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Upton Sinclair sharply criticizes the relationship between art and capital throughout history. He shows how money and power have always influenced literature, painting, and music, and how great artists were often prisoners of the "golden chain."
Two Americans meet as young men in late 19th century China. One becomes a powerful media mogul obsessed with control, the other a humanitarian doctor. An epic tale of friendship, power, ideals and the clash of two opposing worldviews.
Pearl S. Buck depicts the life of Chinese peasant Wang Lung, his rise from poverty to wealth, and the disintegration of family ties. The novel explores the relationship between man and land, tradition, social change, and moral challenges.
Volumes 79-81 of the interwar library of 1000 most beautiful short stories bring a selection of short stories by seven European and American authors, edited by Ljubo Wiesner.
Noriko Kamiza, of mixed blood (a Japanese aristocrat and an African-American soldier), is an outcast in post-war Kyoto. Hidden and abused because of her race, she struggles for identity, the love of her brother, and a place in a world that does not accept
A moving historical novel about the friendship between two American teenage girls of German and Japanese descent, who meet in an internment camp in Texas during World War II. A story of identity, loss, and hope in dark times.