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On the Great Wall
Penny Peng

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Price: $15.95 US   ($19.95 CAN)

Summary

   A true-life adventure story when a young woman and a top rocket scientist return to China, on the eve of revolution. This gripping account has sold over 10,000 copies in China and now comes to a worldwide audience. Follow storylines of love, honor, power, justice and scientific quest, as you are swept from village life in Hunan to America, England, Germany and back over the Great Wall.

   Savor folk tales and proverbs along the way, as you meet ancient poets, Franciscan nuns, Red Guards and China’s top leaders.

   Merle Goldman of Harvard University’s Fairbank Center praised On the Great Wall as "the engrossing story of a man and woman who return … because of a deep sense of commitment to their country.  As Mao Zedong’s rule becomes increasingly totalitarian, their foreign educations make them targets of attack.  A Kafkaesque search to find the killers … and a suspense-filled tale of a Chinese family, trying to survive against overwhelming odds.” 

   On the Great Wall also offers a peek into the early days of China’s space program.  The launch of China’s first manned spaceship Shenzhou V was a lifelong dream of the main character, Dr. Yao Tung-ping.  Anyone who longs to travel between East & West will also be transported by the humanity, wit and wisdom of this gifted author currently living in Beijing.