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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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...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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The eleven stories included here mark Tie Ning's writing career. The stories vary in theme and style covering youth and age and country and city life. "Ah, Fragrant Snow", "June's Big Topic" and "The Red Shirt Without Buttons" have won national literary prizes. Wang...
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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, she has tasted to...
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 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, and everyday...
This collection includes seven stories by Wang Anyi, the most popular Chinese woman writer of Shanghai. The stories tell much about the quality of life in China in the 1980s and the different senses of value of the writer's generation. The writer has captured not...
Now you can enjoy the Selected Works of Ba Jin in English in the comfort of your own home. Ba Jin, born in 1904 is a well-known writer in modern China. He began his career in 1927, and has a collected work of 14 volumes of novels and proses. The first volume...
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