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An epic Chinese tale, "Wolf Totem" depicts the dying culture of the Mongols--the ancestors of the Mongol hordes who at one time terrorized the world--and the parallel extinction of the animal they believe to be sacred: the fierce and otherworldly Mongolian wolf. The...

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Pre-Order. We will ship by early February 2009.  This controversial new novel is a big, spirited comedy of society running amok in modern China - told through the story of two brothers in a brand new capitalist world. Baldy Li is a girl-crazy, teenage...

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As one of the most unique omnibuses in the world, An Anthology of Chinese Short Stories, a stunning compilation of 121 stories written by the best Chinese writers of China's mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan and translated by the expert Harry J. Huang (also known as...

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PRE-ORDER ITEM, will be available by early January 2009. Grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words the vast changes China's people have encountered over a century. Hear from people who have lived through war and civil war, persecution,...

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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 conceit: that...

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This abridged version of the well known Chinese trilogy "The Torrents: Family, Spring, Autumn" is the masterpiece of Ba Jin, one of the great writers of modern Chinese literature. The trilogy recounts the decline of a large feudal family following the May fourth...

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An abridged version of the famous novel by Qian Zhongshu, this book is designed for learners of Chinese as a second language. With the hero Fang Hongjian's experience as the subject, the novel depicts the wretched and humdrum life of intellectuals in a...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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