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The Foremost Good Fortune

The Foremost Good Fortune
  • Author(s): Susan Conley
  • Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2007

American writer Susan Conley moves to Beijing with her husband and two young sons. A few months later she receives the diagnosis of breast cancer.The book is set against the fascinating backdrop of modern China, and offers up insight...

The Secret War

The Secret War
  • Author(s): Louise Burfitt-Dons
  • Location(s): Beijing (Peking), Hamburg, Liverpool, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

Karen Andersen, private investigator, stumbles across intelligence in a Liverpool University that an ultra-right faction of the CCP plan to release a new highly contagious virus on an unsuspecting New York City.

The Ginger Tree

The Ginger Tree
  • Author(s): Oswald Wynd
  • Location(s): Beijing (Peking), Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half of the 20th Century

A young woman travels from Edinburgh to Peking in the early 20th century,and writes about her experiences in diary form. She is trapped in a loveless marriage to a stiff and conventional man, and then falls in love with...

Beautiful Country

Beautiful Country
  • Author(s): J R Thornton
  • Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A coming-of-age story set in modern day China centering on the friendship between an American and a Chinese boy who meet while training with Beijing’s Junior National Tennis Team. Chase Robertson arrives in Beijing as a fourteen-year-old boy still...

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...

A Dance with the Dragon

A Dance with the Dragon
  • Author(s): Julia Boyd
  • 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...

Beijing Coma

Beijing Coma
  • Author(s): Ma Jian
  • Location(s): Beijing (Peking), China
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn of 21st Century

Dai Wei lies in his bedroom, a prisoner in his body, after he was shot in the head at the Tiananmen Square protest ten years earlier and left in a coma. As his mother tends to him, and his...

Brushstrokes in Time

Brushstrokes in Time
  • Author(s): Sylvia Vetta
  • Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Cultural Revolution of China

“This is the book I struggled not to write. I buried the pain along with my Chinese name and changed my fate.” This is a fictional memoir by Chinese artist, Little Winter, who tries to re-establish the bond with...

Foreign Babes in Beijing

Foreign Babes in Beijing
  • Author(s): Rachel DeWoskin
  • Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2000s

Hoping to improve her Chinese and broaden her cultural horizons, Rachel DeWoskin went to work for an American PR firm in China. Before she knew it, she was not just exploring, but making Chinese culture, as the sexy and...

Kill with a Borrowed Knife: or Agent Ai

Kill with a Borrowed Knife: or Agent Ai
  • Author(s): Michael Wreford
  • Location(s): Beijing (Peking), China, Hong Kong, Moscow
  • Genre(s): Thriller

China, the eve of the September 11 attacks. A powerful cyber weapon is about to be released. Only one man can stop it … Journalist and SIS (MI6) contract agent George Quant arrives on the run in Beijing. Estranged...

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