A Song For China

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This is a companion book to Red Land, Yellow River, which won the Bologna Ragazzi Award and the Rocky Mountain Book Award - an extremely honorable Western Canadian award, and was shortlisted for many other prizes. The book received two starred reviews, and rights were sold in seven territories. Red Land, Yellow River will be released in a new paperback edition at the same time.2019 marks the 80th anniversary of the composing of Yellow River Cantata. The piece will be performed around the world in celebration of this milestone.This book will appeal to the large Chinese diaspora in North America and around the world.Sidebars provide historical context about China in the first half of the twentieth century, including information about foreign concessions, the Japanese invasion of China, the Long March, World War II and the Chinese Revolution.The full text of the Yellow River Cantata is included in Mandarin, as well as in a new English translation by Andi Zhang, the author's sister.Curriculum connections: history / China, social studies / revolution, propaganda, conflicts, nationalism, language arts / biography, arts / music