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- Location(s): The Bronx, China, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
- Location(s): Paris, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
Down the muddy waters of the Yangtze River, through the raucous glamour of prewar Shanghai and the bohemian splendor of 1920s Paris, and back to a China teetering on the brink of revolution: this is the epic story of...
- Location(s): Northeast (Manchuria), North Korea, South Korea
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2 and 2011
Korea, 1943. Hana has lived her entire life under Japanese occupation. As a haenyeo, a female diver of the sea, she enjoys an independence that few other Koreans can still claim. Until the day Hana saves her younger sister...
- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1960s
The narrator, the reticent Kate, who is 12, and her teenage sister, the boisterous Frankie, are American girls living in Hong Kong in the summer of 1967. Their father, Michael, a photographer for Time magazine, spends most of each...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
Through the story of three generations of women in her own family – the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother and the daughter herself – Jung Chang reveals the epic history of China’s twentieth...
- Location(s): China, South East Asia, Tibet
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
It’s New Year’s Day and the year isn’t kicking off well for Tansy: her mother’s dead, she’s a cocaine addict and her boyfriend has just left her. A trip around the world seems like the only option except that...
- Location(s): China, India
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter – and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China – territory forbidden to foreigners – to steal...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): 17th Century
In 1626, Bada Shanren is born into the Chinese royal family. When the old Ming Dynasty crumbles, he becomes an artist, committed to capturing the essence of nature with a single brushstroke. Then the rulers of the new Qing...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): First half of the 20th Century
With its wild, dissolute, extravagant group of fossil hunters and philosophers, diplomats, dropouts, writers and explorers, missionaries, artists and refugees, Peking s foreign community in the early 20th century was as exotic as the city itself. Always a magnet...
- Location(s): Hong Kong, London, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
The Rock Star It is twenty years since rock musician Zach Anderson mysteriously plunged to his death in a lake. When media interest in the incident is suddenly re-ignited, hidden tensions fracture the glamorous facade of the Morgan family,...
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