Series
Series about Republican China (3 series)
Shanghai Girls in Order
The Shanghai Girls sequence follows sisters Pearl and May from cosmopolitan Shanghai in 1937 to immigrant life in Los Angeles and then into the early People’s Republic of China. In Shanghai Girls, family debt, arranged marriage and the Japanese invasion force the sisters across occupied China and through…
The Good Earth Trilogy in Order
The Good Earth Trilogy follows three generations of the Wang family as rural poverty, landownership and sudden wealth reshape their place in a changing China. Beginning with Wang Lung and O-lan's struggle to survive through labour, famine and migration, the sequence traces what happens when the land that…
China Trilogy in Order
The China Trilogy follows connected foreign and Chinese families across the collapse of the Qing dynasty, the revolutionary conflicts of the Republican era and the political campaigns of the People’s Republic. The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure begins amid the Boxer Rebellion in 1899–1900; The Emperor’s Bones moves into…
