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Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
- Era(s): 1948 onwards
Today’s most revered, feared, and controversial Chinese novelist offers a tour de force in which the real, the absurd, the comical, and the tragic are blended into a fascinating read. The hero-or antihero-of Mo Yan’s ovel is Ximen Nao,...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s
A first-hand account of China’s cultural revolution. Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 and subsequently jailed. All attempts to make...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing hospital. Years later, her daughter Liya travels from America to China with her mother’s ashes, hoping to unravel the legacy of silences and...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2009-2016
Love and Other Moods is a coming-of-age story set in contemporary China, about falling in love, learning to adult, finding strength, and discovering one’s place in the world. Naomi Kita-Fan uproots her life from New York to China when...
- Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), China, Finland, Madrid
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
In 1937, courageous and independent Martha Gellhorn travels to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, and finds herself drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught in devastating conflict. She also finds herself unexpectedly...
- Location(s): Nanjing (Nanking)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Xinran takes her readers to the heart of modern Chinese society in this delightful and absorbing tale of three peasant girls getting to grips with life in the big city. The Li sisters don’ t have much education, but...
Monkey King: Journey to the West
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
- Era(s): N/A
One of the world’s greatest fantasy novels and a rollicking classic of Chinese literature, in a sparkling new translation and published in a Clothbound Classics edition. A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Monkey King is...
Monkey: The Journey to the West
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th century
Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic combination of picaresque novel and folk epic mixes satire, allegory, and history into a rollicking tale. It is the story of the rougish Monkey and...
- Location(s): China, Tibet, Wales
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
ROWLAND EVANS has led a truly remarkable life, but his seventieth year saw his driven, purposeful walk brought to an abrupt halt amidst the concerns and attitudes of the world to those “of a certain age”. In this lyrical...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking), China
- Genre(s): Biography, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 20th Century
Ninth Building is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from the author’s experience growing up during the Cultural Revolution, first as a boy in Beijing and then as a teenager exiled to the countryside. Zou poetically captures a side...
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