Healing China - Upholding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in the People's Republic of China (ePub)

China: An Epic Novel

"China in the nineteenth century: a proud and ancient empire forbidden to foreigners. The West desires Chinese tea above all other things but lacks the silver to buy it. Instead, western adventurers resort to smuggling opium in exchange.

The Qing Emperor will not allow his people to sink into addiction. Viceroy Lin is sent to the epicentre of the opium trade, Canton, to stop it. The Opium Wars begin - heralding a period of bloody military defeats, reparations, and one-sided treaties which will become known as the Century of Humiliation.

From Hong Kong to Beijing to the Great Wall, from the exotic wonders of the Summer Palace and the Forbidden City, to squalid village huts, the dramatic struggle rages across the Celestial Kingdom. This is the story of the Chinese people, high and low, and the Westerners who came to exploit the riches of their ancient land and culture.

We meet a young village wife struggling with the rigid traditions of her people, Manchu empresses and warriors, powerful eunuchs, fanatical Taiping and Boxer Rebels, savvy Chinese pirates, artists, concubines, scoundrels and heroes, well-intentioned missionaries and the rapacious merchants, diplomats and soldiers of the West. Fortunes will rise and fall, loves will be gained and lost [...]"

So this is certainly a cool book about China :)

Indeed, my dear old friend, the Golden Dragon 'Pyrite' - who happens to be the Guardian Dragon of the Chinese Communist Party [CCP] - found this novel to be very entertaining and factual about China.

Especially the Empress Dowager Cixi was described very accurately - who was responsible for numerous effective reforms - including the abolition of slavery and ancient torturous punishments.

On that note, we would like to remind all politicians in China and England that human evolution is a constant in the Universe. Just like Ancient Rome and the imperial dynasties of China had to make way for Liberty and Social Justice, so will inequality and classism make way for the English Republic :)

We would like to remind all People in China and England, that the importance of belonging to humankind takes precedence over all the marks of distinction that may separate one person from another.

The thing that matters most is not that we have any particular cultural or national identity, or that we abide by any particular philosophical conviction, but that we share with all People the highest values of Humanity: Love, Cooperation and Compassion.