Forbidden City
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The illustration on our cover is taken from Stories for Children by Oscar Wilde, illustrated by P J Lynch, 0 7500 0302 2, £10.00 (see Fairy Tale Favourites). The book is published by Simon & Schuster and we're grateful to them for help in using this illustration.
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Forbidden City offers a fictional eye-witness account of the Tian An Men Square massacre, but its basis in fact lends it a reality which both saddens and angers. Events are seen through the diary of Alex Jackson, whose love of war history is soon tempered by events. He finds himself involved with, and strongly supportive of, the student cause. The book alters perspectives - those of characters and of readers - and educates the Westerner into the mysteries of life in modern China. A valuable cross-curricular resource, excellent for GCSE.
