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- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1990s
A tripped out sarcastic novel of urban alienation centred around a mysterious murder. Set in a Beijing populated by low-life gangsters and villains, it is narrated by the chief suspect of the crime though even he seems unclear as...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2013
In Chan Koonchung’s dystopian novel “The Fat Years,” which takes place in 2013, a month of history has been wiped out from China’s memory. During that month in 2011, the world went through a tremendous economic, political and social...
The Russian Concubine (The Girl from Junchow)
- Location(s): Tianjin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1928
Junchow, China, 1928 (fictional Tianjin). Lydia Ivanova has a fierce spirit. Nothing can dim it, not even the foul waters of the Peiho River. Into the river’s grime bodies are tossed – those of thieves and Communists alike. So...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s - 1990s
An epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post-Cultural Revolution China, A Map for the Missingreckons with the costs of pursuing one’s dreams and the lives we leave behind Tang Yitian has been living in America for...
- Location(s): Falmouth, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 19th Century
In Victorian Cornwall nineteen-year-old Susanna Elliot rebels against her strict Quaker background. Alienated from her family and community, rejected by the doctor she admires, and refused permission to take her dead brother’s place in the family business, she flees...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 1945 and present day
On the day of the historic 1945 Jewel Voice Broadcast—in which Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s surrender to the Allied forces, bringing an end to World War II—three men, flush with jubilation, made a pact. After their deaths, each year...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th century
Jan Jacob Slauerhoff (1898-1936) was a ship’s doctor serving in south-east Asia, and is one of the most important twentieth-century Dutch-language writers. His 1934 novel Adrift in the Middle Kingdom (Het leven op aarde), is an epic sweep of...
Bandit’s Daughter: Kung Fu Girl in Ancient China
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Ancient China, 11th century
At the beginning of the 11th century, General Yang sends his son Zongbao to exterminate the bandit living in Dragon-Taming Wood. In the forest, Zongbao is surprised by the bandit’s teenage daughter, a kung fu prodigy, who challenged him...
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