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- 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
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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