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A Thread Unbroken

A Thread Unbroken
  • Author(s): Kay Bratt
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Chai and Josi share a bond that transcends ordinary friendship. While Chai has always been Josi’s protector-ever since they were toddlers, growing up together in a small Chinese village-she finds herself helpless when they are both abducted from their...

Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing

Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing
  • Author(s): Jim Yardley
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

The wonderfully original story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right its fortunes by copying the American stars of the NBA-a season of cultural misunderstanding that transcends sports and reveals China’s ambivalent...

Creation

Creation
  • Author(s): Gore Vidal
  • Location(s): China, Greece, India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 5th Century BC

Vidal’s historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of India, China and Greece. Pericles, Thucydides,...

Intrusion

Intrusion
  • Author(s): Reece Hirsch
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When a powerful client summons him for a midnight meeting, lawyer Chris Bruen knows something is very wrong. Zapper, the world’s most popular search engine, has been compromised and its most valuable asset—search algorithms—stolen. The company suspects that this...

Message from an Unknown Mother

Message from an Unknown Mother
  • Author(s): Xinran
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Modern

Ten chapters, ten women and many stories of heartbreak, including her own: Xinran once again takes us right into the lives of Chinese women and their lost daughters. Whether as a consequence of the single-child policy, destructive age-old traditions...

Peach Blossom Pavilion

Peach Blossom Pavilion
  • Author(s): Mingmei Yip
  • Location(s): China, Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

A book set in the Philippines that goes where not many contemporary British writers have ventured… Torn from her family. Destined to become the most desired courtesan in China. A seductive and evocative debut that opens the doors on...

Pearl of China

Pearl of China
  • Author(s): Anchee Min
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn of 20th Century

In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, two young girls from very different worlds collide and become inseparable companions. Willow is hardened by poverty and fearful for her future: Pearl is the daughter of a Christian missionary who desperately...

Peony in Love

Peony in Love
  • Author(s): Lisa See
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1600s

Peony has neither seen nor spoken to any man other than her father, a wealthy Chinese nobleman. Nor has she ever ventured outside the cloistered women’s quarters of the family villa. As her sixteenth birthday approaches, she finds herself...

Red Lotus

Red Lotus
  • Author(s): Pai Kit Fai
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

Yip Mann, an elderly spice farmer, should have known better than to purchase a fifteen-year-old cherry-girl as his concubine, especially one beautiful enough to be seen as Ch’ien Gum – comparable to a thousand pieces of gold. But surely...

Rising Sun, Falling Shadow

Rising Sun, Falling Shadow
  • Author(s): Daniel Kalla
  • Location(s): Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

The year is 1943 and Nazi pressure onthe Japanese means thousands of Jewish refugees relocate to Shanghai. Franz and Sunny Adler make the move to the ghetto and continue to operate the only hospital for Jewish refugees

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