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Death of a Red Heroine

Death of a Red Heroine
  • Author(s): Qiu Xiaolong
  • Location(s): Shanghai

Communist China is a compelling setting, political intrigues, and Party dynamics, China of the 1990s – and its food, culture and people. Inspector Chen and Detective Yu are likable and rounded characters, who persue their cases their cramped living...

Dreams of Joy

Dreams of Joy
  • Author(s): Lisa See
  • Location(s): China, Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s

Nineteen-year-old Joy Louie has run away from her home in 1950s America to start a new life in China. Idealistic and unafraid, she believes that Chairman Mao is on the side of the people, despite what her family keeps...

Forgotten

Forgotten
  • Author(s): Heleyne Hammersley
  • Location(s): Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What if you woke up in a strange place and didn’t know who you were? A woman reins consciousness in a Thai hospital unaware of how she got there or who she is. The doctor names her Kai, the...

Half the World Away

Half the World Away
  • Author(s): Cath Staincliffe
  • Location(s): Chengdu
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

Newly graduated photography student Lori Maddox spends the year after university travelling and visits China where she finds work as a private English tutor. Back in Manchester, her parents Jo and Tom, who separated when Lori was a toddler,...

Harbour Views

Harbour Views
  • Author(s): Philip Chatting
  • Location(s): Hong Kong
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Norwegian expatriate Jakob Odergaard rules his successful furniture corporation with a ruthlessness and egotism that draws comment even in the merciless cut and thrust of the Hong Kong business world. His baleful influence warps the lives of all around...

MONGKOK STATION

MONGKOK STATION
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Hong Kong
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Hong Kong is teetering on the edge of anarchy. Violent street battles are raging between riot police and mobs demanding democracy. Samuel Tay is a legendary Singapore homicide detective. He’s retired, but it was purely involuntary. It seems his...

The Ballad of a Small Player

The Ballad of a Small Player
  • Author(s): Lawrence Osborne
  • Location(s): Macau (Macao)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

I waited patiently for the next hand to be played out, and I had a feeling it was going to be a Natural, a perfect nine.’ His name is Lord Doyle. His plan: to gamble away his last days...

The Cartography of Others – Short Stories

The Cartography of Others – Short Stories
  • Author(s): Catherine McNamara
  • Location(s): Ghana, Hong Kong, Italy, London, Mali, Paris, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Japanese soprano sets sail for arid, haunted Corsica where she seeks her lost voice. A nude woman at the window of a Hong Kong hotel watches her lover dine in an adjacent building, but is her desire faltering?...

The Emperor of Shoes

The Emperor of Shoes
  • Author(s): Spencer Wise
  • Location(s): Guangdong
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From an exciting new voice in literary fiction, a transfixing story about an expatriate in southern China and his burgeoning relationship with a seamstress intent on inspiring dramatic political change. Alex Cohen, a twenty-six-year-old Jewish Bostonian, is living in...

The Eye of Jade

The Eye of Jade
  • Author(s): Diane Wei Liang
  • Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Mei, the protagonist, is an investigator. A friend of her mother, known as ‘Uncle Chen’, asks her to track down a Han-dynasty jade that vanished from a museum during the terrible upheavals of the Cultural Revolution. Was the jade...

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