China - Edward Rutherfurd

China

By Edward Rutherfurd

  • Release Date: 2021-05-11
  • Genre: Historical Fiction
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 187 Ratings

Description

The “unparalleled master of the historical saga" (Newsweek) and internationally bestselling author of Paris and New York takes on an exhilarating new world with his trademark epic style in China: The Novel

Edward Rutherfurd has enthralled millions of readers with his grand, sweeping historical sagas that tell the history of a famous place over multiple generations. Now, in China: The Novel, Rutherfurd takes readers into the rich and fascinating milieu of the Middle Kingdom.

The story begins in 1839, at the dawn of the First Opium War, and follows Chinese history through Mao's Cultural Revolution and up to the present day. Rutherfurd chronicles the rising and falling fortunes of members of Chinese, British, and American families, as they negotiate the tides of history. Along the way, in his signature style, Rutherfurd provides a deeply researched portrait of Chinese history and society, its ancient traditions and great upheavals, and China's emergence as a rising global power. As always, we are treated to romance and adventure, heroines and scoundrels, grinding struggle and incredible fortunes.

China: The Novel
brings to life the rich terrain of this vast and constantly evolving country. From Shanghai to Nanking to the Great Wall, Rutherfurd chronicles the turbulent rise and fall of empires as the colonial West meets the opulent and complex East in a dramatic struggle between cultures and people.

Extraordinarily researched and majestically told, Edward Rutherfurd paints a thrilling portrait of one of the most singular and remarkable countries in the world.

Reviews

  • Pure enjoyment

    5
    By b'tonsterl
    Thoroughly enjoyed this book. I learned so much about this fascinating country and have a much better understanding of the current challenge the West faces.
  • Entertaining and enthralling

    5
    By SQ Fan
    I enjoyed the book very much and it kept you reading to the end. I found it’s historical contexts and author’s imagination to combine well together. It may even let the reader look into a character in the book who wrote about his time during the boxer rebellion.
  • Good, not his best

    3
    By Johnawc
    I have read everything by Rutherfurd. His writing is always an easy read. I looked forward to this novel, but unlike New York, Paris, London, The Forest etc., the time span of the book was a lifetime rather than centuries. There was more Peyton Place than Michener in this one. It is still a good read, just not the historical novel that I had expected.
  • China

    5
    By Billy in Vermont
    Great book.

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