The National Writers Series is a yearlong literature and book festival in Traverse City; the Series recently hosted author Anchee Min for a symposium at the City Opera House in April, 2014. The ...

A happy ending is relative to what precedes it—in this case, it stands in contrast to a horrific, true-to-life story about two girls growing up in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution. In the late ...

Welcome to the first of a new series of lunch time author programs at Asia Society. Enjoy a reading and discussion with author Anchee Min on the publication of her latest book, Pearl of China, a novel ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Anchee Min is an Author with five videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2000 Forum. The year with the highest average number of views per program was ...

BASED ON HER ORIGINS, Jiang Ching should have grown up to be a foot warmer for a rich man’s children. Instead she became Madame Mao Tse-tung, the most powerful woman China has yet produced. In Anchee ...

Join the Capitola Book Cafe as they welcome Anchee Min as part of their Author Event series. Anchee Min made her literary debut in 1994 with a memoir recounting her experiences growing up in China ...

In 1971, Madam Mao organized a national campaign to try to bar author Pearl S. Buck from accompanying President Richard Nixon on his landmark trip to China. All across China, adults and students alike ...

HARROWING TALES OF LIFE UNDER totalitarianism have been published before, but Anchee Min's "Red Azalea"-the story of a young girl coming of age in thrall to Maoism-ranks as one of the most memorable.

Empress Orchid is the fascinating story of a young Chinese concubine who becomes China's last empress as the Ch'ing Dynasty slowly dies in the latter half of the 19th century. It should not be ...

International bestselling author Anchee Min shares The Cooked Seed, the long anticipated sequel to her memoir Red Azalea, which picks up at Min's arrival in the United States without knowing any ...

Chinese-American writer Anchee Min will perform scenes from her novel Empress Orchid Monday at the Alley Theatre in a special presentation sponsored by the Inprint Brown Reading Series. Rather than ...