Blogs in March 2023

Ninth Building 23rd March 2023

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...

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The Funeral Cryer 16th March 2023

An Yu’s Braised Pork meets Flaubert’s Madame Bovary in this unforgettable, tragi-comic tale of one woman’s mid-life re-awakening in contemporary rural China. The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because...

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Tomorrow in Shanghai 16th February 2023

A short story collection exploring cultural complexities in China, the Chinese diaspora in America, and the world at large. In a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, May-lee Chai’s latest collection Tomorrow...

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Emperor 14th December 2022

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...

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Foul Lady Fortune 22nd August 2022

It’s 1931 in Shanghai, and the stage is set for a new decade of intrigue. Four years ago, Rosalind Lang was brought back from the brink of death, but the strange experiment that saved her also stopped her from...

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