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.
New York: Ballantine, (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel (third book) - in the story "Mei Xiang, who leaves her impoverished village to become part of Chairman MaoÕs dance troupe, or so she realizes once she arrives at the Forbidden Palace. With her cunning patriotism, Mei quickly becomes the 72-year-old ChairmanÕs lover, confidante and protegee, [Hua is also telling] the stories of the women who fought, sacrificed and endured during ChinaÕs Cultural Revolution, women who answered the call to serve their country Ñ mind, body and soul Ñ but whose truths were either distorted for propaganda or entirely excised from history." (Washington Post) Author's note on the years she spent researching this novel. 355 pp. ISBN: 978-0399178818.
New York: Pantheon, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first book, a highly praised and very moving memoir of growing up during China's Cultural Revolution - first on a communal farm, and as a star of the Chinese film industry. SIGNED on the title page. A NY Times Notable book of the year. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-679-42332x.
GIRL UNDER A RED MOON.
GIRL UNDER A RED MOON.
FORBIDDEN CITY.
RED AZALEA: Life and Love in China
