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- Location(s): China, Hong Kong, Macau (Macao), Taiwan
- Genre(s): Spy, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The world is on high alert. Across the Strait from Taiwan, China’s armed forces appear to be readying for war. Could the People’s Republic be preparing to invade its island neighbour? Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service has a mole deep...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1800s
THE CAPTIVATING, HEART-RENDING STORY OF TWO WOMEN IN 1800S CHINA Love and loss. Sisterhood and betrayal. Little Flower and Linjing’s fates are bound together. As a child, Little Flower is sold to Linjing’s wealthy family to become a muizai....
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
In Japanese-occupied Shanghai, two people from different cultures are drawn together by fate and the freedom of music… 1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is...
- Location(s): China, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Turn 21st Century
Taut, panoramic and powerful; Paper Names is an unforgettable debut about the long shadows of our parents, the ripple effects of our decisions and the ways in which our love transcends difference. Outside a New York apartment building, an...
- Location(s): China, Qingdao, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
- Era(s): 1985 / 2007
A darkly glittering debut that traces a mixed family’s troubled trajectory through developing China. Shanghai, 2007: feeling betrayed by her American mother’s engagement to their rich landlord Lu Fang, fourteen-year-old Alva begins plotting her escape. But the exclusive American...
- Location(s): Hong Kong, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1997
e On Borrowed Time is set in Hong Kong and Shanghai over the period 1996/1997 – including the handover of Hong Kong to China. The novel explores the choices that people have to make; in particular between doing what...
- Location(s): Wuxi
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 15th Century
In 15th-century China two women are born under the same sign, the Metal Snake. But life will take the friends on very different paths. According to Confucius, ‘an educated woman is a worthless woman’, but Tan Yunxian – born...
The Book of Beijing: Reading The City
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
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.
- Location(s): China, Japan, Northeast (Manchuria)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1900s
Manchuria, 1908: A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded by rumours of foxes, believed to lure people into peril by transforming into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for...
- Location(s): China, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Jasmine Yang thought her daughter was dead at birth. But five years after she was taken from her arms, she learns that her controlling husband sent the baby to America to be adopted, a casualty of China’s one-child-policy. Fleeing...
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