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The Phoenix Years Hardcover – October 3, 2017

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"Amidst all the chatter about China lies this rock of a book, a magnificent memoir and history from the very core of modern Chinese society. It's a wonderful thing where the essential book and the delightful book are, as in this case, the same thing. Let no one speak of China who has not read The Phoenix Years." ― Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's List

"A well-grounded survey of the incredible courage of Chinese artists since the first flowering of the late 1970s and subsequent crackdowns. An illuminating chronicle of several generations of resilient and beleaguered Chinese artists, with minibiographies, a helpful timeline, and extensive notes." ―
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"[O’Dea] makes geopolitical history accessible and engaging through the lives and experiences of such individual artists as Huang Rui and Guo Jian. O’Dea writes for readers new to art, offering straightforward descriptions of individual works, and new to Chinese history, explaining the nuts and bolts of crucial policies and protests. By focusing on how individuals experienced communism and resisted it, O’Dea succeeds in making history human." ―
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The Phoenix Years is an essential background history of modern China. O’Dea captures the intellectual excitement of the bohemians of modern China while enriching her own understanding of Chinese history." ― Shelf Awareness (starred)

"Beautifully crafted and immensely readable. Required reading for all those who seek to understand how China has stumbled repressively through the past 40 years and how its finest citizens have persisted in trying to imagine a better, freer China. O’Dea does not put a foot wrong. The soul of the book, however, breathes in her account of the lives and artistic endeavors of a range of people." ―
The Australian

"O’Dea has done a great service by bringing together the disparate stories of her artists and showing how their creativity has been a constant struggle against regime repression. Their vision for China’s future should be ours." ―
Paul Monk, author of Thunder from the Silent Zone: Rethinking China

About the Author

Madeleine O'Dea is a writer and journalist who has been covering the political, economic and cultural life of China for the past three decades. She first went to Beijing in 1986 as the correspondent for the Australian Financial Review newspaper, and covered China through the 1990s as a producer with ABC Television. She was the founding editor-in-chief of Artinfo China and the Asia correspondent for Art + Auction and Modern Painters magazines. She has written for a range of other publications including the Guardian, The Art Newspaper, Bazaar Art, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, the Toronto Globe and Mail, and The Australian.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pegasus Books; First Edition (October 3, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 360 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1681775271
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1681775272
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.21 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.4 x 9 inches
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