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The Twelve Days to Christmas

The Twelve Days to Christmas
  • Author(s): Michele Gorman
  • 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...

The Valley of Amazement

The Valley of Amazement
  • Author(s): Amy Tan
  • 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...

This is How it Really Sounds

This is How it Really Sounds
  • Author(s): Stuart Archer Cohen
  • 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...

Trade Winds

Trade Winds
  • Author(s): Christina Courtenay
  • 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

Typhoon

Typhoon
  • Author(s): Charles Cumming
  • 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.

Under Fishbone Clouds

Under Fishbone Clouds
  • Author(s): Sam Meekings
  • 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...

Walking Home from Mongolia

Walking Home from Mongolia
  • Author(s): Rob Lilwall
  • 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,...

Women of the Silk

Women of the Silk
  • Author(s): Gail Tsukiyama
  • 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...

Enigma of China

Enigma of China
  • Author(s): Qiu Xiaolong
  • 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...

All The Flowers in Shanghai

All The Flowers in Shanghai
  • Author(s): Duncan Jepson
  • 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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