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- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s - 1990s
An epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post-Cultural Revolution China, A Map for the Missingreckons with the costs of pursuing one’s dreams and the lives we leave behind Tang Yitian has been living in America for...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021 A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature Can Xue’s stories observe no obvious conventions of plot or characterization. That is...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Chinese Cultural Revolution
A classic, heartwarming tale set to the backdrop of the Chinese cultural revolution, with the timeless feels of Eva Ibbotson’s Journey to the River Sea. A beautifully written, timeless tale by bestselling Chinese author Cao Wenxuan, winner of the...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1960s
A family saga spanning fifty years and three generations, which takes the reader from the France of the Golden Age to poverty-stricken post-war Shanghai via the re-imagined rural China of the Cultural Revolution. Ah-Mei and her French grandmother, Nainai,...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Ancient
“The Story of the Stone” (c. 1760), also known as “The Dream of the Red Chamber”, is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The fifth part of Cao Xueqin’s magnificent saga, “The Dreamer Awakes”, was carefully edited...
- 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...
- 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): 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,...
The Cartography of Others – Short Stories
- 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?...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2013
In Chan Koonchung’s dystopian novel “The Fat Years,” which takes place in 2013, a month of history has been wiped out from China’s memory. During that month in 2011, the world went through a tremendous economic, political and social...
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