A cautionary tale of 3 eventful lifes, during Chinas transition from feudalism to modernity. Misogyny, civil war and occupation in China we're just blank facts for me before this book filled them with living images.

This book left me shocked about the absurdites costing lifes of millions and mesmerized humans ever managed to bring societies to prosper at the current level.

Not being much informed about world history this book leaves me wanting to read Jung Chang's Biography of Mao.