Fourteen year old Sam travels to China with her mother. the pacifist Dr Lee who is a scientific tour guide of Experts Anonymous.While Sam loved the food,the people and the Great Wall, she finds that China has many hidden...

Can ex-NSA agent Ava stop the Emperor’s war plans before he kills millions – and her? There’s a new Cold War…and it’s about to erupt into World War Three. Emperor Qin – absolute ruler, dictator for life – has...

To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor’s wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine she enters the erotically charged and ritualised Forbidden City....

When Laura Clayton, a British teacher working in Beijing, goes missing, former Met detective-turned private investigator Ed Vaughan is hired to search for her. But within hours of arriving in the Chinese capital to start their investigation, Vaughan and...

“Last Kiss in Tiananmen Square” is a novel based on the 1989 Tiananmen Square Pro-democracy movement. The novel follows a young woman, Baiyun, a junior in college, trying to reconcile her upbringing while in the midst of the rising...

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...

First published in China in 1937, Rickshaw Boy is the story of Xiangzi, an honest and serious country boy who works as a rickshaw puller in Beijing. A man of simple needs whose greatest ambition is to one day...

In 1983, Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death.But six weeks later, a second examination revealed there was no cancer–he had won “a second reprieve from death.” Faced...

Bringing together fiction from celebrated writers, The Book of Beijing is an anthology of short stories charting the social and and cultural change of Beijing over the last fifty years, creating a literary map of the city.

It is the 15th Century. At the dawn of the Ming Dynasty, three women’s paths will cross. And of their journey, a tale will be born. An imperial concubine, a Persian traveler and a mysterious storyteller. Three women: One...