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- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
From one of the most outstanding figures of modern Chinese literature . . . A moving, colorful novel that reflects a period of great turmoil in Chinese history. Originally written for and about educated Chinese youth in the 1930s,...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Adventure
Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. An international...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
It’s 1931 in Shanghai, and the stage is set for a new decade of intrigue. Four years ago, Rosalind Lang was brought back from the brink of death, but the strange experiment that saved her also stopped her from...
- Location(s): Hong Kong, South London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s/70s+1997
A powerful debut novel about family secrets and what it costs to belong, for fans of Brit Bennett and Clare Chambers. ‘An astounding debut … written with emotion and astuteness, this deserves to be on book prize lists’ PRIMA...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1920s
A powerful teen thriller with echoes of J G Ballard’s Empire of the Sun and Miracles of Life … Obsessed with martial arts and ghost stories, Ruby is part of a gang of Chinese and ex-pat children who hide...
Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
- Location(s): Japan, Australia, Bali, China, Fiji, Mexico, Spain, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Current
Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is a collection of short fiction fifteen stories high, nine countries wide, and peopled with wily, quick-witted, dim-witted, hapless, helpless, strong and gentle characters. These are tales about people with...
Great State: China and the World
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Across history
China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
February 28, 1947: Trapped inside the family home amid an uprising that has rocked Taipei, Dr. Tsai delivers his youngest daughter, the unnamed narrator of Green Island, just after midnight as the city is plunged into martial law. In...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
After graduating, Lori Maddox heads off travelling and arrives in China where she finds work as a private English tutor. Back in Manchester, her parents Jo and Tom follow her adventures on her blog. Suddenly communication stops. When the...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 20th century
A surprising and highly entertaining story of revolutionary vigor and sexual desire, infused with the humor of Yan Lianke’s Serve the People!, Hard Like Water is an unforgettable portrait of two young revolutionaries whose forbidden love sets them against...
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