Letters in the Jade Dragon Box by Gale Sears

      Truth. In mainland China from 1949 to 1976, truth is all but eradicated, suppressed and supplanted by the iron will of Mao Tes-tung. Millions of people suffer untold anguish as their history, their culture, and their lives are brought under communist rule. Many flee to Taiwan and Hong Kong.
      As a child, Chen Wen-shan was taken from her family home in mainland China and sent to live with her great-uncle - a former general in the Nationalist Chinese army who had become one of the first converts to the LDS Church in Hong Kong. For ten years, Wen-shan has carried the sorrow of abandonment in her heart, with few memories of her life before. But at the death of Chairman Mao, fifteen-year-old Wen-shan receives a mysterious wooden box that holds a series of beautiful paintings and secret letters that reveal the fate of the family she has not heard from in more than a decade. 
      As Wen-shan and her great-uncle read the letters in the jade dragon box, they discover an unbreakable bond between each other, their family - both past and present - and the gospel of Jesus Christ. 
   

      This novel was beautifully written. It is an LDS christian novel and tells a lot about the faith and miracles that were happening at that time. It was very enlightening as to the condition of the Chinese people under the rule of Mao Tse-tung, and it was a very enjoyable, clean read.