Born in Shanghai in 1957, Anchee Min came to American in 1984. While attending English as a Second Language classes, she worked as a waitress, a house cleaner, a fabric painter, and a model. In 1990 she received a Masters of Fine Arts Degree from the Art Institute of Chicago. Min wrote Red Azalea in English over an eight-year period. It won the Carl Sandburg LIterary Award in 1993 and was a New York Times Notable Book.

Red Azalea
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Pearl of China
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The Last Empress
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Becoming Madame Mao
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The Cooked Seed: A Memoir
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Chinese Propaganda Posters. 45th Ed. (45th Edition) (Multilingual Edition)
Releases 5/31/2026