China: The Novel

One sentence synopsis... Beginning at the dawn of the Opium War, this historical epic follows the rising and falling fortunes of a cast of Chinese, British, and American families.

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Read it if you like... all the other Rutherfurd sagas. However in ‘China' the prolific author takes a slightly closer look at the period of Mao's Cultural Revolution than he usually dedicates to a particular time period.

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Dream casting... Fala Chen as the beautiful and resourceful Mei-Ling. Ben Barnes as down on his luck opium trader John Trader.