Robert Elegant Books In Order

Imperial China Trilogy Books In Order

Dynasty (1977)
Manchu (1980)
Mandarin (1983)

Novels

A Kind of Treason (1966)
The Seeking (1969)
White Sun, Red Star (1986)
Bianca (1992)
The Everlasting Sorrow (1994)
Last Year in Hong Kong (1997)
The Big Brown Bears (1998)
Cry Peace (2005)

Non fiction

China’s Red Masters (1951)
Mao’s Great Revolution (1971)
Mao Vs. Chiang (1972)
Hong Kong (1977)
How to Lose a War (1982)
Pacific Destiny (1990)
Shanghai (2001)

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Robert Elegant Books Overview

Manchu

This novel transports the reader back to the savagery and the passion, to the opulence and sensuality, and to the great adventure of the last days of a dying dynasty.

Mandarin

Pocket Books Special Export Edition 1984; Historically accurate novel of love and war, passion and power, betrayal and victory in 19th century China by the best selling author of Dynasty

A portrait of the major countries of Asia, the continent that has economically overtaken Europe. It explains why and how Asia has become the future of the Western World and why the United States, above all, will ignore the challenge of Asia at its peril. For 30 years Robert Elegant covered Asia as a correspondant for the ‘Los Angeles Times’ and ‘Newsweek’. He saw war and revolution from the frontiers of Korea and China to the jungles of Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia. Two years ago, he returned to Asia for a protracted journey of rediscovery. This is his reporrt on the transformation of the places he knows intimately into major industrial powers, particularly Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. He talked with prime ministers and prostitutes, with factory workers, peasants, refugees and artists, mostly in their own languages. Travelling tens of thousands of miles, he saw and captured the dynamics of change, revealing what it means to us not only inn political and economic terms, but in human terms. Robert Elegant also wrote ‘Manchu’, ‘Mandarin’, ‘From a Far Land’ and ‘Mao’s Great Revolution’.