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|  | | A Guide to Chinese Affairs
This is a political treatise that deals with the China issue from a completely new perspective. Disparaging as he may sound, from page to page, toward "the old system" and the Communist Party's various wiles, the author demonstrates his mysteriously profound understanding of the Chinese leadership and the on-going changes in the world's most populous country.
A Guide to Chinese Affairs contains 12 chapters discussing such issues as communist rhetoric and phraseology; the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre; Western influences in China; the communist state apparatus; pressures for political reform; the Chinese leadership headed by President Jiang Zemin; China's economic reforms and investment environment; factionalism in the ruling Communist Party; bureaucratic corruption; social unrest; China's intentions regarding Taiwan and Hong Kong; and comparisons of historical events in China.
Since the author was born in Shanghai, China, and lived unde | |  | | Shanghai Escapist
Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70s China -- with all its trappings, taking the reader to the end of the road. This novel is not suppertime reading but rather hits at the heart of what it would be like to make a move on "the system" where hourly survival is all that would occupy one's mind.
All Barry Lee wants is to leave Shanghai and join his father in British colony, Hong Kong. But soon he finds that's exactly why he is in endless trouble. His attempt to escape to Hong Kong lands him in prison. He faces torture and interrogation.
After his release, he becomes aware that almost all the people he has met in the past are now either dead or in trouble. Times are bad, but he keeps hoping for a better future. In the meantime, he seeks escape from the harsh reality of life under totalitarianism by reading, by playing jazz, by loving, by having sex.... Is he doing the ri | |  | | The Socialist Cuckooland
The Socialist Cuckooland is fiction based on historical facts. Against an Orwellian backdrop, Barry Lee lives in fear and struggles for survival.
Short Synopsis:
Set against a backdrop of catastrophic turmoil, THE SOCIALIST CUCKOOLAND (105,000 words) is a tale of intrigue about a man who wants to escape. With a trenchant depiction of the nefarious mechanisms of a totalitarian police state, the novel reveals what challenges the main character has to face in Orwellian conditions, what attempts he makes in order to flee, and how he eventually makes it to the free world. Despite the dismal aura of fear that spreads through, the story, interspersed with scenes of music and romance, has a happy ending, even as it asks a serious quest |
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