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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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 ne'er-do-well; his stepbrother is bookish and compassionate....
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Old Tales Retold is a collection of stories by Lu Hsun, prominent writer, thinker, revolutionary, and forerunner of China's Cultural Revolution. It contains eight stories on historical subjects, a period of thirteen years elapsing between his writing of the first...
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Readers from all over the world, who are used to learning about China through foreign newspapers, TV and the Internet, may now open up these books to see China through the heartfelt thoughts and writings of Chinese people themselves. The many Chinese women authors of...
Hugely popular in China, flash fiction is poised to be the most exciting new development in contemporary Chinese literature in a decade. Integrating both vernacular and contemporary styles while embracing new technologies such as text messaging (SMS) and blogging,...
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Various status, and living in different times and enviroments,the characters have some common features in their youthful years. People are always full of idealism and unlimited imagination when they are young, however the course of growing up is filled with cruelty...
The Great Masque is from the novella and short-story part of the 21st Century Chinese Literature series, focusing on life in the city. It has 14 pieces of stories selected from alternative ones. The many authors of these stories are famous writers in China's...
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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, invasion, revolution, famine, modernization and...
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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...
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...
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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