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- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Novella
Hannah’s in a bit of a pickle. In twelve days she flies from Hong Kong to the US with Sam, where he’s finally going to meet her parents… and ask to marry her. Since overcoming a rather rocky patch...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Turn of the 19th Century onwards
In fin de siècle Shanghai, Violet Minturn grows up at Hidden Jade Path, the city’s most exclusive courtesan house. But when revolution comes, she is separated from her mother and forced to become a “virgin courtesan.” Both Chinese and...
- Location(s): Alaska, California, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Ranging from the wicked noir Shanghai of 1946, to the echo chambers of Hollywood, to remote, snow-covered mountains, This Is How it Really Sounds follows three men, each in search of a different life. Small-town Alaskan “Harry” Harrington is...
- Location(s): China, Gothenburg, Scotland
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1730s
The protagonists of the story Jess van Sandt, Killian Kinross and their family and friends are all fictitious. But the story is based around the Swedish East India Company’s first journey to China in 1732
- Location(s): China, Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Late 1990s onwards
Typhoon is a really fast moving and fascinating insight into a side of China that is generally not really well known. The central character is Joe Lennox, who is likeable but not sanctimonious working for the SIS.
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s onwards
‘Under Fishbone Clouds’ is a love story and family saga interwoven with traditional folktales and stories from ancient Chinese history. Set against the backdrop of dramatic events of recent Chinese political history, we follow the lives of Jinyi and...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Starting in the Gobi desert in winter, adventurer Rob Lilwall sets out on an extraordinary six month journey, walking 3,000 miles across China. Along the way he and cameraman Leon brave the toxic insides of China’s longest road tunnel,...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1926
In “Women of the Silk” Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Era(s): Modern
Chief Inspector Chen faces has to consider his role as a policeman and party official. head of the Shanghai Housing Development Committee has supposedly committed suicide after a huge amount of corruption has come to light. It has to...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
In 1930s Shanghai, following the path of duty takes precedence over personal desires for every young Chinese woman. For Feng, that means becoming the bride of a wealthy businessman in a marriage arranged by her parents. In the enclosed...
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