Jeanne Marie Gescher: Becoming China [2017] hardback SHBFI It's a book that inspires

It's a book that inspires hope

love and the inevitable loss of innocence

They find nothing but soil

and just how far a little of it could go

It is a search that uncovers both passions and mysteries

Jeanne Marie Gescher: Becoming China [2017] hardback SHBFI It's a book that inspiresWeaving 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