The Way Forward
From Early Republic to People’s Republic (1912–1949)
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Stone Bridge Press
Published:28th Apr '22
Should be back in stock very soon
- Co-op available
- National TV and radio campaign
NPR, Books on Asia
- National print campaign/ galleys and e-galleys sent to
Book Forum, Book Riot, Booklist, BookPage, Buzzfeed Comics, CCG and Libraries, Choice Book Reviews, Foreword, Library Journal, Lithub, Longitude, Midwest Book Review, Panels, Paste, Pop Matters, Portland Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Rain Taxi, San Francisco Book Review, School Library Journal, SF Chronicle, Shelf Awareness, The Common Magazine, The Guardian, The LA Review of Books, The New York Journal of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Danwei.com, Paper Republic, Foreign Policy, China Rhyming, Tea Leaf Nation, China Daily, Beijing Review)
- Online/social media campaign
China focused organizations and blogs such as China Institute, Confucius Institute
- General eBook marketing plans
eBook will be available at the same time as print publication to maximize sales
eBook ISBN will be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed
Publisher and author will be promoting both e and p through social media
- General tour info
Set up virtual book talks at libraries and school that have big Chinese populations
- Promotion through the [author’s/book’s] website: [https://www.facebook.com/UnderstandingChinaComics/]
- Bookseller/Library promotions
Super annotation in Ingram Catalog, Baker and Taylor catalog advertising
- Books are aligned to Common Core Standards and/or Lexile measured
Lexiled – GN 890L
Direct mailings and newsletter advertising to Chinese-language programs at middle school level
Digital review copies on edelweiss
3 month netgalley promotion
How China became the China we know today, through war and societal transformation.
China entered the 20th century as an agrarian society, weakened under internal and external pressures. Revolutionaries came together to bring down the last imperial dynasty but quickly split over the direction of reconstruction. Civil wars ensued, followed by WWI.
The fate of the country appeared to be in the hands of industrial powers like Britain, Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, and the United States. All seemed lost when Japan seized all Chinese seaports, railways, industries, and fertile farmland. Yet Chinese resistance continued for eight years and the entire society was mobilized. After decades of struggling, China finally regained independence that laid the foundation for its own modernization.
"A great way to learn about China's vast history!"
—Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club
"Excels at clarifying the often-confusing transitional periods between dynasties… An excellent introduction to the large trends of early Chinese history.”
—School Library Journal
"Combines breezy style with historical rigor to strike just the right gong-tone for a middle school audience approaching the vast scope of Chinese history."
—Education About Asia
5/5 Stars "An invaluable source... Chinese history is a vast subject, but Jing Liu has a skillful ability to condense it all into an interesting and manageable narrative."
—Kids' Book Buzz
"The combination of silhouettes—often threatening, martial ones—with open-faced, expressively individualized figures of many social classes adds dramatic tension while neatly balancing the big-picture narrative. There's a lot to absorb even in this abbreviated form, but the visual approach lightens the load considerably."
—Kirkus Reviews
TEACHER AND PROFESSOR TESTIMONIALS
"This book is “The Magic School Bus” for those starting to explore Chinese culture."
—Dan Cao, Instructor at Confucius Institute at UC Davis
"An excellent history that clearly explains the great (and ordinary) people who have made China what it is and the conflicts and debates that have shaped Chinese history. There is nothing else like it in English or Chinese."
—Alan Baumler, Professor of History at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
"No more burying yourself in text-heavy history books to learn about China, this comic-style book manages to be rich in information and bring Chinese history to readers in a more clear, fun, and accessible way than it’s ever been done before. Easily integrated into a social studies or Chinese culture curriculum, I can’t wait to get a copy for my class."
—Grace Zeng, Chinese Teacher and Middle School Chinese Curriculum Area Leader at International School of Beijing
"Since the 1990s, Jing Liu has been entertaining and informing foreigners about China with his cartoons. His new series of comic books is a fun, easy, accessible way to gain a basic understanding of Chinese history and culture."
—Jeremy Goldkorn, Founder of Danwei
"This comic series is fantastic to use in the classroom. My students are drawn to this book - not only do they enjoy this graphic-novel style, it also helps them understand difficult historical concepts. What a fun supplement to the regular textbook!"
—Leslie Burgoine, Middle School History Teacher, Portland, Oregon
ISBN: 9781611720709
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
224 pages