Chinese Spring

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2019
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Hong Kong, 2012. Dimitri Johnson, a British Hongkonger, learns that he is dying. Stunned by the news, he goes to the annual candlelight vigil for the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre. How strange, he thinks, the nearly dead honouring the memory of the already dead. Over on the mainland, Dimitri's best friend, a Chinese academic, has been arrested for protesting against an official land grab in his ancestral village. So begins the ultimate struggle of Dimitri's life as he battles against an insidious cancer and fights to help his persecuted colleague. He'll also discover whether things have really changed in China for the post-Tiananmen generation.

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Hong Kong, 2012. Dimitri Johnson, a British Hongkonger, learns that he is dying. Stunned by the news, he goes to the annual candlelight vigil for the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre. How strange, he thinks, the nearly dead honouring the memory of the already dead. Over on the mainland, Dimitri's best friend, a Chinese academic, has been arrested for protesting against an official land grab in his ancestral village. So begins the ultimate struggle of Dimitri's life as he battles against an insidious cancer and fights to help his persecuted colleague. He'll also discover whether things have really changed in China for the post-Tiananmen generation.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Publisher: Contraband
Published: 16 May 2019
ISBN 10: 1912235145
ISBN 13: 9781912235148

Media Reviews

Praise for Christopher New's China Coast Trilogy: An extravaganza of colorful characters, pleasing continuity and `other world' mystery. Washington Post Book World Review; Shanghai is a book of epic proportions, full of plots and subplots woven around historical events. San Francisco Book Review; Packed with history, drama and authentic detail. Sunday Telegraph; A voice that is sophisticated, phlegmatic, sceptical, astute and very frequently sardonic. South China Morning Post

Author Bio

Christopher New is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Shanghai, part of his critically acclaimed China Coast Trilogy. Born in the UK and educated at Oxford and Princeton Universities, he is the former Head of the Philosophy Department at Hong Kong University, and he has written a number of highly praised novels set in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.