{"product_id":"9780615810447","title":"The Woman Who Lost China","description":"\"The new, must read China book. Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang knows China and writes with insight and passion.\"-Daria Berg, Professor of Chinese Culture and Society University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.\u003cp\u003eIt is 1949 and the Chinese Republic is collapsing under Mao Tse Tung's communist onslaught.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eManying, distressed and frightened and unsure of the fate of her soldier husband, must flee Nanjing with her baby. With the help of her beloved childhood sweetheart, she finds a place on the last train leaving the city and endures a horrifying journey to Hong Kong where she is taken in by her brother and sister-in law. Grief-stricken and destitute, she struggles to make sense of the world in which she now finds herself. As she recalls the cruel fate of her uncle at a provincial court half a century earlier and all that has been lost, she makes a discovery: the past shapes the present. Fate, however, has yet more in store for her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLove, war, sacrifice, corruption and revenge all play their part in this epic story that reaches its climax in twenty-first century Shanghai.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013357355248,"sku":"9780615810447","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780615810447_p0.jpg?v=1763600491","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780615810447","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}