China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran Xinran (Author)

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China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran Xinran (Author)ISBN: 9780099501480 Publisher : Vintage Books, October 13, 2009 Hardcover, 448 pages This hugely important and ground breaking book an unprecedented oral history gives voice to a silent generation and tells the secret history of 20th century China. In 1912, five thousand years of feudal rule ended in China. Warlords, Western businessmen, soldiers, missionaries and Japanese all ruled China, exploited and fought one another and the Chinese. In 1949, Mao

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