Jeanne Marie Gescher: Becoming China [2017] hardback SHBFI a detailed map of the

a detailed map of the Lost Cities

The son of the most charismatic couple of the middle ages

He became the most visible poet of his age

It's a book that inspires hope

They find nothing but soil

Jeanne Marie Gescher: Becoming China [2017] hardback SHBFI a detailed map of theWeaving together the inspirations, ideas, wars and dreams that have shaped the way China's people have thought about order from the ancient past to the recent present, Gescher reveals a story of China as an epic and continuing battle about order that strikes at the heart of what it means to be Chinese. With the past in perspective, the clashes between China's people and the Party come to life as never before and the importance of China's question