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- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): early 21st century
Chinese Cinderella is an autobiography for children based on the bestselling Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah. Jung-ling’s family considers her bad luck because her mother died giving birth to her. They discriminate against her and make her feel...
- Location(s): China, Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2012
Hong Kong, 2012. Dimitri Johnson learns that he is dying. Stunned by his doctor’s prognosis, he nevertheless makes his ritual annual pilgrimage to the candlelight vigil for the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre. But this year, he thinks,...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1966 - 1976
One of the last decade s ten most influential books in China, this internationally acclaimed novel by one of the mainland s most important contemporary writers provides an unflinching portrait of life under Chairman Mao. A cart-pusher in a...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
One girl too many . . . When a girl is born to Chu Ju’s family, it is quickly determined that the baby must be sent away. After all, the law states that a family may have only two...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
A forbidden romance. A deadly plague. Earth’s fate hinges on one girl . . . CINDER, a gifted mechanic in New Beijing, is also a cyborg. She’s reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s sudden illness. But...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1930s-1940s
City of Devils is a dramatic non-fiction account of Shanghai’s lawless 1930s – but such a gripping read, as if James Ellroy had stumbled into a Shanghai cathouse. Before the Japanese invaded, outlaws from all over the world escaping...
- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Set in the last shanty town of Hong Kong before the fraught 1997 handover from Britain to China, Diamond Hill follows the return of a recovering heroin addict, Buddha, as he tries to salvage what’s left from a place...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
“In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was ten years old.” Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an extended...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Shortlisted for the Children’s Book of the Year (British Book Awards). The first book in the ROARsome DRAGON REALM series for 9+ readers! Perfect for those who love fantasy, magic, adventure and DRAGONS! ‘Rollicking, escapist storytelling with a dragon-sized...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1960s
A family saga spanning fifty years and three generations, which takes the reader from the France of the Golden Age to poverty-stricken post-war Shanghai via the re-imagined rural China of the Cultural Revolution. Ah-Mei and her French grandmother, Nainai,...
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