Born in Shanghai in 1957, ANCHEE MIN has a personal connection to the story of Madame Mao. At seventeen, she was sent to a labour collective, where after a number of years a talent scout recruited her for Madame Mao's Shanghai Film Studio. Min emigrated to the United States in 1984 with help of the actress Joan Chen.
19 Ebooks by Anchee Min
Anchee Min: Becoming Madame Mao
From the author of the international bestseller Empress Orchid comes the stirring, erotically charged story of the woman known as 'the white-boned demon' – the ambitious wife of Chairman …
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€9.59
Anchee Min: Wild Ginger
Two girls come of age during the horrors of China’s Cultural Revolution in this novel by the national bestselling author of Empress Orchid. The young and beautiful Wild Ginger is only in …
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English
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€22.48
Min Anchee Min: Empress Orchid
‘Empress Orchid is strong on both sexual chicanery and violent conspiracy … fascinating’ GUARDIAN’An engrossing story … enhanced by Min’s imaginative power … Like all good novelists, she …
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English
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€13.02
Anchee Min: Sămânța încolțită
La douăzeci de ani după apariția primului roman inspirat din propria viață, Azaleea Roșie, în care zugrăvea în culori sumbre tribulațiile ei în timpul Revoluției culturale chineze, Anchee Min hotărăș …
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Romanian
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€9.14
Anchee Min: Becoming Madame Mao
From the national bestselling author of Red Azalea: “Extraordinary . . . Min lets [Madame Mao] be seen as never before. Bottom line: riveting” (People). In a …
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€24.98
Anchee Min: Empress Orchid
“A fascinating novel, similar to Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha . . . A revisionist portrait of a beautiful and strong-willed woman” (Houston Chronicle). …
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€22.52
Min Anchee Min: Pearl of China
In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, two young girls from very different worlds collide and become inseparable companions. Willow is hardened by poverty and fearful for her future; Pearl is the …
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English
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€8.00
Min Anchee Min: Last Empress
‘Vivid and entertaining … this is history as it plays upon the emotions. Empires crumble, hearts are broken’ THE TIMESFrom the bestselling author of Red Azalea comes the much-anticipated sequel to …
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English
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€17.01
Anchee Min: The Cooked Seed
”Full of sorrow and humour … extraordinary”
NEW YORK TIMES
”Reckless and thrilling …
Min outwits and outworks the Western system, and this book is part underdog thriller as she claws …
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€8.97
Min Anchee Min: Red Azalea
The acclaimed memoir from the bestselling author of Empress Orchid’Historically remarkable … intensely moving’ SUNDAY TIMES’The book sings. It is a small masterpiece’ VOGUEBorn into a devoutly …
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€9.97
Min Anchee Min: Cooked Seed
In 1994, Anchee Min made her literary debut with a memoir of growing up in China during the violent trauma of the Cultural Revolution. Red Azalea became an international bestseller and propelled her …
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English
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€18.92
Min Anchee Min: Pearl of China
It is the end of the nineteenth century and China is riding on the crest of great change, but for nine-year-old Willow, the only child of a destitute family in the small southern town of Chin-kiang, …
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English
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€12.99
Anchee Min: Parel van China
”Parel van China” vertelt het indrukwekkende verhaal van twee meisjes uit compleet verschillende families in China die niet zonder elkaar kunnen. Wilg groeit op in een arme familie op het …
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Dutch
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€11.22
Anchee Min: Wilde gember
Hoe werd de dochter van een verrader de nieuwe nationale held van de communistische partij? Wanneer de vader van Wilde Gember als verrader wordt beschouwd, neemt haar leven een tragische wending. …
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Dutch
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€8.73
Anchee Min: De laatste keizerin
De laatste keizerin van China, Orchidee, ging de boeken in als wreed en meedogenloos, maar schrijfster Anchee Min laat een andere kant van de sterke vrouw zien in deze prachtige historische roman. …
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Dutch
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€14.87
Anchee Min: Keizerin Orchidee
‘Als je een man was geweest, Orchidee, had je makkelijk China kunnen besturen, ‘ zei de keizer Hsien Feng van China tegen zijn vrouw. Orchidee was een normaal meisje van lage komaf, maar is door …
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Dutch
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€14.87
Anchee Min: Rode Azalea
Hoe is het om als jong meisje op te groeien in het communistische China? In ”Rode Azalea” vertelt Anchee Min over haar bijzondere jeugd als modelcommunist. Van jongs af aan wordt ze grootgebracht …
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Dutch
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€5.63
