This anthology includes four pieces by the well-known Shanghai female writer Lu Xing'er. Xing'er is one of many talented contemporary authors who began appearing on the Chinese literary scene in the 1970s. With an observant, feminine sensitivity, she has tasted to...
OUR PRICE: 8.95
Cheng Naishan captivates her readers with stories about the lives of the Shanghai capitalists who have weathered thirty years of dynamic political changes, as well as the lives and thinking of their children. The Blue House is one such story describing the turmoils...
This collection of 21 short stories written in the 1990's is an fictional and non-fictional overview of life in China. Topics range from city and country life to travel, food and the joys and despair of women in Chinese society. This compelling volume of stories are...
OUR PRICE: 20
"Chinese women carry the burden of five thousand years of tradition"; thus begins the preface to this collection of 25 essays from well known female Chinese writers that illustrate their thoughts and musings on the female condition in modern-day China. Topics on...
OUR PRICE: 15
This collection of eight essays from Chinese female writers is a powerful and moving account of life in contemporary China. Topics range from marriage, children, intellectual issues, old age and family ties. This bilingual text is a wonderful way to enjoy...
OUR PRICE: 11.95
Enamored by Hollywood in prerevolutionary China, Wang Qiyao serendipitously poses for a photograph that is chosen for the cover of Shanghai Life magazine. Dubbed A Proper Young Lady of Shanghai, she wins second runner-up in a 1946 beauty pageant and is soon mistress...
OUR PRICE: 29.95
This is a wildly visionary and creative novel, constantly mocking and rearranging itself and jolting the reader with its own internal commentary. This is politics as pathology. From the start, the reader must be willing to share with Mo Yan the novel's central...
This is an inspiring, romantic, fateful memoir of the first and still most famous Chinese-born singer ever to make it on the world stage. A wild child living on his own during the Cultural Revolution, forced to labor in a factory for seven years, then nearly...
OUR PRICE: 27.95
First 20 lucky buyers will receive autographed copies. Maarten Troost has charmed legions of readers with his laugh-out-loud tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific. When the travel bug hit again, he decided to go big-time, taking on the world's...
OUR PRICE: 22.95
An engaging, informative cultural commentator who bridges East and West, Lang Lang has written more than an autobiography: his book opens a door to China, where Lang Lang is a cultural icon, at a time when the world's attention will be on Beijing. Written with David...
OUR PRICE: 24.95
When Hua Wu arrives in New York City, her life seems destined to resemble that of countless immigrants before her. She spends her hectic days in a restaurant in Chinatown, and her lonesome nights in a noisy, crowded tenement, yearning for those she left behind. But...
OUR PRICE: 14
A spirited memoir by a former Chinese factory worker who grew up in Nanjing, participated in the Tiananmen Square protest, and ended up an international journalist. Lijia Zhang worked as a teenager in a factory producing missiles designed to reach North America,...
OUR PRICE: 24