, and student.. . But when students are selected during a school ceremony to join the prestigious Red Guard, Sisi is passed over. Worse, she is shamed for her family's past - they are former landowners who have no place in the new Communist order. Her only escape is to find work at another school, bringing Da along with her. But the siblings find new threats in Bridge Town, too, and Sisi will face choices between family and nation, between safety and justice." SIGNED with his chop mark and calligraphic Chinese characters on the front endpaper (this was published just a few months before his death - at just 59 - in December). Illustrated. Includes a note about the Cultural Revolution and photographs. 197 pp. ISBN: 978-1338263862.