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Lung had said in the public that she especially wanted readers from mainland China to read this book. However, since the books covered various misdeeds of the Chinese Red Army during this era, it was banned by the People's Republic of China government. However, this book is still obtainable to
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published in August 2009. It tells in detail, the events from the surrounding the conclusion of the Chinese Civil War including Chinese families that were broken up by the civil war that ended in the
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that 'the problem lies in the author's over-ambitious intent to write a testimonial saga of mammoth historical scope - all in 450 pages or 150,000 words. It should have been three times that size.'
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paying a visit to survivors of the Chinese Civil War in order to record their stories.
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Lee, Leo Ou-fan (December 2009). "The nobility of losing".
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Lung Ying-tai
Traditional Chinese
Modern history of China
Chinese Civil War
CommonWealth Magazine
ISBN
978-986-241-049-3
Imperial and Taiwan
Chinese
Lung Ying-tai
Kuomintang
Changchun
Nanjing
Shenyang
Matsu Islands
Taitung County
Pingtung County
Leo Ou-fan Lee
Muse
Li Ao
"Untold Stories of China and Taiwan"
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short story
stub
expanding it
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t
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