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China Witness

Voices from a Silent Generation

by Xinran ...

China Witness is a remarkable work of oral history that lets us see the cultural upheavals of the past century through the eyes of the Chinese who lived through them.Xinran, acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, traveled across China seeking out the nation’s grandparents and great-grandparents, the men and women who experienced firsthand the tremendous changes of the modern era. Although ... Read more

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China Witness is a remarkable work of oral history that lets us see the cultural upheavals of the past century through the eyes of the Chinese who lived through them.Xinran, acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, traveled across China seeking out the nation’s grandparents and great-grandparents, the men and women who experienced firsthand the tremendous changes of the modern era. Although
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The Good Women of China

Hidden Voices

by Xinran ...

When Deng Xiaoping’s efforts to “open up” China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long wanted to help improve the lives of Chinese women. But when she was given clearance to host a radio call-in show, she barely anticipated the enthusiasm it would quickly generate. Operating within the constraints imposed by ... Read more

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When Deng Xiaoping’s efforts to “open up” China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long wanted to help improve the lives of Chinese women. But when she was given clearance to host a radio call-in show, she barely anticipated the enthusiasm it would quickly generate. Operating within the constraints imposed by
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Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother

Stories of Loss and Love

by Xinran ...

Following her internationally bestselling book The Good Women of China, Xinran has written one of the most powerful accounts of the lives of Chinese women. Her searing stories of mothers who have been driven to abandon their daughters or give them up for adoption is a masterful and significant work of literary reportage and oral history.Xinran has gained entrance to the most pained, secret ... Read more

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Following her internationally bestselling book The Good Women of China, Xinran has written one of the most powerful accounts of the lives of Chinese women. Her searing stories of mothers who have been driven to abandon their daughters or give them up for adoption is a masterful and significant work of literary reportage and oral history.Xinran has gained entrance to the most pained, secret
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Sky Burial

An Epic Love Story of Tibet

by Xinran ...

It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the internationally acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet a woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China.Xinran made the trip and met the woman, called Shu Wen, who recounted the story of her thirty-year odyssey in the vast landscape of Tibet. In Sky Burial, Xinran has ... Read more

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It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the internationally acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet a woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China.Xinran made the trip and met the woman, called Shu Wen, who recounted the story of her thirty-year odyssey in the vast landscape of Tibet. In Sky Burial, Xinran has
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The Good Women of China

Hidden Voices

by Xinran ...

Narrated by Cindy Kay ...

Unabridged

8 hours 37 min

An unprecedented, intimate account of the lives of modern Chinese women, told by the women themselves—true stories of the political and personal upheavals they have endured in their chaotic and repressive societyFor eight groundbreaking years, Xinran hosted a radio program in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast every evening, Words on the Night ... Read more

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An unprecedented, intimate account of the lives of modern Chinese women, told by the women themselves—true stories of the political and personal upheavals they have endured in their chaotic and repressive societyFor eight groundbreaking years, Xinran hosted a radio program in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast every evening, Words on the Night
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China Computational Art

First CCF Conference, CCAC 2025, Jinan, China, September 23–25, 2025, Proceedings

Edited by Xiaobing Li, Kejun Zhang, Yun Wang, Yun Tie, Xinran Zhang, Qingwen Zhou ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First CCF Conference on China Computational Art, CCAC 2025, held in Jinan, China, during September 23–25, 2025.The 8 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions.They are grouped into the following topics: Survey in Computational Art; Computational Interactive Visual Art; Computatinal Music Art. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First CCF Conference on China Computational Art, CCAC 2025, held in Jinan, China, during September 23–25, 2025.The 8 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions.They are grouped into the following topics: Survey in Computational Art; Computational Interactive Visual Art; Computatinal Music Art.
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Family, Children, and Tourism in China

Edited by Mimi Li, Xinran Lehto ...

This edited volume explores various issues in family tourism studies and complements the dramatic development of this market segment in China. The book concentrates on family and children tourism, and through its chapters, hopes to enrich the landscape of family tourism in academia.The family market in tourism has received increasing attention over past decades. Yet academic endeavors in this area ... Read more

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This edited volume explores various issues in family tourism studies and complements the dramatic development of this market segment in China. The book concentrates on family and children tourism, and through its chapters, hopes to enrich the landscape of family tourism in academia.The family market in tourism has received increasing attention over past decades. Yet academic endeavors in this area
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The Promise

Love and Loss in Modern China

by Xinran Xue ...

Translated by William Spence ...

At the start of the twentieth century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born. While their future was arranged by their families, this couple had much to be grateful for. Not only did they come from similar backgrounds – and as such were recognized as a good match - they also had a shared passion in their deep love of ancient Chinese poetry. They went on ... Read more

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At the start of the twentieth century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born. While their future was arranged by their families, this couple had much to be grateful for. Not only did they come from similar backgrounds – and as such were recognized as a good match - they also had a shared passion in their deep love of ancient Chinese poetry. They went on
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Music Intelligence

Second Summit, SOMI 2023, Beijing, China, October 28–30, 2023, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Xiaobing Li, Xiaohong Guan, Yun Tie, Xinran Zhang, Qingwen Zhou ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Summit on Music Intelligence, SOMI 2023, held in Beijing, China, during October 28–30, 2023.The 10 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Music, Neural Science and Music Therapy, Multimodality in Music and Music Generation. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Summit on Music Intelligence, SOMI 2023, held in Beijing, China, during October 28–30, 2023.The 10 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Music, Neural Science and Music Therapy, Multimodality in Music and Music Generation.
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The Book of Secrets

A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China

by Xinran Xue ...

The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to today.Following the lives of military intelligence officer Jie and his wife Moon, The Book of Secrets weaves recently found material into a narrative that not only illuminates the shadowy world of intelligence in China, ... Read more

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The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to today.Following the lives of military intelligence officer Jie and his wife Moon, The Book of Secrets weaves recently found material into a narrative that not only illuminates the shadowy world of intelligence in China,
... Read more

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The Book of Secrets

A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China

by Xinran Xue ...

Narrated by Crystal Yu, Daniel York Loh ...

Unabridged

13 hours 3 min

Bloomsbury presents The Book of Secrets by Xinran Xue, read by Daniel York Loh and Crystal Yu.**‘An extraordinary firsthand account of Communist Party machinery at its most brutal and paranoid’ --**Sunday TelegraphPicked as Hilary Spurling's Book of the Year in The Spectator.The spellbinding story of the secret life of a spy in modern China, drawn from an extraordinary archive of p... ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents The Book of Secrets by Xinran Xue, read by Daniel York Loh and Crystal Yu.**‘An extraordinary firsthand account of Communist Party machinery at its most brutal and paranoid’ --**Sunday TelegraphPicked as Hilary Spurling's Book of the Year in The Spectator.The spellbinding story of the secret life of a spy in modern China, drawn from an extraordinary archive of p...
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The Promise

Love and Loss in Modern China

by Xinran Xue ...

Narrated by Jennifer Lim ...

Unabridged

10 hours 18 min

Bloomsbury presents The Promise by Xinran Xue, read by Jennifer Lim.A spellbinding and magical narrative, this is the story of modern China through the women who lived through it.At the start of the twentieth century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born. They went on to have nine children and chose colours portrayed in some of their favourite poems as ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents The Promise by Xinran Xue, read by Jennifer Lim.A spellbinding and magical narrative, this is the story of modern China through the women who lived through it.At the start of the twentieth century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born. They went on to have nine children and chose colours portrayed in some of their favourite poems as
... Read more

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