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Da Chen

Girl Under a Red Moon: Growing Up During China’s Cultural Revolution

By Da Chen - Published 2019

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Biographical Fiction Children/Young Adult

The author narrates this novel-like memoir depicting how, when he was a child, he and his conscientious older sister Sisi were forced to ...Read Review

My Last Empress

By Da Chen - Published 2012

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Literary Thriller

Samuel Pickens is a precocious young man at the beginning of this novel that spans life in Connecticut and China in the late 19...Read Review

Brothers

By Da Chen - Published 2006

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This elegantly written and gripping book provides stunning insight into the China of Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution. If your knowledge of Communist ...Read Review