A history of China during the last three centuries, from the time Western nations began to play an important part in Chinese affairs.

Set in the 1930's in war-torn China and inspired by true events. George Hogg, a young Englishman, leads sixty orphaned boys on an extraordinary journey of almost a thousand miles across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. During his journey, George learns to rely on the support of Chen, the leader of a Chinese partisan group who becomes his closest friend. He soon finds himself falling in love with...

A U.S. gunboat cruises China's Yangtze River in 1926, witnessing the awakening of a bloody revolution.

Examines China's role in the world in recent centuries to demonstrate how its past is shaping its future, explaining how Western influences have reinforced traditional Chinese mores while establishing potential partnerships.

"A Cornelia & Michael Bessie book."

Professor Richard Baum, University of California, Los Angeles, delivers 48 lectures on the history of China.