This collection introduces five short stories by the popular Chinese woman writer Chi Li. Set in the large industrial city of Wuhan in Hubei Province, the stories focus on the lives of young people as they deal with questions of love and marriage,...
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The Tang and Song dynasties, spanning more than 600 years from the 8th to the 13th centuries, saw a period of great economic and cultural development in Chinese society. During this golden age of classical literature, numerous masterpieces were wr...
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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, ...
The infamous little red book of Chairman Mao's quotations is presented in a convenient pocket sized edition. Selected quotations about different topics are divided into chapters titled "Discipline", "Youth", "Culture and Art", etc. A wonderful sna...
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Lu Xun is arguably not the greatest writer of modern China, but his passion to truly work toward the health of the nation, was to diagnose the nation as an author rather than a physician. He abandoned the study of medicine because he thought he co...
Wisdom In Chinese Proverbs is a collection of comic strips designed to illustrate wise and witty sayings of ancient China.The themes of the comics were selected from a book called Zengguang Xianwen (Enlarged Anthology of Ancient Aphorisms) compile...
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 descr...
This book looks into some highlights of Chinese poetics from a historical and trans-cultural perspective. It carries out an in-depth discussion of such thematic topics as Confucius' expectation of poetry in education, Mozi and Xunzi on musical fun...
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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...
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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, taki...
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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 a...
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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 ce...