Life and Death in the Garden: Sex, Drugs, Cops, and Robbers in Wartime China

by Kathryn Meyer

This compelling book provides a rare glimpse into the heart of wartime China. Kathryn Meyer draws us into the perilous world of the Garden of Grand Vision, a ramshackle structure where a floating population of thousands found shelter from the freezing Siberian winter. They had come to the northern city of Harbin to find opportunity or to escape the turmoil of China in civil war. Instead they found despair. As the author vividly describes, corpses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442223529
• ISBN13: 9781442223523
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 10.1"