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1 online resource (1 audio file (30hr., 23 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Bruno Roubicek. |
| Summary |
A multi-stranded historical epic set in China in 1937, when Wuhan stood alone against a whirlwind of war and violence. Everyone's heard of Wuhan in connection with Covid-19. But 80 years ago it was equally famous as the first place on earth to decisively defeat fascism. In 1937 Japan invaded China, slaughtering 20 million Chinese - mainly civilians. As vast swathes of the country fell to the invaders, Wuhan was appointed wartime capital and symbol of Chinese resistance. China, a medieval society, began a desperately needed reorganisation - transforming itself militarily, educationally, medically and culturally. Their heroic efforts in Wuhan halted the Japanese. Weaving together a multitude of narratives, Wuhan is a historical fiction epic that pulls no punches: the heart-in-mouth story of a peasant family forced onto a thousand-mile refugee death-march, the story of Lao She - China's greatest writer - leaving his family in a war-zone to assist with the propaganda effort in Wuhan, the hellish battlefields of the Sino-Japanese war, the approaching global war seen through a host of colourful characters - from Chiang Kai-Shek, China's nationalist leader, to Peter Fleming, British journalist based in Wuhan and a prototype for his younger brother Ian Fleming's James Bond. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- China -- Fiction.
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Wuhan (China) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949 -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Roubicek, Bruno.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781801106627 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1801106622 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14559393 |
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