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A living history of China told through the story of one remarkable family

About the Author

Frank Ching was educated at Columbia University in New York, then worked as a journalist for the New York Times before setting up the Wall Street Journal's first bureau in Beijing in 1979. Later, after nine years on the Far Eastern Economic Review he moved to the South China Morning Post as Senior Columnist. For twelve years, he hosted the weekly current affairs tv programme 'Newsline' on the World channel of Asia Television. He lives in Hong Kong.

Reviews

A stunning accomplishment...Frank Ching brings to life the last nine centuries of Chinese history and culture as almost no other work in the English language has done
*New York Times*

[An] extraordinary quest through 900 dramatic years of ancestral history
*Jonathan Mirsky*

Not only a fascinating account of an extraordinary family...but provides a vivid picture of nearly a thousand years of history.
*John Gittings, author of The Changing Face of China*

Fascinating...The story of China's survival
*Wall Street Journal*

Almost a millennium of Chinese history, reduced to a human scale
*London Review of Books*