The Chinese Assassin

An English Sinilogist is drawn into a web of intrigue when five years after a plane crash in Mongolia, a Chinese defector states he survived the crash, and on board was the Chinese defense minister, who was fleeing Mao and defecting to Russia - the survivor states Lin Pio was murdered and the plane crash used to cover his murder up, a riveting thriller.

The Chinese assassin

Grey, Anthony

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

This epic novel of a missionary and a young woman caught up in China’s Communist revolution is “an excellent read, panoramic in scope” (Financial Times).  To a China racked by famine and bloody civil war in 1931, young English-born missionary Jakob Kellner brings all the crusading passion of his untried Christian faith. He burns to save the world’s largest nation from Communism. But on the cold, unforgiving Long March, amid horror and despair too great for Christianity to salve, Jakob becomes entangled with Mei-ling, a beautiful and fervent revolutionary. Powerful new emotions challenge and reshape his faith—and entrap him for life in the vast country’s tortured destiny. Once held hostage by Red Guards in Peking for more than two years, author Anthony Grey crafts a portrait of China as a land of great beauty and harshness, of triumph and tragedy, as he traces the path of China’s Communist party from its covert inception through purge and revolution in an epic novel that enhances the reader’s understanding of modern China. 

Peking

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

Nowadays we talk about sex incessantly -- yet we still lack a comfortable language in which to do so. The 'polite' vocabularies of religion, medicine, law and sociology are too formal, value-laden and often simply boring, whilst the vernacular Anglo-Saxon words are regarded by some as 'obscene', and are frequently used by others in an aggressively negative, sex-hating way. Antony Grey criticizes the various rhetorics of sexual discussion, and points at the ways in which language often becomes a stumbling-block to mutual understanding and happiness. He calls for a thorough overhaul of sexual discourse, to pave the way for greater realism.

Speaking of Sex: The Limits of Language (Sexual Politics)

Self-Help

Continuum

In 1997 it will be thirty years since the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 made sex between two men aged over 21 in private no longer a crime. It also marks the seventieth birthday of Antony Grey, who was one of the leading campaigners for homosexual law reform in the 1960s. The articles and talks reprinted in this book (together with others published here for the first time) cover the whole span of Grey's campaigning life, ranging from his first, anonymous, letter to the press about homosexuality written in 1954 to his thoughts on present-day sexual politics in the 1990s. Topics covered include law reform, religious and social attitudes to homosexuality, sex education, young people and sex, and the gay movement. The book concludes with a newly-written essay reviewing the progress achieved since the middle of this century and assessing what remains to be done as we enter the coming one. Never afraid of controversy, Antony Grey provides a unique summary of a pioneering campaigner's forty years of gay activism. For over 40 years, Antony Grey has been a leading campaigner, not only for gay rights, but also for better laws about, and more sensible attitudes towards, sex generally. As Secretary of the Homosexual Law Reform Society during the 1960s, Director of the Albany Trust in the 1970s, and later as a freelance writer and counsellor, he has worked publicly and consistently for individual sexual emancipation and collective common sense. Discussion includes law and morality, pornogaphy and free speech, the Church and homosexuality, young people and definitions of consent, sex education, gay politics from the homophile movement to queer, and outing.

Speaking: Sex Law Politics (Lesbian and Gay Studies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Four families--American, French, and Vietnamese--find their destinies intertwined as they endure fifty years of political turmoil, revolution, and war, in a story that traces the fate of Saigon from 1925 to 1975

Saigon

British & Irish

Little,Brown

To a China racked by famine and bloody civil war in the 1930s, a young English-born missionary, Jakob Kellner, brings all the crusading passion of his untried Christian faith. He burns to save the world's largest nation from Communism. But on the Long March, amidst horror and despair too great for Christianity to salve, Jakob becomes entangled with Mei-ling, a beautiful and fervent revolutionary. Powerful new emotions challenge and reshape his faith -- and entrap him for life in that vast country's tortured destiny.

Peking: A Novel of Chinas Revolution 1921-1978

Little,Brown & Co

Tokyo Bay

By the author of "Saigon" and "Peking". Set in July 1853, this tale of the first clash between the fledgling modern nations of America and Japan illustrates the civilian hysteria provoked by the arrival of the Americans on steam-driven warships, and the mutual fears this set in place.

Macmillan

In 1946, Thailand's king, newly ascended to South-East Asia's last surviving throne, was found with a bullet in his head. The novel's action unfolds around the discovery of an old manuscript that seems to throw light on the still unsolved mystery. The author also wrote "Saigon" and "Peking".

The Bangkok Secret

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Dell Pub. Co.]

Ace Books

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The Chinese assassin

Peking

Speaking of Sex: The Limits of Language (Sexual Politics)

Speaking: Sex Law Politics (Lesbian and Gay Studies)

Saigon

Peking: A Novel of Chinas Revolution 1921-1978

Tokyo Bay

The Bangkok Secret

Saigon

The Chinese Assassin