This widely praised book explores the 1500-1800 period before China's decline, when the country was viewed as a leading world culture and power.

This groundbreaking book offers the first full analysis of the long-neglected and controversial subject of female infanticide in China.

Drawing from the author's thirty years of experience teaching world history, this book illustrates the importance of history to students and general readers trying to understand today's world.

By following the Truong family story alongside historical events, this thesis hopes to show how the ethnic Chinese leaving Vietnam were not true refugees, but were willing to accept the label.