Anne F. Thurston is the former director of the Grassroots China Initiative and a senior research professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. She has authored and edited numerous books on China, including “Enemies of the People: The Ordeal of the Intellectuals in China’s Great Cultural Revolution” (1987), “A Chinese Odyssey: The Life and Times of a Chinese Dissident” (1991), and “The Private Life of Chairman Mao” (1994) with Li Zhisui. She co-authored “The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong: The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet” (2015) with Gyalo Thondup.

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Engaging China edited by Anne F. Thurston

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Engaging China | Fifty Years of Sino-American Relations by Anne F. Thurston explores the importance of the relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China which has only grown since Richard Nixon’s epochal visit in 1972. By the early twenty-first century, when the rise of China had become an inescapable fact, most American policy makers and experts saw bilateral ties with China as the most consequential foreign-relations priority for the United States.

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The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong by Gyalo Thondup and Anne F. Thurston

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The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong | The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet by Gyalo Thondup and Anne F. Thurston tells the story of the Dalai Lama’s exiled family from their sacred homeland of Tibet. For the last sixty years, Gyalo Thondup has been at the at the heart of the epic struggle to protect and advance Tibet in the face of unreliable allies, overwhelming odds, and devious rivals.

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