{"product_id":"love-and-famine-han-ping-chin-9781941861455","title":"Love and Famine","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 9th-grader, Dapeng Liu, greets the 1949 communist victory in China with awe and confusion. While trying to shed old traditions and fit into the revolution, he's constantly caught between incomprehensible reality and his conscience. Amid his struggles with shifting political dictates, academic and financial adversity, purges, a broken marriage, and loneliness, he learns to swim in the stormy sea of Mao's first decades in power. As his professional achievement and ideological remolding win Party favor, he quietly maps a path to a brighter future and his lost love. One of the readers dubbed it \"The Chinese Dr. Zhivago.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis coming of age story set in China from 1949-1965 during the Mao Zedong Era portrays a fate inextricably intertwined with the way Chinese people lived during the formative stage of modern China. Han-ping Chin's historical autobiography fills the niche left by Ha Jin, winner of the National Book Award, and other modern Chinese writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Both epic and personal, this novel chronicles two decades of love, loss, history, and culture--and the complex tensions that arise from these forces--during the turbulent Mao era.\" --Kirkus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Han-Ping Chin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1941861458\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781941861455\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard Square Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.23d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2017","brand":"Han-Ping Chin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937735475455,"sku":"9781941861455","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_41f2009f-9b9d-4bc2-9a57-c38e96f533e5.jpg?v=1681431719","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/love-and-famine-han-ping-chin-9781941861455","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}