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The world is changing, and so are Chinese women in Australia. The harsh reality of life, culture shock, the impact of Western ideas and world outlook are a whirlpool that lash the souls of Chinese women from many directions, viciously and without compassion. Freedom in Australia has liberated them from the shackles of old Chinese culture. They have changed and are still changing. In many respects, one of the greatest changes is in their thinking and in their attitude towards sex, love and marriage. Some of them have crossed the boundary, and entered an area that is traditionally taboo in Chinese culture. These eight stories taken from real life give a glimpse of the changes in sexual life and marriage of Chinese women in Australia. >A Destroyed Girl >Crying fate >The Night She was 'Raped' >A Westernized Lady >Adultery in front of Her Husband >The Price of the First Night >Sad reunion (For this item please quote stock ID 27226) ISBN: 9780646407166

Five short and three long short stories by some of China's neglected contemporaries - Yang Zhengguang, Wen Yuhong, Ma Yuan, Li Rui, Li Hangyu, Ge Fei, and Yu Hua. Forget everything you know about contemporary Chinese fiction. These stories will shock and compel. You will learn something new about life and literature, not just 'life and literature in China'. The world of these writers is not without its horror and violence, but its representation in their writing is one aspect of a sophisticated, maturing artistic vision which distinguishes a new generation of young Chinese writers who demand recognition in the West. Copies of this out of print title still available. (For this item please quote stock ID 21597) ISBN: 9780948454134

'From a semi-fantastic tale out of Younghusband's expedition to Lhasa to a surreal delve in the language of scholarship; fantasy academies and subtle sexualities; exile anomie and bumptious confidence; from apartments in Berkeley to memoirs of harmless aesthetes trapped by the Cultural Revolution, this anthology is a window into the minds and lives of some of the world?s finest young writers' ? Gary Snyder. This is the second in a series of book-length biennial anthologies which will select the best writing which The Chinese literary magazine TODAY has published since its relaunch in 1989. The first volume is still available, and was published as Under-Sky Underground. The series offers a unique opportunity to read, in good English translations, a selection of fiction, poetry, prose and criticism by some of the best contemporary Chinese writers, bringing some of these authors to international attention for the first time. (For this item please quote stock ID 227) ISBN: 9780948454240

This book includes 112 fables by 38 well-known contemporary Chinese storytellers such as Ai Qing, Feng Xuefeng and Yan Wenjing, and is a continuation of Contemporary Chinese Fables published by Chinese Literature Press in 1990. Terse, vivid and humorous, these fables will appeal to most readers. It has striking illustrations and can be used by foreign readers wishing to learn Chinese and for Chinese readers interested in improving their English. (For this item please quote stock ID 1230) ISBN: 9787507104349

New Territories is a gweilo's pilgrimage in pictures and words through parts of Hong Kong least associated with foreigners. (For this item please quote stock ID 2388) ISBN: 9780000000002

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Two contemporary poets from Taiwan, Yang Mu (pen name for Wang Ching-hsien, b. 1940) and Lo Ch'ing (pen name for Lo Ch'ing-che, b. 1948), are represented in this bilingual edition of Chinese poetry ranging from the romantic to the postmodern. Both poets were involved in the selection of poems for this volume, the first edition in any language of their selected work. Their backgrounds, literary styles, and professional lives are profiled and compared by translator Joseph R. Allen in critical essays that show how Yang and Lo represent basic directions in modern Chinese poetics and how they have contributed to the definition of modernism and postmodernism in China. The book's organisation reflects each poet's method of composition. Yang's poems are chronologically arranged, as his poetry tends to describe a narrative line that closely parallels his own biography. Lo's poems, which explore a world of concept and metaphor, are grouped by theme. Although each poet has a range of poetic voices, Yang's work can be considered the peak of high modernism in Chinese poetry, while Lo's more problematic work suggests the direction of new explorations in the art. In this way the two poets are mutually illuminating. Each group of poems is prefaced by an 'illustration' that draws from another side of the poet's intellectual life. For Yang, who is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Washington, these are excerpts from his academic work (written under the name C.H. Wang) in English. The poems by Lo, a well-known painter living in Taiwan, are illustrated by five of his own ink paintings. (For this item please quote stock ID 4065) ISBN: 9780295972633

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'Chang Ta-chun is Taiwan´s most talented, unruly, and ultimately playful writer.' - Mo Yan, author of The Republic of Wine and Red Sorghum 'Wild Kids turned out to be not only the window on Taiwan I was looking for, but also a quick and enjoyable summer read. It is not without depth nor short of something to sink your teeth into.' - Jonathan S. Landreth, VirtualChina.com 'It's a considerable feat to have kids spout off about existentialism and not have them sound pretentious. Or high.' - Barbara Spindel, Spin 'In two jaunty, disturbing novellas from Taiwan . . . Chang Ta-chun presents us with disaffected adolescents who roam city streets, complain about school, fantasize about gangster life, and wear Chicago Bulls T-shirts.' - Maureen McLane, The New York Times Book Review These two searingly funny and unsettling portraits of teenagers beyond the control and largely beneath the notice of adults in 1980s Taiwan are the first English translations of works by Taiwan´s most famous and best-selling literary cult figure. Chang Ta-chun´s intricate narrative and keen, ironic sense of humor poignantly and piercingly convey the disillusionment and cynicism of modern Taiwanese youth. Interweaving the events between the birth of the narrator´s younger sister and her abortion at the age of nineteen, the first novel, My Kid Sister, evokes the complex emotional impressions of youth and the often bizarre social dilemmas of adolescence. Combining discussions of fate, existentialism, sexual awakening, and everyday absurdities in a typically dysfunctional household, it documents the loss of innocence and the deconstruction of a family. In Wild Child, fourteen-year-old Hou Shichun drops out of school, runs away from home, and descends into the Taiwanese underworld, where he encounters an oddball assortment of similarly lost adolescents in desperate circumstances. This novel will inevitably invite comparisons with the classic The Catcher in the Rye, but unlike Holden Caulfield, Hou isn´t given any second chances. With characteristic frankness and irony, Chang´s teenagers bear witness to a new form of cultural and spiritual bankruptcy. (For this item please quote stock ID 5188) ISBN: 9780231120975

Most of the writers included in this collection are master tellers of anecdotal stories in contemporary China. They are keen observers of everyday life and hence very prolific in their writing. The stories included in this collection are manifold: some are poetic; some examine the basic emotions of life; some excel in psychoanalysis; some have rich local flavour. Whatever the style or subject matter, the stories are always amusing, thought provoking, or cut straight to the soul. Rewarding reading from modern China. (For this item please quote stock ID 5264) ISBN: 9787507103724

'This collection of simple stories, written in simple language yet rich with vivid details, presents a gallery of portraits of disorientation, distortion, and frustration'. ? Guanlong Cao, The New York Times Book Review 'Hearts and souls are lost and found in each of these moving tales.Three-Legged Horse is a rare jewel, the first English translations from Cheng's 40-year writing career. We can only wait in eager anticipation for his next collection'. ? Gail Tsukiyama Pacific Rim Voices Book Review 'Cheng writes in a simple, clear, and disciplined manner, with no pretensions. . . . The stories . . . have universal appeal'. ? J. W. Walls, Simon Fraser University, Choice 'The moment you open the book you know why Cheng is considered a master. . . . These 12 tales are the finest examples of modern Chinese fiction I have come across in English'. ? Bradley Winterton, South China Morning Post 'Chekhov . . . would have understood the compassionate sensibility animating these gently harrowing, unpretentious, absorbing tales'. ? Kirkus Reviews 'The subtle gestures of the esteemed Cheng´s first translated collection summon the ghosts of Taiwan´s past. In twelve wistful stories, Cheng sketches characters who must reconcile their literal or cultural memories of Taiwan´s politically unstable history with the routines of their modern lives. . . . Cheng´s eye is sharp and keenly trained on the details of a changing society'. ? Publishers Weekly Here are 12 moving short stories about Taiwan and its people by one of the island's most popular writers, Cheng Ch'ing-wen. Focusing primarily on village life and the effects of modernisation on Taiwan in the postwar years, Cheng is one of the most respected of the island's 'nativist' writers, yet this is his first book to be translated into English. This anthology represents the best of his fictional efforts across a 40-year span and encompasses his major themes: the tensions between men and women, parents and children, city and village, tradition and modernity. Taken individually, each story presents a moving portrait of paralysis, frustration, or self-realisation. Together, they weave a complex tapestry of life in a rapidly changing country. Cheng Ch'ing-wen's stories tell of men grappling with their fears and frustrations, from 'The River Suite', in which a ferryman-championed throughout his small town for twice saving a drowning person-lacks the courage to confess his love to a young woman before she dies, to 'Spring Rain', in which a man struggles to come to terms with his seemingly rootless life as both an orphaned child and an infertile husband. Here too are illustrations of the changing place of women in Taiwan, as they take on more powerful roles and awaken to a sense of their own sexuality: a woman forcibly separated from her husband by her jealous mother-in-law walks for hours through the night to see him on his birthday, only to turn back and go straight home before her absence is noticed; a disappointed young female scholar with a deformed hand comes to realise - after many painful rejections - that loneliness is not reason enough to become intimate with a man. And generations clash in 'Thunder God's Gonna Getcha', as a mother's cruelty is repaid years later by a son's coldness. Death reverberates throughout these stories as characters recall deceased spouses, lovers, relatives, and friends in vivid detail. The focus, however, is not on the dead but on the living. In the title story, an old man carves exquisite lame horses as both a penance for having terrorised a town as a police officer during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan in World War II and a memorial to his deceased wife, who was nobler and more courageous than he. This book is a kind of gallery of three-legged horses: portraits of people maimed and transformed-for better or worse-by the suffering that life brings. (For this item please quote stock ID 5344) ISBN: 9780231113878

Set in the turbulent period between the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 until the end of the Second World War, The Banker shows us the double helix of life in Shanghai. The International Settlement, where the wealthy business and political administrators moved, contrasted sharply with the poor and densely populated Chinese sector. Cheng Naishan's works has been described as 'emotionally broad, socially complex'. (For this item please quote stock ID 5372) ISBN: 9780835124928

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The three short stories in this collection are the work of young writer Chu Fujin well-known for his poignant portrayal of contemporary Chinese female psychology. In ?The Naked Fields?, for instance, a lonely librarian meets a homeless country girl. Both feel alienated by city life and start living together. One day the girl is arrested on prostitution charges and the librarian discovers he is unable to extricate himself from his relationship with her. The two other stories in this collection are ?The Projection Room? and ?Man?s Worth?. Each of the stories is narrated in limpid, flowing prose and a deceptively detached tone, and imbued with the spirit of Oriental philosophy. (For this item please quote stock ID 5786) ISBN: 9787507102192

'Superb. . . A strong and perceptive voice now arises from Taiwan. . . Notes of a Desolate Man is a novel of questions and imponderables, not so much a cry of pain as the lively, sharp-witted record of it'. ? Peter Kurth, New York Times Book Review 'The novel in poetic translation is in itself a joy to read, writing that inspires awe for its intellectual scope and its sensitive portrayal of gay men and their lives - and deaths'. ? Charles-Gene McDaniel, Libido 'A fascinating glimpse into one man's experience of Taiwanese gay life'. ? Susan Vreeland, San Francisco Chronicle 'A stylish meditation on marginalisation, radicalization and decay'. ? Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times 'Ambitious, intelligent, and intense'. ? Booklist 'A poetic, philosophical account of a friendship between two gay men'. ? Publishers Weekly Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan. The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and lovers, as he watches his childhood friend, Ah Yao, succumb to complications from AIDS. The brute fact of Ah Yao´s death focuses Shao´s simultaneously erudite and erotic reflections magnetically on the core theme of mortality. By turns humorous and despondent, the narrator struggles to come to terms with Ah Yao´s risky lifestyle, radical political activism, and eventual death; the fragility of romantic love; the awesome power of eros; the solace of writing; the cold ennui of a younger generation enthralled only by video games; and life on the edge of mainstream Taiwanese society. His feverish journey through forests of metaphor and allusion - from Fellini and Lévi-Strauss to classical Chinese poetry - serves as a litany protecting him from the ravages of time and finitude. Impressive in scope and detail, Notes of a Desolate Man employs the motif of its characters´ marginalised sexuality to highlight Taiwan´s vivid and fragile existence on the periphery of mainland China. Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin´s masterful translation brings Chu T´ien-wen´s lyrical and inventive pastiche of political, poetic, and sexual desire to the English-speaking world. (For this item please quote stock ID 5796)

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A man travels the length and breadth of China, collecting stories, folk songs, lovers and experience in a search for meaning. Soul Mountain is a novel of immense wisdom and profound beauty, bursting with knowledge and experience and portraying a culture as vast and fascinating as the history of humankind itself. It is both fictionalised autobiography and documentation of the author?s journey through the Chinese hinterland from July to November 1983. Written over a period of eight years, the novel provides the author with the space to fully explore existential issues, human history, as well as the absurdity of his own reality and personal history. In 1982 Chinese playwright, novelist and artist Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer, the very disease which had killed his father. For six weeks Gao inhabited a transcendental state of imminent death, treating himself to the finest foods he could afford while spending time reading in an old graveyard in the Beijing suburbs. But a secondary examination revealed there was no cancer ? he had won a ?reprieve from death? and had been thrown back into the world of the living. Faced with a repressive cultural environment and the threat of a spell in a prison farm, Gao fled Beijing. He travelled first to the ancient forests of central China and from there to the east coast, passing through eight provinces and seven nature reserves, a journey of fifteen thousand kilometres over a period of five months. The result of this epic voyage of discovery is Soul Mountain. Interwoven into this picaresque journey are myriad stories and countless memorable characters ? from venerable Daoist masters and Buddhist monks and nuns to mythical Wild Men; deadly Qichun snakes to farting buses. Conventions are challenged, preconceptions are thwarted and the human condition, with all its foibles and triumphs, is laid bare. (For this item please quote stock ID 7275) ISBN: 9780732267797

Gao Yang (Kao Yang), whose real name is Xu Anping, is one of the most prolific and respected writers in Taiwan today. A firm believer in the inseparable relationship between history and literature, he has published more than fifty books that fully manifest his profound knowledge of Chinese history and his excellent mastery of the Chinese language. His works fall into three areas: fictions based on historical personalities; historical novels in late Qing settings; and studies on the Dream of the Red Chamber; thus making him at once an author, a historian, and a Redologist. An eminently successful author with a world-wide following, he is surely one of the very few outstanding Chinese writers whose works truly deserve to be introduced to the English-reading public. The two stories translated here are taken from his book entitled Purple Jade Hairpin. Rekindled Love is the story of Zheng Banqiao, one of the 'Eight Eccentrics' of the Qing dynasty, and his childhood lover Wang Yijie. Purple Jade Hairpin is an intriguing love story between the famous Tang poet Li Yi and a well-known courtesan Huo Xiaoyu. It is hoped that the translation can adequately recapture the excitement of these romantic anecdotes in the original. The translator: Chan Sin-wai teaches translation at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his doctorate from University of London in 1977 and has since published a number of books on modern Chinese history and Chinese-English translation. His publications include: T'an Ssu-t'ung: An Annotated Bibliography (1980); An Exposition of Benevolence (1984); Palaces of the Forbidden City (1984); Buddhism in Late Ch'ing Political Thought (1985); and Letters of Prominent Figures in Modern China (9 volumes) (1987). (For this item please quote stock ID 7277) ISBN: 9789622014466

Gu Cheng was part of the group which founded the seminal non-official literary journal Today during the 1979-80 Democracy Wall movement, or 'Beijing Spring', of which his own work became emblematic. A major talent, his poety stands as a reminder of the quality of work produced in China in the mid-1980s, despite sporadic official attacks. Gu Cheng left China in 1987. He finally settled in New Zealand where he conitnued to experiment with poetic form and content. His personal life, however, took a tragic turn, culminating in his suicide and the death of his wife in 1993. '... an important reference work for those interested in both Gu Cheng's poetry and his idiosyncratic ideals.' - The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs '... a most distinctive voice that will be remembered for a long time to come.' - World Literature Today (For this item please quote stock ID 7618) ISBN: 9789627255055

A stirring elegy of man?s inexorable - and tragic - relationship with the animal world and the implacable forces of nature, this collection of four novellas is a thought provoking exploration of the dynamics of human existence. In ?The Sand Fox?, ?The Desert Wolf?. ?Sand Burial? and ?Sand Rites?, the author transports the reader into the intriguing depths of his homeland - the Horqin wilderness in north China. With passion and pride, he weaves together the intricacies of survival in this harsh, alarmingly dangerous and complex environment, celebrating the tenacity and indomitable will of its people who live in the face of untold adversity. Deeply troubled by the ever-growing assault of the drifting yellow sand upon the plains and arable land, he fills his narratives with philosophical reflections on humanity, nature and existence. (For this item please quote stock ID 7659) ISBN: 9787507103441

In Waiting, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author Ha Jin draws on his intimate knowledge of contemporary China to create a novel of unexpected richness and feeling. This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of a society designed to regulate his every move and stifle the promptings of his innermost heart. For more than seventeen years, this devoted and ambitious doctor has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives the wife his family chose for him when he was young - a humble and touchingly loyal woman, whom he visits in order to ask, again and again, for a divorce. In a culture in which the ancient ties of tradition and family still hold sway and where adultery discovered by the Party can ruin lives forever, Lin's passionate love is stretched ever more taut by the passing years. Every summer, his compliant wife agrees to a divorce but then backs out. This time, Lin promises, will be different. Tracing these lives through their summer of decision and beyond, Ha Jin vividly conjures the texture of daily life in a place where the demands of human longing must contend with the weight of centuries of custom. >Waiting charms and startles us with its depiction of a China that remains hidden to Western eyes even as it moves us with its piercing vision of the universal complications of love. (Reissue of the 2000 original English edition) 'Compassionate, earthy, robust, and wise, Waiting blends provocative allegory with all-too-human comedy. The result touches and reveals, bringing to life a singular world in its spectacular intricacy.' - Gish Jen, author of Who's Irish? 'A remarkable love story. Ha Jin's understanding of the human heart and the human condition transcends borders and time. Waiting is an outstanding literary achievement.' - Lisa See, author of On Gold Mountain 'A deceptively simple tale, written with extraordinary precision and grace. Ha Jin has established himself as one of the great sturdy realists still writing in a postmodern age.' - Kirkus Reviews (For this item please quote stock ID 7672) ISBN: 9780099492726

A prominent and innovative representative of the 'root-seeking' school of fiction writing, Han Shaogong draws on myths, folklore and religious traditions in his search for the causes of China's cultural stagnation. An atmosphere of doubt and mystery, a lack of ready answers, pervades Han's work - a major departure from the moralist, didactic and propaganda modes which marked Chinese literature in the past. Anyone interested in China, its culture and its people will find these stories thought-provoking and profoundly moving. 'Han skillfully juxtaposes modern roles and tradition in a well-crafted exploration of the post-Cultural Revolution era.' - Sunday Morning Post '... one of the most innovatie and accomplished writers to emerge after the Cultural Revolution.' - World Literature Today (For this item please quote stock ID 7737) ISBN: 9789627255130

One long poem and a long sequence by the English co-translator of the first WellSweep publication, Songs of My Heart: The Chinese Lyric Poetry of Ruan Ji. Hartill's poems are based on his reading of two Chinese masters, Ruan Ji himself and China's most famous poet, Du Fu (Tu Fu). Graham Hartill has had numerous collections published in both the United States and the United Kingdom, where his work has also appeared in many small magazines. Copies of this out of print title still available (For this item please quote stock ID 7817) ISBN: 9780948454141

In telling the Hong Kong story, young local writers face up to such issues as rapid economic and political changes as well as the continuous impact of Western ideas and mores. They make a conscious effort to explore their own identity from a Hong Kong perspective, and to describe Hong Kong's special way of life and the trials and tribulations of a populace caught between two cultures. 'The six selections contained in Hong Kong Stories, all by younger writers and all published this decade, indicate the presence of a vibrant and sophisticated writing scene.' - World Literature Today (For this item please quote stock ID 8372) ISBN: 9789627255208

A ground-breaking collection featuring a sparkling array of stories from seven of Hong Kong and Taiwan's leading women writers. Writing from two Chinese experiences, the authors provide a glimpse of changing attitudes and social structures in dealing with topics such as abortion, runaway wives, family and female sexuality. These stories provide ample evidence as to why women writers hold such a prominent position in the contemporary Chinese literary world. 'This fascinating set of tales, all stylishly translated, is a welcome insight into a world that is not always easily approachable for English language readers.' - Sunday Morning Post 'A gem of an anthology, selecting in its short space widely varying literary styles...' - Choice (For this item please quote stock ID 8373) ISBN: 9789627255086

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Winner of the Pegasus Prize for Literature. In this dazzling earthy novel Jia Pingwa presents an unforgettable chronicle of rural China, a world at once utterly alien and uncannily familiar. Turbulence follows the lives of two peasants through the post-Mao years and sets their star-crossed love for each other against the political upheavals of China itself. (For this item please quote stock ID 8545) ISBN: 9780807116876

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This Singapore writer makes her American debut with a maudlin take on doomed love between master and slave. (For this item please quote stock ID 9729) ISBN: 9780446607346

Memories of Peking: South Side Stories portrays the adult world in Peking of the 1930s as seen through the eyes of a little girl. The five sequential stories in the book are well constructed in terms of theme and character development and, as such, can be read as a novel. The stories differ greatly from many other books on life in China, whether they are about the olden times or the present day, in that they do not dwell on politics, nor do they try to make any statements regarding set beliefs of any kind. The stories are simple and direct. Through the eyes and innocent mind of the child, we are let into her world and her feelings and cannot but be moved. The author is well known for her perception and humour, and both these qualities inform her stories. The sense of loss and bewilderment which arouses the child's awareness of the uncertainties of human relationships, even of life itself, and which finally catapults the child away from childhood joys into the sorrows of the adult world is handled with great sensitivity and lyricism. The author: Lin Hai-yin, born in Japan in 1918, is a graduate of the world Journalism College in Peiping. She is a prolific writer and had been the editor of the literary page of United Daily News and The Literary Monthly before establishing her own publishing house. The translators: Nancy C. Ing studied English literature in the West China Union University, Chengtu. She has translated several collections of short stories and is presently editor of The Chinese PEN, the English quarterly of the Taipei Chinese Center, International P.E.N. Chi Pang-yuan is Professor of English at National Taiwan University and Chief Editor of An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Literature (2 volumes). (For this item please quote stock ID 9783) ISBN: 9789622014527

Liu Sola refuses to deal with serious subjects seriously. Or so it seems. Her wild casual style has a rebellious ring to it and her urbanite trend-setting protagonists are particularly appealing to China's younger generation. Behind the insistent frivolity and ephemeral tone, however, lie questions concerning the nature of art and the self-realisation of the artist. A woman of many talents, Liu Sola is a singer, composer and actress as well as a writer. She left China in 1988 and now resides abroad. 'Ms Liu's stories focus on art and artists, but they are really stories about individuals and individualism.' - South China Morning Post (For this item please quote stock ID 9978) ISBN: 9789627255123

Liu Xinwu has been a prominent and acerbic chronicler of Chinese society, as well as one of China's most successful middle-aged writers, Appointed editor of People's Literature, the journal of the Chinese Writers' Association, in 1986, he was dismissed in 1990 due to his role as sympathetic observer of the 1989 protests. These stories reveal his remarkable literary versatility and also provide a fascinating insight into the tensions which have shaped Chinese society in recent decades. 'Illuminates the commonplace incivilities, out of control revolution of rising expectations, and other anomolies that so puzzle tourists and those of us who are otherwise awed that the Chinese live peacefully in such impossibly close quarters.' - Choice '... a welcome addition to the still very scant documentation in English of the realtively more daring literary statements produced in the pre-Tiananmen Incident atmosphere of the late 1980s.' - World Literature Today (For this item please quote stock ID 9991) ISBN: 9789627255062

Liu Yichang has devoted the best part of his long career to serving the cause of literature in Hong Kong. A journalist who arrived in Hong Kong from the wartime capital of Chungking, he founded the influential Hong Kong Literature Monthly. He is still active as its editor and as a translator of Western fiction into Chinese. The stories presented here demonstrate his unfailing inventiveness with form and technique. At the same time, they reveal the pain and pleasures of ordinary lives in present-day Hong Kong. 'These stories ... capture photographically the endlessly fascinating life of a city in constant flux.' - World Literature Today (For this item please quote stock ID 10019) ISBN: 9789627255154

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This selection of poems reflects the variety and quality of the poetry that has emerged in Hong Kong in recent years. The poets all write in modern free verse, but retain links with the traditional Chinese poetic form. Their subjects include Hong Kong's return to China in 1997, the Tiananmen Square incident, and the longing of the immigrant for his homeland, as well as universal themes such as life and death, and the passage of time. Readership: General, students of literature. (For this item please quote stock ID 11686) ISBN: 9780195867862

The Hundred Secret Senses is an exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover along the way. Olivia Laguni is half-Chinese, but typically American in her uneasiness with her patchwork family. And no one in Olivia's family is more embarrassing to her than her half-sister, Kwan Li. For Kwan speaks mangled English, is cheerfully deaf to Olivia's sarcasm, and sees the dead with her 'yin eyes.' Even as Olivia details the particulars of her decades-long grudge against her sister (who, among other things, is a source of infuriatingly good advice), Kwan Li is telling her own story, one that sweeps us into the splendor, squalor, and violence of Manchu China. And out of the friction between her narrators, Amy Tan creates a work that illuminates both the present and the past sweetly, sadly, hilariously, with searing and vivid prose. 'Truly magical ... unforgettable ... this novel ... shimmer[s] with meaning' - San Diego Tribune 'The Hundred Secret Senses doesn't simply return to a world but burrows more deeply into it, following new trails to fresh revelations' - Newsweek (For this item please quote stock ID 13149) ISBN: 9780006550525

A stunning literary achievement, The Joy Luck Club explores the tender and tenacious bond between four daughters and their mothers. The daughters know one side of their mothers, but they don't know about their earlier never-spoken of lives in China. The mothers want love and obedience from their daughters, but they don't know the gifts that the daughters keep to themselves. Heartwarming and bittersweet, this is a novel for mother, daughters, and those that love them. 'Brilliant ... Each story is a fascinating vignette, and together they they weave the reader through a world where the Moon Lady can grant any wish, where a child, promised in marriage at two and delivered at 12, can, with cunning, free herself; where a rich man's concubine secures her daughter's future by killing herself, and where a woman can live on, knowing she has lost her entire life' - Washington Post Book World (For this item please quote stock ID 13150) ISBN: 9780749399573

With the same narrative skills and evocative powers that made her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, a national bestseller, Tan tells the story of Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman unfolding a life's worth of secrets to her suspicious, Americanised daughter. (For this item please quote stock ID 13151) ISBN: 9780007179978

An overseas Chinese woman confronts her past, seeking the origins of the insecurity that now besets her. The clues lead backwards, to her family and to China, to a past that is both obsession and legacy. She is now something of a foreigner even to herself?foreign culture, foreign children, foreign home. An affecting and unusual story about the quest for identity, this is the only Renditions title originally written in English - a borrowed tongue. 'A touching story about a woman protagonist's struggle to find her identity among the different values that have been established for her.' - World Literature Today (For this item please quote stock ID 13188) ISBN: 9789622013810

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Zhang Yan, writing under the pen name Xi Xi, is Hong Kong's most distinguished fiction writer. Her writing has won her many awards, a devoted following in Hong Kong and Taiwan and a growing audience in China A newly enlarged edition of A Girl Like Me by the most distinguished of Hong Kong fiction writers. Xi Xi?s stories have a haunting, often morbid, lyricism, an intense feminine sensitivity, reacting to the unique environment of Hong Kong and its fusion of East and West, and the clash of traditional culture with modern sensitivities. Three new selections have been added in this new edition, including excerpts from the author?s intensely personal story of her battle with cancer, ?Elegy for a Breast?. 'A writer who deserves a place in the international library.' - Far Eastern Economic Review 'Her stories blend sophistication with an unflinching, childlike wonder.' - Islands (For this item please quote stock ID 14771) ISBN: 9789627255192

Xi Xi eloquently conveys the mood of the city during the 1980s in this collection of stories. In the first half of the decade, the Chinese and British governments negotiated Hong Kong's fate, occasioning intense soul-searching and close scrutiny of their society among the general population. The old and the new, the real and the fantastic, Western culture and local perception are skilfully woven together here to create narratives of the hopes, anger and fears which gripped the people of Hong Kong in this crucial period of their history. 'Xi Xi is now one of the most familiar and best translated of the Hong Kong writers; Marvels of a Floating City confirms her versatility in reconceptualizing that harried and hurried corner of the globe.' - World Literature Today (For this item please quote stock ID 14772) ISBN: 9789627255185

Hong Kong in the 1970s - a time of rapid economic growth, and more significantly, of growth in self-confidence and the forging of a local identity. In a disarming style that is uniquely her own, Xi Xi weaves a deceptively child-like narrative against the background of the political and social problems of this complex society. Seldom has a writer captured the spirit of a generation with such apparent simplicity and ease. 'The very first to depict Hong Kong from a fresh... human and emotional point of view... a place to live, to work, and to have fun; and for some, there are not many places in the world that can replace Hong Kong.' - World Literature Today (For this item please quote stock ID 15255) ISBN: 9789627255116

Wang Anyi established herself during the 1980s as one of China's most subtle and imaginative young writers. Her Love Trilogy, which aroused a storm of political criticism mainly because of its sexual frankness, cemented her reputation. Only two volumes of the Trilogy are currently available in English translation. Love In a Small Town is the first volume of this popular author's Love Trilogy, and it is an affecting and probing story about human nature and male-female relationships. Writing at a time when sex was still a taboo subject in China, Wang Anyi has shown uncommon courage as well as insight in her treatment of this tragic tale, and is based on her experiences in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. The book's real innovation is not its sexual explicitness, but its acknowledgement of sexual love as a powerful force in human life. 'Wang Anyi is credited with creating fiction from a woman's point of view.' - Choice 'An affirmation of female sexuality... The author's keen observation of the psychosexual impulses of adolescents is engaging...' - The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs (For this item please quote stock ID 15256) ISBN: 9789627255031

This second volume of the Love Trilogy, like the first, is based on real events the author observed during the Cultural Revolution and her days of manual labour in the countryside. Wang takes the basic facts of this tragic tale of extra-marital love and develops them into a tale of universal power. With her rare insight and great descriptive powers, she reveals the way in which, in a restrictive society, the power of love can turn destructive. 'I think she has interesting things to say about relationships between men and women, and anyone familiar with the Chinese literary scene over the past few years will quickly realise how courageous she is to have tackled this subject so honestly and openly.' - The China Quarterly (For this item please quote stock ID 15257) ISBN: 9789627255093

Here is a comprehensive selection (six short stories and a novella) by China's foremost woman writer. Her works cover a wide range of subjects, her style is fresh and lightly romantic. Whether writing satirically or in a romantic vein, she does not hesitate to tackle current social problems, male supremacy and nepotism. In the title story a young woman contemplates marriage without love and love without marriage and comes to a surprising conclusion. (For this item please quote stock ID 15435) ISBN: 9780835116985

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Shortlisted for the 1999 Queensland Premier?s Literary Awards and NSW Premier?s Literary Awards 2001 'It might be hyperbolic to compare Lau Siew Mei with the Nobel Laureate Garcia Marquez, but Lau deserves every accolade.' - Singapore Business Times 'A fascinating kaleidoscope... a disturbing exploration of myth and reality... In this brilliant fictional hall of mirrors, Lau Siew Mei gives us the many faces of the Chinese diaspora.' - The Bulletin/Newsweek '...a fascinating mirror-maze of politics and passion...' - Australian Book Review (For this item please quote stock ID 16519) ISBN: 9781876040185

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'Brilliant, lyrical, and bawdy' ? The San Francisco Chronicle Red Sorghum chronicles the chaotic years before the first World War, when China warred with Japan. (For this item please quote stock ID 16635) ISBN: 9780140168549

The stories in this book appeared some thirty years ago over a period of time in the magazine Hsien-tai wen hsueh (Modern Literature), which Pai Hsien-yung, the author, and other young writers founded, edited and wrote for in Taiwan. Published in book form in 1971 under the title Taipei jen (Taipei People), the stories in this book quickly established Pai Hsien-yung as a writer with a rare combination of artistic sensibilities, technical equipment, and a deeply moral purpose. The book has since won him a large following in Taiwan and Hong Kong and Chinese communities the world over. In 1982, Indiana University Press published the English translation of the book under the title Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream: Tales of Taipei Characters, which was translated by the author and Patia Yasin, and edited by George Kao. The Chinese University Press decided to publish a bilingual edition for readers to enjoy a paragraph-to-paragraph comparison of these short stories. (For this item please quote stock ID 16912) ISBN: 9789622018594

The emergence of women writers in China's public sphere almost a century ago was closely linked to the development of major cities. Since then, the city has been the chosen milieu of the majority of Chinese writing women. In this collection, five of the most brilliant women writers from Taiwan confront issues facing women born and bred in big cities. They offer some of the deepest explorations into human nature, gender manipulation and the sense of isolation suffered by inhabitants of a fast-changing metropolis. Contents: Selling House & Home (Huang Ying); Fin de Siecle Splendour (Zhu Tianwen); Nineteen Days of the New Party (Zhu Tianxin); The Colours of Love (Xiao Sa), and Fever (Yuan Qiongqiong) 'Taipei is arguably the most distinctive and under-appreciated city in Asia, but these five stories by Taiwanese women authors render it with an immediacy that is positively tactile.' - South China Morning Post (For this item please quote stock ID 16942) ISBN: 9789627255239

Traditional Chinese painting has always been a prize bloom in the garden of painting. It enjoys equal renown with oil painting in the history of art and is keenly sought after by art dealers all over the world. This novel by Wang Weizheng tells of the conflict between a collector and a forger over a precious ancient painting, and the love entanglements among their children. The story is imbued with a strong flavour of legend. (For this item please quote stock ID 16982) ISBN: 9787507102239

The thread common to these stories by Zhou Daxin is the characterisation of the Nanyang people. The stories focus on the lives of three different women in three different eras, each from a different background. ?For Love of a Silversmith?, for instance, is a tale of passion set nearly a century ago. A tragic sequence of events is triggered by a loveless marriage. The loveless match is also explored in ?The Sesame Oil Mill?, whereas ?Out of the Woods? is set in a transition period between old and new ideas, and shows a woman?s determination to break away and try a new way of life. (For this item please quote stock ID 16983) ISBN: 9787507028669

Set in Dunhuang, a famous city on the ancient Silk Road, this highly readable novel blends mystery with a vivid account of the unforgettable experiences of three protagonists. These Chinese tourists happen to meet in Dunhuang and fall into a strange love entanglement. During their visit to the Mogao Grotto they are attracted by the marvellous murals but are unaware that they will soon become involved in its theft. Dunhuang Dreams if full of originality and is both worldly and philosophical. (For this item please quote stock ID 16984) ISBN: 9787507103816

At the height of Mao?s infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for 're-education.' The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of Phoenix mountain, they are made to cart buckets of excrement up and down precipitous winding paths. Their meager distractions include a violin - as well as, before long, the beautiful daughter of the local tailor. But it is when the two discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation that their re-education takes its most surprising turn. While ingeniously concealing their forbidden treasure, the boys find transit to worlds they had thought lost forever. And after listening to their dangerously seductive retellings of Balzac, even the Little Seamstress will be forever transformed. From within the hopelessness and terror of one of the darkest passages in human history, Dai Sijie has fashioned a beguiling and unexpected story about the resilience of the human spirit, the wonder of romantic awakening and the magical power of storytelling. 'Dai Sijie's debut novella is an unexpected miracle - a delicate, and often hilarious, tale set amid the ham-fisted brutalities of the Cultural Revolution.' - Mark Rozzo, Los Angeles Times 'Part fairy tale, part political allegory, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress seduces the reader into its world . . . This is a very wise little story of love and illusion . . . a shrewd commentary on knowledge and power, and an affirmation that the pen is mightier than the sword--or the dollar . . . Dai Sijie's novel is a tribute to art's power of transformation.' - Helen Mitsios, Philadelphia Inquirer (For this item please quote stock ID 16992) ISBN: 9780099286431

A major new novel from the internationally best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses. LuLing Young is now in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is losing the ability to speak up for herself in front of the man she lives with. LuLing can only look on, helpless; her prickly relationship with her daughter does not make it easy to discuss such matters. In turn, Ruth has begun to suspect that something is wrong with her mother: she says so many confusing and contradictory things. Ruth decides to move in with her ailing mother, and while tending to her discovers the story LuLing wrote in Chinese, of her tumultuous life growing up in a remote mountain village known as Immortal Heart. LuLing tells of the secrets passed along by her mute nursemaid, Precious Auntie; of a cave where dragon bones are mined and where Peking Man was discovered; of the crumbling ravine known as the End of the World, where Precious Auntie's bones lie, and of the curse that LuLing believes she released through betrayal. Like layers of sediment being removed, each page unfolds into an even greater mystery: who was Precious Auntie, whose suicide changed the path of LuLing's life? Set in contemporary San Francisco and pre-war China, The Bonesetter's Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit. With great warmth and humour, Amy Tan gives us a mesmerising story of a mother and daughter discovering together that what they share in their bones through history and heredity is priceless beyond measure. (For this item please quote stock ID 16996) ISBN: 9780006550433

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Hong Kong, 1995. Life is surreal, swift, out of control, as the city rushes towards that inevitable moment, the ?handover? to China in 1997. Here are lives and loves in a changing world, chronicled by one of China?s leading novelists. ?Likely to strike a chord with the burgeoning number of Atlantic Hong Kongers who have flocked back to the territory? - Hong Kong Standard ?A welcome new voice into the field of Asian fiction writers . . . Xu Xi rides the wave beautifully? - Far Eastern Economic Review (For this item please quote stock ID 17125) ISBN: 9781387802142

Entangled with the fears that arise when main character Tien-tze decides to migrate to another country to live are dreams that exhort him to seek masters who will help him resolve those fears. When the half-light in his bedroom sends him clues about his masters, Tien-tze embarks on the adventure of a lifetime. He tracks down the esoteric Temple of Journeys and through it enters a world of dragons. In the company of a majestic golden dragon and a scrawny albino one he sets off for the Mountain of Masters. Their quest to find the mountain involves Tien-tze and his new friends in the eternal struggle between good and evil. Sadness and death stalk the adventure but Tien-tze eventually prevails. A fairytale for adults as well as children, Childhood's Journey is the delightful first novel of Malaysian author Wu Tien-tze. He belongs to a new wave of English language writers emerging from Malaysia and Singapore, where the stifling of expression has made the development of amateur literature both necessary and difficult. (For this item please quote stock ID 17245) ISBN: 9789628783045

The source of Song Zude?s love poems is his pursuit and love for life. They offer inspiration and encouragement and are a natural and true expression of his passion for life. (For this item please quote stock ID 17798) ISBN: 9787536034396

'A work of epic proportions . . . carefully researched yet accessible to readers unfamiliar with Taiwanese history.' - Howard Goldblatt, award-winning translator of Chu T'ien-wen's Notes of a Desolate Man 'The translation is excellent...and translating Li's work remedies the omission of an important period and genre of Taiwanese literature.' - Yomi Braester, University of Washington 'One of the most influential classics in Taiwan's contemporary fictional world. The complicated Taiwanese consciousness is laid out before us in this rich historical record.' - Liu Jianmei, University of Maryland 'Li Qiao's Wintry Night trilogy is a landmark of Taiwan fiction and Taiwanese consciousness...This English version is expertly translated.' - World Literature Today An epic spanning more than half a century of Taiwan´s history, this breathtaking historical novel traces the fortunes of the Pengs, a family of Hakka Chinese settlers, across three generations from the 1890s, just before Taiwan was ceded to Japan as a result of the Sino-Japanese war, through World War II. Li Qiao brilliantly re-creates the dramatic world of these pioneers - and the colonisation of Taiwan itself - exploring their relationships with the aboriginal peoples of Taiwan and their struggle to establish their own ethnic and political identities. This carefully researched work of fiction draws upon Li´s own experiences and family history, as well as oral and written histories of the era. Originally published in Chinese as a trilogy, this newly translated edition is an abridgement for English-speaking readers and marks the work´s first appearance in the English-speaking world. It was well-received in Taiwan as an honest and influential recreation of Taiwan´s history before the relocation of the Republic of China from the mainland to Taiwan. Because Li´s saga is so deeply imbued with the unique culture and complex history of Taiwan, an introduction explaining the cultural and historical background of the novel is included to help orient the reader to this amazingly rich cultural context. This informative introduction and the sweeping saga of the novel itself together provide an important view of Taiwan´s little known colonial experience. (For this item please quote stock ID 18626) ISBN: 9780231122016

In his luminous new novel, the author of Waiting deepens his portrait of Chinese society while exploring the perennial conflicts between convention and individualism, integrity and pragmatism, loyalty and betrayal. Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature at a provincial university, has had a stroke, and his student Jian Wan - who is also engaged to Yang's daughter - has been assigned to care for him. What initially seems a simple if burdensome duty becomes more problematic when the professor begins to rave: pleading with invisible tormentors, denouncing his family, his colleagues, and a system in which a scholar is 'just a piece of meat on a cutting board'. Are these just manifestations of illness, or is Yang spewing up the truth? In a China convulsed by the Tiananmen uprising, those who listen to the truth are as much at risk as those who speak it. At once nuanced and fierce, earthy and humane, The Crazed is further evidence of Ha Jin's prodigious narrative gifts. (For this item please quote stock ID 19225) ISBN: 9780099444886

This is the new epic novel by multi-award winning Australian author, Brian Castro. It is perhaps his most important work, a 'fictional autobiagraphy', and loosley based on the rich and painful history of Castro's own extended family in the three great Chinese cities of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Macau, in the middle decades of the last century. 'Shanghai Dancing is a fictional autobiography. Told from an Australian perspective, it is loosely based on my family's life in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Macau from the 1930s to the 1960s. Drawing on memory, stories, photos, and family myths and secrets, the book is about the twists and turns of fiction and personal history. I feel this tale has been lurking in the background for quite some time, finding its way out of the labyrinth through dissimulation and story-making' - Brian Castro. Brian Castro was born in Hong Kong in 1950, and arrived in Australia in 1961. His novels include Birds of Passage (1983), which shared the Australian/Vogel Literary Award; Double-Wolf (1991), winner of the Age Fiction Prize and the Victorian Premier's Award for Fiction; After China (1992), which also won the Victorian Premier's Award; and Stepper (1997), for which he received the National Book Council Banjo Award. He currently resides in the Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne. (For this item please quote stock ID 19788) ISBN: 9780957831186

'With Nanjing 1937 Michael Berry brings to life for English readers an astonishing work, a thoroughly contemporary mixture of steel-edged social observation and transcendent longing reminiscent of, and comparable to, Dostoevsky at his most powerful' ? James Schamus, producer & screenwriter of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Eat Drink Man Woman, and The Ice Storm. 'This book doesn´t just entertain, but chokes you with laughter and tears with its melodrama, romance, satire, and hilarious, in-depth portrayal of a love-crazed couple, all seamlessly woven together with history, tragedy, the sweeping depiction of historical figures and events, and the sinister atmosphere looming over the city of Nanjing before the 1937 Massacre. Ye Zhaoyan is a master storyteller indeed' ? Wang Ping, author of Foreign Devil and Aching for Beauty. 'Ye paints a rich tableau of prewar Chinese politics and social mores. The contrast between the advance of the Japanese and Ding's slow seduction of Ren is both poignant and deliciously ironic' ? Publishers Weekly. Set on the eve of the Rape of Nanjing - when Japanese troops invaded the historic capital city, massacred hundreds of thousands, and committed thousands of rapes - Nanjing 1937 is a tender and humourous story of an impossible love and a lively, detailed historical portrait of a culture on the verge of rupture. The novel centres on the life of Ding Wenyu, a privileged, womanising, narcissistic professor of languages, and traces the course of the affair that transforms him from outlandish rake to devoted lover. Throughout the story, Ding´s often comically unabashed 'romantic offensive' toward a much younger woman, Ren Yuyuan (with whom he brazenly falls in love on the day of her wedding to another man), echoes the acts of war unfolding around him as the Japanese close in, even as he himself remains largely oblivious to the coming onslaught. Known for his stylistic innovation, Ye Zhaoyan creates tragic and endearing characters while vividly capturing the daily life of 1930s wartime China. Now translated into English for the first time, informed by meticulous historical research and tinged with the author´s unique brand of humour, Nanjing 1937: A Love Story is a work of fiction unlike any ever seen. This epic story of a man and a woman who discover love in a time of fear and uncertainty announces the arrival of major voice on the international literary scene. (For this item please quote stock ID 20126) ISBN: 9780231127547

'A polished and lively translation of a rollicking burlesque novel originally published in 1984...Delightfully irreverent' ? Phillip F. C. Williams, World Literature Today. '[A] ribald, scandalous little Taiwanese social satire' ? Publishers Weekly. In this lively translation of Wang Chen-ho´s ribald satire, a Taiwanese village loses all perspective - and common sense - at the prospect of fleecing a shipload of lusty and lonely American soldiers. A rotund, excitable high school English teacher receives word that 300 GIs are coming from Vietnam for a weekend of R and R. He persuades the owners of the Big 4 brothels that they will all take in more U.S. dollars if the pleasure girls can speak a little English; his plan is to train 50 specially selected prostitutes in a 'Crash Course for Bar Girls'. The teacher, Dong Siwen, enlists the eager support of local Councilman Qian and the managers of such elite establishments as Night Fragrances and Valley of Joy. But what begins as a simple plan to teach a few English phrases quickly becomes absurdly elaborate: courses will include an 'Introduction to American Culture', a crash course on global etiquette, and a workshop in personal hygiene taught by Dr. 'Venereal' Wang. One of the most carefully wrought narratives in contemporary Chinese literature, Rose, Rose, I Love You will appeal not only to readers of fiction but also to those interested in Taiwanese identity and the effects of Westernisation on Asian society. (For this item please quote stock ID 20127) ISBN: 9780231112031

'The first English-language anthology to provide a truly comprehensive view of poetry in Taiwan' ? Los Angeles Times Book Review (Best Books of 2001) 'Sensitive fidelity to denotative and connotative meanings of the original Chinese and smooth, often inspired English. The 50-page introduction by Yeh is superb - a comprehensive, nuanced scholarly overview of the historical social, political, cultural, and linguistic forces that combine to make Taiwan a unique example of what Chinese poetry may become when visions of past, present, and future mingle with issues of local identity, national politics, and international influences ... Strongly recommended' ? Choice. Taiwan has evolved dramatically from a little-known island to an internationally acclaimed economic miracle and thriving democracy. The history of modern Taiwanese poetry parallels and tells the story of this transformation from periphery to frontier. Containing translations of nearly 400 poems from 50 poets spanning the entire 20th century, this anthology reveals Taiwan in a broad spectrum of themes, forms, and styles: from lyrical meditation to political satire, haiku to concrete poetry, surrealism to postmodernism. The in-depth introduction outlines the development of modern poetry in the unique historical and cultural context of Taiwan. Comprehensive in both depth and scope, Frontier Taiwan beautifully captures the achievements of the nation´s modern poetic traditions. (For this item please quote stock ID 20129) ISBN: 9780231118477

One of the most-talked about works of fiction to emerge from China in recent years, this novel about an urban youth 'displaced' to a small village in rural China during the Cultural Revolution is a fictionalised portrait of the author´s own experience as a young man. Han Shaogong was one of millions of students relocated from cities and towns to live and work alongside peasant farmers in an effort to create a classless society. Translated into English for the first time, Han´s novel is an exciting experiment in form - structured as a dictionary of the Maqiao (pronounced ma-chow) dialect - through which he seeks to understand and translate the local life and customs of his strange new home. Han encounters an upside-down world among the people of Maqiao: a con man dupes his neighbours into thinking that he has found the fountain of youth by convincing them that his father is in fact his son; to be 'scientific' is to be lazy; time and relationships are understood using the language of food and its preparation; and to die young is considered 'sweet', while the aged reckon their lives to be 'cheap'. As entries build one upon another, Han meditates on the ability of a waidi ren (outsider) to represent the ways of life of another community. In this light, the Communist effort to control the language and history of a people whose words and past are bound together in ineluctably local ways emerges as an often comical, sometimes tragic exercise in miscommunication. Named one of the Top 100 Works of Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction by Yazhou Zhoukan (Asia Weekly); winner - Shanghai Literary Prize; winner - Best Novel in Taiwan, China Times Prize. (For this item please quote stock ID 20185) ISBN: 9780732280017

Taiwan's most innovative science fiction writer presents three tales of intrigue, espionage, betrayal, political strife, time travel, and Chinese history and mysticism. After thousands of years of civil unrest and countless wars, the weary Huhui people of Sunlon City have once again succumbed to a ruthless and overpowering enemy. In Five Jade Disks, the first book in the trilogy, the imperialistic Shan have enslaved the inhabitants of Sunlon City and imposed a harsh martial order. As the Shan fight to retain control of the restless Huhui natives, an unstable rebel alliance prepares to win back its homeland. Amidst the confusion of revolt, Miss Qi, a determined young girl, emerges as an unlikely leader. With the help of her friends and the loyal Green Snake Brotherhood, Miss Qi discovers that an ancient cult and its insidious and unusually powerful leader may hold the key to the rebels' victory - or may yet be the cause of their undoing. As she rushes to put the pieces together, the rebels, divided by internal factions, strive to band together in a heroic attempt to overthrow the Shan. The story continues in Defenders of the Dragon City. The Shan have been defeated, but the victory celebrations of the Huhui are quickly brought to an end. After deserting Sunlon City, the Shan regroup and return for one final and bitter attempt to destroy the weakened rebel forces. During their exile, the Shan turn their aggressions against the indigenous races of the Huhui planet, a colorful mix of peaceful tribes resembling serpents, eagles, and leopards. Forced into the war to save their remaining territory, the indigenous peoples join the Huhui in their continuing struggle against the Shan. The third novel, Tale of a Feather, opens with images of chaos and devastation. The conflict with the Shan has left the city in flames, and refugees are fleeing in droves through the main gates. Taking advantage of the turmoil, a ruthless dictator assumes control of the weak interim government and begins a treacherous campaign to eliminate his adversaries. In this volatile atmosphere, Miss Qi continues her desperate search to discover the origin of the mysterious Bronze Statue Cult and come to terms with the dark power it wields over her people. The trilogy, first published in Taiwan in the late 1980s and early 1990s and widely considered to be a modern classic, is now presented for the first time in English and in a single volume. In these allegorical tales, Chang confronts some of the most serious and divisive issues of our time, including the burden of history and the ravages of oppression, racism, and ethnic displacement. (For this item please quote stock ID 20187) ISBN: 9780231128520

'For some years there has been an upsurge of scholarly interest in these tales of knights-errant that can fly, scam artists that can be conned, and cats that can solve murder mysteries. Now a general audience can read these stories and appreciate how China's popular imagination in the 20th century just got "curiouser and curiouser"' - Jeffrey Kinkley, St. Johns University. In the first half of the 20th century, urban Chinese regularly lost themselves in tales of scandalous affairs, tender romances, and splendid acts of martial gallantry - standard reading fare on Saturdays among city dwellers craving entertainment and escape. Openly disdained by many intellectuals for their frothy content and maudlin appeal, these tales have been largely ignored in histories and anthologies of modern Chinese fiction both in China and the West. Recently, however, increasing attention has been paid to this fiction and its place in the vibrant tradition of Chinese writing during a period of rapid cultural change. The stories selected and translated here invited Chinese readers to enter worlds at once connected to and removed from their familiar surroundings. Today, the stories have become a record of what urban life was actually like, as well as what readers then wished it to be. Like Chinese from decades past indulging in a pleasurable hour or two on a Saturday afternoon, readers of English can now enjoy and learn from these diverse stories, expertly translated. The volume's afterword provides valuable insights into this long-overlooked area of modern Chinese literature. Timothy Wong is professor of Chinese at Arizona State University. (For this item please quote stock ID 20691) ISBN: 9780824826901

Isolated yet open, restricted yet free, the island of Taiwan has evolved into a dynamic, democratic crossroads of cultures and influences. Taiwanese poetry has assimilated influences not only from classical Chinese culture, but from Europe, Japan, and America. Today, it is a lively blend of indigenous, Hokkien, Hakka, and other ethnic and language groups, exploring diverse themes and forms, from the lyric to the postmodern. The volume also features a remarkable portfolio of photographs by Sergio Goes documenting a performance by the Iona Contemporary Dance Theatre of The Mythology of Angels. Plus an interview with Cuban American poet Ricardo Pau-Llosa; new stories from Vietnam and the Philippines; a full-length play by New Zealand poet-playwright Lynda Chanwai-Earle; reviews of current books; and much more. Manoa 15:1 - New Writing from America, the Pacific, and Asia (For this item please quote stock ID 20694) ISBN: 9780824827434

Ancient China, Han Dynasty. A slave girl saves the life of an ageing dragon and escapes her brutal master. Pursued by a ruthless dragon hunter, the girl and the dragon cross China carrying with them a mysterious stone that must be protected. This is the story of a young slave girl who believes she is not worthy of a name but finds within herself the strength and courage to make this perilous journey - and do what must be done. (For this item please quote stock ID 20754) ISBN: 9781876372194

There is a proverb in China, hu kou ba ya, literally 'pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth', used to describe any extremely difficult task. When Shao Wei first arrived in the United States at age 31, her desire to write poems in English seemed almost impossible. Pulling a Dragon's Teeth, a first stop on the successful journey toward that goal, is filled with the rhythms and visions of this exciting young poet. Shuttling between her childhood in a small mountain city on the shores of the Yangtze River (soon to be flooded the the Three Gorges Dam project) and adulthood in Manhattan, Shao Wei captures the pains and joys of tradition and displacement familiar to any immigrant. Blending fairy tales, New York images, family stories, and the universal rites of passage associated with growing up, she paints a vibrant canvas of passion and imagination. Winner of the 2002 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize (For this item please quote stock ID 21136) ISBN: 9780822958352

Beginning in the mid-1980s, almost every improtant contemporary Western work began to be translated into Chinese, including radical avant-garde fiction. Postmodernist Chinese authors began to present their readers with wildly experimental stories that challenged the conventions of culture and ideology. This volume gathers some of the most exciting and innovative of these writers, many of whom are appearing in English for the first time. (For this item please quote stock ID 21150) ISBN: 9780824827991

A collection of six unforgettable stories from Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian. This moving and thought-provoking collection deals with relationships, family, the political scene in China and exploration of the self. With the exception of In An Instant, all the stories were written in China in the early 1980s and published in Chinese in a colleciton called Gei wo laoye mai yugan (Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather) by Lianhe Press in Taipei in 1989. In An Instant was written in Paris in October 1990 but not published until 1996 in the collection Zhoumo sichongzhou, after Soul Mountain had been published in early 1990. This beautifully presented collection is a good first introduction to the work of Gao Xingjian - short, sweet and hightly accessible. (For this item please quote stock ID 21652) ISBN: 9780732278854

Here is a comprehensive selection (six short stories and a novella) by China's foremost woman writer. Her works cover a wide range of subjects, her style is fresh and lightly romantic. Whether writing satirically or in a romantic vein, she does not hesitate to tackle current social problems, male supremacy and nepotism. In the title story a young woman contemplates marriage without love and love without marriage and comes to a surprising conclusion. (For this item please quote stock ID 21718) ISBN: 9787507100327

With penetrating wit and an eye for telling detail, Karen Shepard captures the reunion of an autocratic French-Chinese photographer, Celine Arnaux, with her emotionally and culturally displaced Asian-American daughter and granddaughter. The story returns the women to a family cabin in Virginia, where Celine photographed her granddaughter Cameron for a famous series of child portraits. Squeezed between grandmother and granddaughter is Cam's unlucky mother, Sumin. Into their sealed world come two outsiders: a journalist who is writing a feature about Celine; and Alice, a poised and appealing six-year-old mainland Chinese girl temporarily entrusted to Cam. To each of the adults, Alice represents a fresh chance, a chance to be less self-centered than they had been in the past. But deciding Alice's future also releases a subsurface ruthlessness that has characterized the family's history since the Cultural Revolution and forces the exposure of a long-guarded secret. An entrancing tale of custody, artistic creation, and the ferocity with which we sometimes sacrifice loved ones to gain our own ends. An Empire of Women introduces a striking talent. (For this item please quote stock ID 21799) ISBN: 9780425184561

From the highly acclaimed author of the Thomas Cook prizewinner, Red Dust, comes a deliciously dark and funny satirical novel about life in modern China. Written in the aftermath of Tiananmen Square, The Noodle Maker is a virtuoso piece of 'red humour'- a darkly funny novel about the absurdities and cruelties of life in modern China. Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood-donor meet for dinner. They make unlikely friends, the one tortured by the desire for intellectual excellence, the other more concerned with the down-to-earth practicalities of life. Nevertheless, the writer enjoys the blood-donor's company, perhaps because, as the richer of the two, he provides the dinner. Over the course of one especially gastronomic and drunken evening, the writer moves from complaints about his latest commission - the composition of an epic account of a Communist hero - to recount the stories he would really like to write, had he the freedom. A young man buys an old kiln from an art school and opens a private crematorium, delighting in his ability to harass the corpses of police officers and Party secretaries; an illegal migrant scrapes a living writing letters for the illiterate, but becomes so immersed in the lives of others that he loses a grip on his own; a heartbroken actress performs a public suicide by stepping into the jaws of a wild tiger, watched nonchalantly by her ex-lover; a businessman, desperate for a son, tries to abandon his retarded daughter in open fields and public parks but keeps going back for her. These are the characters that really interest the writer, their lives pulled and pummelled by fate and politics, as if they are balls of dough in the hands of an all-powerful noodle maker. (For this item please quote stock ID 22734) ISBN: 9780701176051

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~Manoa: New Writing from America, the Pacific, & Asia

~This volume highlights contemporary literature from throughout the Pacific hemisphere, featuring prose by writers from the Philippines, Malaysia, the People's Republic of China, Korea, and the U.S., including Native Americans and Pacific islanders. Among these are Lysley Tenorio, Andrew Lam, Robert Barclay, Bay Anapol, and Eddie Chuculate from the U.S.; Lakambini Sitoy from the Philippines; Kim Yong-ha from Korea; Zhu Wenyin from the PRC; Huzir Sulaiman from Malaysia; Manjushree Thapa from Nepal; and Marcelino Freire from South America.

~Frank Stewart has published twelve books and is the general editor of Manoa. Bruce Fulton is director of publications of the International Korean Literature Association. Eric Gamalinda is a poet and fiction writer who teaches at New York University. Karen Gernant is professor emerita of Chinese history at Southern Oregon University in Ashland. Leigh Saffold is the recipient of the 2003-2004 Grace K. J. Abernethy Fellowship in Publishing. Arthur Sze is a poet and translator who teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Alfred Yuson is a prominent poet, novelist, and advocate for the arts in Manila. (For this item please quote stock ID 23274) ISBN: 9780824829063

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~Banned in China for its candid exploration of a young girl's sexual awakening yet widely acclaimed as being 'the first novel of 'tough youth' in China' (Beijing Today), Beijing Doll cuts a daring path through China's rock and roll subculture. This cutting edge novel - drawn from the diaries the author kept throughout her teenage years - takes readers to the streets of Beijing where a disaffected generation spurns tradition for lives of self expression, passion, and rock and roll. Chun Sue's explicit sensuality, unflinching attitude towards sex, and raw, lyrical style break new ground in contemporary Chinese literature. (For this item please quote stock ID 23700) ISBN: 9780349116792

In the tradition of Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress comes an earthy, wildly imaginative and tragi-comic love story set in a remote mountain village in northwestern China. Xiezi (meaning 'peg') is the eldest of four girls - tall, athletic and dark skinned. Living with her downtrodden mother and her tyrannical party official father, she daily suffers the scorn of being born female, and if this isn't enough, must also live with the tragic deaths of her three younger brothers. Next door lives Dandan, born a boy but, according to ancient tradition, raised by his grandmother as a girl till the age of 12. After sufferig endless schoolyard taunts for his feminine ways, he is then initiated into 'manhood' in an ancient and bizarre ritual. Of course 12 years as a girl can't be shaken off so easily, and Dandan struggles with his new identity. As the madness of the Cultural Revolution conspires with mother nature and sweeps through the village, Xiezi, Dandan and their families suffer and triumph, laugh and cry, and try as best they can to make sense of the new world order. And then, incredibly, after flood and famine, violence and hypocrisy, denunciation and recrimination, a tender love blooms between two outcasts - as yin and yang are miraculously fused. Yo Yo is the pen name of Liu Youhong, one of China's most significant expat female writers. She fled China some 20 years ago, gaining refugee status first in New Zealand, before moving to Australia, the US and then the UK where she currently resides with her husband, poet Yang Lian. The author of many movellas, stories and numerous articles, Yo Yo currently teaches Chinese language and writing at Eton College in Windsor, England. (For this item please quote stock ID 23882) ISBN: 9780732280833

Ambitious, sensuous, filled with intriguing characters, panoramic settings, and high drama, Red Poppies opens a window on Tibet, dispelling many of the popular myths of a pacifistic society peopled by devout worshipers. Red Poppies is the story of the wealthy Maiqi family: its powerful chieftain, his Han Chinese wife, his first son and heir, and his second, 'idiot' son, the novel's narrator and unlikely hero. The time is the 1930s, the setting a stone fortress overlooking all that the family rules on the arid plains of inner Tibet, with its scattered populace of peasant farmers, merchants, and comical local lamas. A feud breaks out with a neighbouring chieftain; an emissary of the Chinese Nationalists comes to the Maiqis' aid with the tools of modern warfare. In exchange, fields of poppies, valuable in the Nationalist-backed heroin trade, are to be planted instead of grain in a deal that enriches the Maiqis' lavish lifestyle and earns them dangerous enmity. (For this item please quote stock ID 24413) ISBN: 9780618340699

A Panda Book. This anthology contains four pieces by the well-known Shanghai writer, Lu Xing'er. With feminine sensitivity, she has observed the excitement, confusion, pain and joy of a generation, vividly reflected in these careful portraits of the lives of ordinary Chinese people. Her protagonists are women from all walks of life and her concern for their fate has made a deep and lasting impression on her readers. Lu Xing'er was born in Shanghai in 1949. In 1968, she was sent to do farm work in the Great Northern Wilderness, and in 1978 entered the Central Drama Institute. Since 1974 she has published a dozen short stories. She has also produced two novels, A Kiss to the Century and Fairytales in the Grey Building. (For this item please quote stock ID 24453) ISBN: 9787119033587

A Panda Book. This compilation features 121 stories by the best Chinese writers from the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan, expertly translated by Harry J. Huang (also known as Freeman J. Wong). Besides promoting deep thought and revealing fascinating aspects of human nature, each story is also a window into an ancient and rich Chinese culture. From the millennium-old masterpieces to the contemporary ones, each narrative possesses sheer beauty and poetry. A biographical sketch of each author is included, along with a brief glossary of special Chinese terms and a list of difficult pinyin. (For this item please quote stock ID 24454) ISBN: 9787119038810

A Panda Book. In this collection are six stories by the well-known writer, Chi Zijian, from China's North-east. Set against a unique background of the Heilongjiang River valley, the stories describe the people, customs and atmosphere in the North-east, her deep impressions of her childhood spent with her grandmother and her keen sense and observation of life. Chi Zijian's descriptions are worked in a style that is at once simple and straightforward, vigorous and intelligent, vivid and lifelike. (For this item please quote stock ID 24557) ISBN: 9787119036649

A Panda Book. Cheng Naishan captivates her readers with stories about the lives of the Shanghai capitalists who have weathered thirty years of political vicissitudes, as well as the lives and thinking of their children. Through the depiction of family life and romance, Cheng Naishan skillfully brings out the life and paradoxes of Shanghai, China's largest metropolis. Cheng Naishan was born in Shanghai in 1946 and graduated from the English Department of Shanghai's Education Institute. In 1979 her first work, The Song Mother Taught Me to Sing, was published in Shanghai Literature and a collection of her stories, The Death of the Swan, was published by the Jiangsu People's Press in 1982. In September 1983 she joined the Shanghai Writers Association and in the winter of 1990, she settled in Hong Kong. She's now a member of the Hong Kong Writers Council. (For this item please quote stock ID 24559) ISBN: 9787119033594

A Panda Book. This collection introduces five short stories by the popular woman writer Chi Li. Set in the large industrial city of Wuhan, Hubei Province, the stories focus on the lives of young people as they deal with questions of love and marriage, and everyday problems such as job-hunting, housing, family planning and bringing up children. The detailed and earthy descriptions conjure up a vivid picture of life in China today. Chi Li, born in Hubei Province in 1957, is the founder of the 'Neo-realistic Group' and is one of the most popular writers in China today. A national award winner, she has written a large number of stories, many of which have a growing foreign readership. (For this item please quote stock ID 24560) ISBN: 9787119036632

A Panda Book. The eleven stories included here mark Tie Ning's writing career, varying as they do in theme and style, treating youth and age and country and city life. Ah, Fragrant Snow, June's Big Topic and The Red Shirt Without Buttons won national literary prizes in 1984. Born in Beijing in 1957, Tie Ning went to the countryside to experience rural life in 1975. In 1979 she was transferred to the Baoding Branch of the Chinese Federation of Art and Literature and in 1984 to the Creative Writing Workshop of Hebei Province. She is now vice chairperson of the Chinese Writers Association and chairperson of the Hebei Provincial Writers Association. Since 1980, Tie Ning has published Path in the Night and other collections of short stories and novellas. (For this item please quote stock ID 24561) ISBN: 9787119036656

Following his runaway best seller Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie gives us a delightful new tale of East meets West: an adventure both wry and uplifting about a love of dreams and the dream of love, and the power of reading to sustain and inspire the spirit. After years of studying Freud in Paris, Mr. Muo returns home to introduce the blessings of psychoanalysis to 21st-century China. But it is his hidden purpose ? to liberate his university sweetheart, now a political prisoner ? that leads him to the sadistic local magistrate, Judge Di. The price of the Communist bureaucrat?s clemency? A virgin maiden. And so our middle-aged hero Muo, a Westernised romantic and sexual innocent himself, sets off on his bicycle in search of a suitable girl. Muo?s quest will take him from a Chengdu mortuary to a rural panda habitat, from an insane asylum to the haunts of the marauding Lolo people. Along the way, he will lose a tooth, his virginity, and his once unshakable faith in psychoanalytic insight. But his quixotic idealism will not waver, even as he comes to see that the chivalrous heart may have room for more than one true love. Dai Sijie?s exuberant, touching ? and most unlikely ? romance is a triumph of unbridled imagination, a celebration of the yearning spirit. Dai Sijie is a Chinese-born filmmaker and novelist who has lived and worked in France since 1984. His first novel, Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress, was an overnight sensation; it spent 23 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. (For this item please quote stock ID 24613) ISBN: 9780701177393

Gao Xingjian, 2000 winner of the Nobe1 Prize for Literature, approaches his writing with a strong conviction of the purity of literature and of its dignity as art. The result is what he calls 'Cold Literature': it is personal, detached, apolitical and antipathetic to noise, yet it is also compelling and capable of engaging the reader with an enthralling cogency. The present anthology contains many gems of Gao?s works, which present an all-round picture of Gao and his many talents, as novelist, playwright, poet, painter and theorist. They lead the reader into a world that is uniquely his, the quest for the self and its salvation, the depth of his understanding of the tragedy of modern man and finally, the dignity of being human. Cold Literature also brings together for the first time two English translators of Gao Xingjian?s works, Gilbert C. F. Fong and Mabel Lee. Some of the translations in this collection are newly produced, and others have been revised, so that the beauty and musicality of Gao?s language are revealed in Chinese as well as in English. Gilbert Fong is currently Chair and Professor at the Department of Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, while Mabel Lee is Honorary Associate Professor in Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. (For this item please quote stock ID 25093) ISBN: 9789629962456

A bewitching novel about memory, loss and the search for redemption, from one of China?s freshest voices. Coral and her frisbee-obsessed boyfriend, Red, live in a cramped tower block in the megalopolis that is modern-day Beijing. The epitome of disaffected youth, their already fragile existence is shattered by the arrival of a mysterious fishy package. As the smells of the sea wash over her, Coral is transported back to a traumatic childhood dominated by solitude, fear and shame. Coral was raised by silent grandparents among the stern and superstitious fishermen of the remote village of Stone. Shunned from birth as a bringer of ill fortune, and exposed to the malevolent forces of a closed-off society, she immersed herself in the minutiae of the landscape around her. At fifteen, she escaped to the big city and shut the door on the darkness of her past. As the narrative darts between the forbidding sprawl of Beijing and the rhythms of a tiny coastal village, our narrator struggles to navigate a path through painful and hidden memories of a time spent helpless, cold and alone. But when a sick old man appears on Coral?s doorstep, the past and present shockingly converge, and she is forced to confront the secrets of her history in order to realize her dreams for the future. Beautifully poetic, lyrical and haunting, yet infused with a quiet and gentle humour, Village of Stone is a startling and bewitching novel from one of contemporary China?s freshest voices. Guo Xiaolu was born in a fishing village in the south of China in 1973. She was awarded an MA in Film from the Beijing Film Academy and has worked as a novelist, screenwriter and filmmaker. She now lives in England. (For this item please quote stock ID 25128) ISBN: 9780099459071

An unprecedented historical novel, this book presents a riveting, profoundly intimate portrait of Nanjing and its people during the first six days after its fall to the Japanese Army during the winter of 1937-38. It probes deeply into the souls of victims and perpetrators of war atrocities, and hails its unassuming heroes and heroines. It is a powerful allegory against the folly of war and the horrors of genocide. A native of Nanjing, China, Shouhua Qi came to the United States in 1989. His writings have appeared in Feminist Studies, The Connecticut Review, Rain Flower, and many other publications. He is Associate Professor of English at Western Connec- ticut State University, and the author of Bridging the Pacific: Searching for Cross-Cultural Understanding Between the United States & China and more than ten other books. (For this item please quote stock ID 25326) ISBN: 9781592650415

A Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tibetan woman who died during childbirth, shares a tent with a nomad who is walking to a sacred mountain to seek forgiveness for sleeping with his daughter, meets a silversmith who has hung the wind-dried corpse of his lover to the walls of his cave, and hears the story of a young female incarnate lama who died during a Buddhist initiation rite. In the thin air of the high plateau, the divide between fact and fiction becomes confused and the man is drawn deep into an alien culture he knew nothing about, and which haunts his dreams. Famously banned in China in 1987, Stick Out Your Tongue, is the book that set Ma Jian on the road to exile, and still makes it difficult for him to publish his work in China today. Written shortly after the journey to Tibet he describes so vividly in his prize-winnning travel memoir Red Dust, it is an extraordinary collection of stories about an extraordinary place - a picture of Tibet that is both enchanting and horrifying, violent and beautiful, perverse and seductive. Ma Jian has written a new afterword for the book that explains it's title (it is what a doctor says to an ill patient when looking for a diagnosis), how it came to be written and something about the complex relationship between China and Tibet. This is the first publication in English of an important work of Chinese literature that has had a huge influence on other writers. (For this item please quote stock ID 26032) ISBN: 9780701178062

Bian Zhilin (1910-2000), one of the most original voices in 20th-century Chinese poetry, was known for his modern sensibility and intense lyrical appeal. His style combines the techniques of French Symbolist poets Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarmé and Valéry and English language poets T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden on the one hand, and the best of Chinese poetic tradition on the other. His lifelong experimentation with the poetic form and his theoretical explorations conbributed significantly toward the formal development of vernacular poetry. The present unique collection, comprising almost Bian's entire corpus, gives full play to his delicate craftsmanship. Mary M. Y. Fung, the editor and translator, lectured on translation and modern Chinese literature at the University of Hong Kong for over 30 years. David Lunde, the co-translator, directed the creative writing programme at the State University of New York College at Fredonia for 34 years. (For this item please quote stock ID 26179) ISBN: 9789627255338

Wong's debut collection of 11 linked stories sparsely chronicles four generations of a Chinese-American family. A woman's reluctant journey from mainland China to Hong Kong as she escapes the invading Japanese frames the brief, absorbing opening section, 'Mai Wah'. Dreams shape several stories in the second section, in which Mai Wah's grown grandson, Wei, and his family adapt to their new lives in Honolulu. In 'A Nice Chinese Girl', Wei dreams of owning a car in order to properly date Marie, who dreams of owning a restaurant; in 'Open House', Wei's cousins dream of buying a new home in the suburbs. The best stories deal with Michael, Wei's son, inching toward accepting his homosexuality. In 'The Chinese Barber', Michael develops an infatuation with an American boy he meets at a mall; in 'Ordinary Chinese People', he attempts suicide, distraught over the inattentiveness of his track coach. Irony fuels the final section, 'Cultural Revolution', in which Wei returns to China to retrace his grandmother's escape for Michael, who now eschews everything Chinese. Wong's choppy prose works well in conveying his characters' difficulty with English, but it robs these finely crafted stories of rich detail and prevents them from achieving the lyrical moments the material suggests. (from Publishers Weekly) (For this item please quote stock ID 26258) ISBN: 9780892551972

'Li's writing is beautifully spare and controlled' - Times In this extraordinary first collection, Li Yiyun brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. In 'Immortality', winner of the Paris Review prize, a young man bears a striking resemblance to the dictator, and so finds a strange kind of calling. In 'Extra', first published in the New Yorker, a Chinese woman, alone in middle age, befriends a young boy who has become an outcast in a remote country school. In their friendship, we see how love can begin to overcome the strictures that dominate their lives. In turn horrifying and breathtakingly lyrical, Li Yiyun - a new and talented young Chinese writer - confronts the silence that dominated the history of her country, and illuminates how mythology, politics, history and culture intersect with personality. She leaves us with an enduring vision of a country undergoing tremendous change. 'Li Yiyun's confidence as a storyteller lends her fiction a traditional air, but there's nothing old fashioned about her perspective ... When I've sampled other recent Chinese writing, I've had a sense of western publishers being seduced by the novelty of it all, snapping up authors with dramatic histories and slim talents. Li Yiyun is the real deal ... Li Yiyun has the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries to be a truly fine writer' - Michel Faber, Guardian 'Great narrative skill . . . demonstrates that the best way to learn about people in a foreign culture is through good fiction' - Irish Times 'Li has a remarkable talent for telling the story of the whole of China through apparently insignificant lives' - New Statesman (For this item please quote stock ID 27060) ISBN: 9780007196630

A Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tibetan woman who died during childbirth, shares a tent with a nomad who is walking to a sacred mountain to seek forgiveness for sleeping with his daughter, meets a silversmith who has hung the wind-dried corpse of his lover to the walls of his cave, and hears the story of a young female incarnate lama who died during a Buddhist initiation rite. In the thin air of the high plateau, the divide between fact and fiction becomes confused and the man is drawn deep into an alien culture he knew nothing about, and which haunts his dreams. Famously banned in China in 1987, Stick Out Your Tongue, is the book that set Ma Jian on the road to exile, and still makes it difficult for him to publish his work in China today. Written shortly after the journey to Tibet he describes so vividly in his prize-winnning travel memoir Red Dust, it is an extraordinary collection of stories about an extraordinary place - a picture of Tibet that is both enchanting and horrifying, violent and beautiful, perverse and seductive. Ma Jian has written a new afterword for the book that explains it's title (it is what a doctor says to an ill patient when looking for a diagnosis), how it came to be written and something about the complex relationship between China and Tibet. This is the first publication in English of an important work of Chinese literature that has had a huge influence on other writers. (For this item please quote stock ID 27216) ISBN: 9780099481331

Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Laureate in Literature for 2000. He is the only Chinese writer to achieve this international acclaim. This collection contains two plays. Escape was written in 1989 in the wake of the June 4 Student Movement in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. With the publication of the play, Gao was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party, dismissed from his state appointment and had his house in Beijing confiscated. Perhaps because of this controversy, Escape has become the most performed of all of Gao?s plays: it has been staged in Sweden, Germany, Belgium, France, Poland, Japan, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, and Canada. Wherever it was staged, it was given a locally relevant intepretation and was well received, which lends credence to Gao?s claim of the universality of the play he describes as the tragedy of modern man. The Man Who Questions Death is the latest of Gao?s plays. It is also one of the most exciting and powerful. Here Gao condemns the commercialization of modern art and ponders on life and the inevitability of death. At once sad and comical, the play traverses anger, cynicism, resignation, release, and total freedom, culminating in what he terms ?black absurdity." No other two plays illustrate more of Gao Xingjian¡¦s ideas on life and art. In Escape and The Man Who Questions Death, he describes the encroachment of politics and commercialism on the individual and the arts, and uses this as the basis to comment on the existential challenges facing mankind. This collection is a must read for anyone who wants to appreciate Gao Xingjian as dramatist and thinker. The plays are also perfect examples of Gao Xingjian¡¦s accomplishment as a dramatist and his idea of the theater. In them we can experience for ourselves the now familiar Gaoian monologue and get to understand his concept of the neutral actor. Born and educated in China, Gao studied French literature at the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute between 1957-1962. He became a resident playwright at the Beijing People's Art Theatre after the Cultural Revolution. His plays have been performed around the world, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, the Ivory Coast, the United States, France, Germany and other European countries. His works are trend-setting and have created much controversy. He settled in France in 1987 and continues his playwriting. Gao Xingjian was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 1992. Gilbert C. F. Fong, has written many articles on modern and contemporary Chinese literature and literary translation. Presently he is an associate professor at the Department of Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and is heading a research project on the history of Hong Kong drama. He is also the editor of the monographs Studies on Hong Kong Drama and Plays from Hong Kong, and of the journal Hong Kong Drama Review. (For this item please quote stock ID 27425) ISBN: 9789629963088

From the author of the bestselling THE GOOD WOMEN OF CHINA comes the uplifting story of three sisters who, like so many migrant workers in today's China, leave their peasant community to seek their fortune in the big city. The Li sisters don't have much education, but one thing has been drummed into them: their mother is a failure because she hasn't managed to produce a son, and they themselves only merit a number as a name. Women, their father tells them, are like chopsticks: utilitarian and easily broken. Men, on the other hand, are the strong rafters that hold up the roof of a house. Yet when circumstances lead the sisters to seek work in distant Nanjing, the shocking new urban environment opens their eyes. While Three contributes to the success of a small restaurant, Five and Six learn new talents at a health spa and a bookshop/tearoom. And when the money they earn starts arriving back at the village, their father is forced to recognise that daughters are not so dispensable after all. Xinran has become known for her wonderful ability to take readers to the heart of Chinese society. In this new book she tells not only a human story, but the story of a city. As the Li sisters discover Nanjing, so do we: its past, its customs and culture, and its future as a place where people can change their lives. (For this item please quote stock ID 27722) ISBN: 9780701180423

Peony in Love is a powerful and haunting love story steeped in the richness and magic of 17th century China. For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, the lyrics from the opera, The Peony Pavilion, mirror her own longings. Like the heroine in the drama, Peony too is cloistered and from a wealthy family, trapped like a good-luck cricket in a bamboo-and-lacquer cage. Though raised to be obedient, Peony is a rebel, secure in her beauty but wise enough to know it is fleeting. As Lisa See's haunting new novel takes readers back to 17th century China, after the Manchus seize power and the Ming dynasty is crushed, we follow Peony's unforgettable journey of love and destiny, desire and sorrow. Steeped in traditions and ritual, this story brings to life another time and place, but the heart of the novel is Peony, who longs to direct her own life, figure out who she is, and search for a love that is visible, but just beyond reach. About the Author: Lisa See is the author of the bestselling Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. She lives in Los Angeles. (For this item please quote stock ID 27774) ISBN: 9780747582489

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Since its publication in 1933, Midnight has enjoyed immense popularity in China, and has become a classic of realist fiction worldwide. Set in Shanghai, Midnight follows the central figure Wu Sun-fu, an industrial capitalist, and details the violence and corruption in Nationalist China in the 1930s. Midnight is the most famous work by Shen Yanbing (1896-1981), better known by the pen name Mao Tun. He was a member of the young intelligentsia that created a truly vernacular Chinese literature in the early twentieth century, and later worked as Mao Zedong's secretary and Culture Minister until 1964. (For this item please quote stock ID 29537) ISBN: 9780887270994

Sold by her uncle in 1907 to the First Salon of Gifted Girls, a reputable brothel, sixteen-year-old Cassia is plucked from the ranks of servant girl by a powerful client. Power Chang is the boss of the fearsome Shanghai Triad. In spite of her large feet and pendulous breasts, both unbound, Cassia swiftly becomes his favorite mistress and enjoys her first passionate encounters as well as her first taste of luxurious living. The story follows Cassia after the violent death of Power Chang and her subsequent rise to "godmother" of Shanghai. She not only seduces the next Triad boss, Huang, after he hears her opera troupe, but also his lacky, Yu, who replaces the murdered Huang as the next Triad leader. This novel will appeal to anyone interested in China, triad politics and history, and the position of women as sexual slaves to men in Shanghai's houses of ill repute. About the author Hong Ying grew up in the 1960s in the slums of Chongquing on the Yangtze River in China. An author and poetess, she is best known in the English-speaking world for her novels K: The Art of Love, Peacock Cries, Summer of Betrayal, and her autobiography, Daughter of the River. "Like all Hong Ying's work, K is written with a wonderfully intense simplicity-it's tough, uncompromising, direct and tense with strong emotion, but also full of poetry and grace."-Andrew Motion (For this item please quote stock ID 29546) ISBN: 9780714531502

Cheng Naishan has captivated her readers with stories about the present-day lives of the Shanghai capitalists who have weathered thirty years of political vicissitudes, as well as the lives and thinking of their children. The Blue House is one such story describing the turmoils going through Gu Chuanhui's mind when he learns that his grandfather was Gu Fuxiang, the former steel giant in Shanghai who owned the Blue House. The Poor Street tells how a young teacher tries hard to overcome her timidity to help the people living in a formerly poor street who, although now well-off materially, remain poor culturally. Daughters' Tribulations is a story about three sisters and their diverse pursuits of love and marriage. Through the depiction of family life and romance, Cheng Naishan skilfully brings out the life and paradoxes of Shanghai, the country's largest metropolis. (For this item please quote stock ID 5373) ISBN: 9787507100402

'Creates a subtle reading of the harshness of contemporary China.' - Publishers Weekly 'I recommend this book to general readers ... and to students and scholars.' - China Review International, Spring 1997 To travel through these stories is to cross a landscape of stunning beauty and terrific cruelty, where expectations are subverted, where moral certainties are shattered, where gorgeously wrought surfaces beguile at the same time that acts of incredible brutality horrify. It is no wonder that Yu Hua's stories caused a sensation when they first appeared in the 1980s. His work represents a sophisticated and often disturbing revolution in the Chinese literary tradition, reminiscent of the fiction of modernists like Kafka, Kawabata, Borges, and Robbe-Grillet, but drawing inspiration from several strains of traditional Chinese narrative as well. This is the first collection of short fiction by Yu Hua to appear in English. It takes us on a haunting and harrowing journey from classical China through the Cultural Revolution and into the new era of economic reform, exploding along the way our preconceived notions of what Chinese literature and culture are all about in the 1990s. (For this item please quote stock ID 14076) ISBN: 9780824818173

Wang Anyi, a talented young woman born in 1954, represents the new generation in China today. Her stories deal with the problems of young people whose lives were disrupted by the cultural revolution, or who struggle with the new realities of China. Their values differ greatly from those of the older generation. Both Wang's characters and her writing style set her apart from traditions set by leading authors such as her own mother, Ru Zhijuan. (For this item please quote stock ID 16850) ISBN: 9787507100310

'A brilliant kaleidoscope drawn from colourful fragments of widely divergent worlds . . . A literate novel, rich with references to Chinese and Western literature' - Publishers Weekly Winner of the 1991 British Comparative Literature Association translation competition for Chinese. (For this item please quote stock ID 20252) ISBN: 9780824816179

'[A] lively English version of one of Taiwan's key literary landmarks' - World Literature Today. 'A first-rate work of art ... Family Catastrophe is ideal for adoption by college literature courses that transcend the boundaries of the Western canon' - China Review International, Spring 1997. 'The first English publication of this important novel by Wang Wen-hsing is bound to be seen as a major event in the scholarly community of Chinese literary studies' - Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang, University of Texas, Austin. Wang Wen-hsing caused a sensation in Taiwan in 1972 with publication of Family Catastrophe, his first full-length novel. Many critics were outraged, called it socially irresponsible, morally corrupt, and stylistically irrational, but the novel weathered its controversial reception to become what is now widely regarded as a masterpiece in modern Chinese fiction and the benchmark of Taiwan's Modernist movement. Often described as Joycean, Family Catastrophe is significant for its stylistic and linguistic experimentation as well as for its disturbing and universal themes. It appears here in English for the first time. (For this item please quote stock ID 20255) ISBN: 9780824816186

Chinese Whispers is the British name of a game called Telephone in America. According to a certain 'Professor Hoffmann' in his book Drawing Room Amusements (1879), 'the participants are arranged in a circle, and the first player whispers a story or message to the next player, and so on round the circle. The original story is then compared with the final version, which has often changed beyond recognition.' Chinese Whispers is also the superb title poem in this new collection of sixty-three poems by John Ashbery. In these works, as perhaps in much poetry, the verbal nucleus that is the original incitement toward a poem undergoes twists and modulations before arriving at its final form. The changes are caused not by careless listening to the speech of others, but by endlessly proliferating trains of ideas that a single word or phrase ignites in the poet's mind. These alter the face of the poem even as they contribute to it and become part of its fabric. As in a sea change the poem has been transformed, often into 'something rich and strange,' but the strangeness is that of thought being opened up, like a geode, to reveal unexpected facets of meaning. John Ashbery has been called 'America's greatest living poet' by Harold Bloom. Now in his seventy-fifth year, he continues to write poetry that is dazzlingly inventive and original. (For this item please quote stock ID 23599) ISBN: 9780374122577

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Of Mountains and Seas is one of the most spirited and fun-filled plays written by Gao Xingjian, 2000 Nobel Laureate in Literature. Based on the ancient text The Classic of mountains & Seas, the play re-enacts the classical world of Chinese mythology, traversing the creation of humans to the beginning of Chinese dynastic history. It is a world of magical powers and child-like wonderment, peopled with ghosts, ghouls and monsters, and comprised of the famous Battle of Zhuo Lu between Chi You and the Yellow Emperor, the excitement of Yi the Archer shooting down nine of ten suns, and the theft of no-death drug by Chang E, who then flies away to the moon and becomes the Moon Goddess. Of Mountains and Seas is also an ambitious attempt by Gao Xingjian to construct a grand narrative of Chinese mythology, wrestling it back from the contaminations of ideology, politics and didacticism so as to restore its authenticity. With this innocence and purity of origin, Gao insists, the play offers a glimpse of the collective consciousness of the Chinese race and human nature in general. (For this item please quote stock ID 29599) ISBN: 9789629963750

The World Regained by Chinese woman writer Ke Yan takes the reader inside a Chinese work\study school for the re-education of juvenile delinquents. The author vividly recreates life within the school, the atmosphere of confinement and release. The tough, tradition-bound teachers rely on discipline to reform their criminal charges, generating an attitude of mutual suspicion. Into this tense and confrontational arena comes a young female teacher with a new idea: a willingness to communicate with the teenagers and to help lead them towards a better future. This novel explores a part of China seldom touched by other writers - the minds of restless, sometimes disenchanted youth. Drawing upon her own experiences, the author evokes a fictional world that is very real, populated with characters facing a complex struggle to understand and adapt in modern society. (For this item please quote stock ID 8776) ISBN: 9787119014548

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Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia, where he discovers life of apparent idyllic simplicity amongst the nomads and the wild wolves who roam the plains. But when members of the People's Republic swarm in from the cities to bring modernity and productivity to the grasslands, the peace of Chen's solitary existence is shattered, and the delicate balance between humans and wolves is disrupted. Only time will tell whether the grasslands' environment and culture will ever recover...Wolf Totem has been a sensation ever since it shot to the top of the Chinese bestseller charts in 2004. A beautiful and moving portrayal of a land and culture that no longer exists, it is also a powerful portrait of modern China and a fascinating insight into the country's own view of itself, its history and its people. About the author Jiang Rong was born in Jiangsu in 1946. His father's job saw the family move to Beijing in 1957, and Jiang entered the Central Academy of Fine An in 1966. His education cut short by events in China, the twenty-one-year-old Jiang volunteered to work in Inner Mongolia's East Ujimchin Banner in 1967, where he lived and labored with the native nomads until the age of thirty-three. He took with him two cases filled with Chinese translations of Western literary classics, and spent eleven years immersed in personal studies of Mongolian history, culture, and tradition. In particular, he developed a fascination for the mythologies surrounding the wolves of the grasslands, spending much of his leisure time learning the stories and raising an orphaned wolf cub. In 1978 he returned to Beijing, continuing his education at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences one year later. Jiang worked as an academic until his retirement in 2006. Wolf Totem is a fictional account of life in the 1970s that draws on Jiang's personal experience of the grasslands of China's border region. (For this item please quote stock ID 29764) ISBN: 9787535436696

As a teenager during China?s Cultural Revolution, Ha Jin served as an uneducated soldier in the People?s Liberation Army. Thirty years later, a resident of the United States, he won the National Book Award for his novel Waiting, completing a trajectory that has established him as one of the most admired exemplars of world literature Ha Jin?s journey raises rich and fascinating questions about language, migration, and the place of literature in a rapidly globalizing world?questions that take centre stage in The Writer as Migrant, his first work of nonfiction. Consisting of three interconnected essays, this book sets Ha Jin?s own work and life alongside those of other literary exiles, creating a conversation across cultures and between eras. He employs the cases of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Chinese novelist Lin Yutang to illustrate the obligation a writer feels to the land of his birth, while Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov?who, like Ha Jin, adopted English for their writing?are enlisted to explore a migrant author?s conscious choice of a literary language. A final essay draws on V. S. Naipaul and Milan Kundera to consider the ways in which our era of perpetual change forces a migrant writer to reconceptualise the very idea of home. Throughout, Jin brings other celebrated writers into the conversation as well, including W. G. Sebald, C. P. Cavafy, and Salman Rushdie?refracting and refining the very idea of a literature of migration. Simultaneously a reflection on a crucial theme and a fascinating glimpse at the writers who compose Ha Jin?s mental library, The Writer as Migrant is a work of passionately engaged criticism, one rooted in departures but feeling like a new arrival. About the Author National Book Award winner Ha Jin writes about the tribulations of life in Chinese society with dark humour and an economical but effective prose style. He has turned out remarkable novels, short stories, and poetry -- all the more remarkable considering he only began writing in English in the late 1980s. (For this item please quote stock ID 30331) ISBN: 9780226399881

Spanning 40 years from the declaration of the People?s Republic in 1949, Zhang Wei?s The Ancient Ship is a multi-generational saga set in the fictional northern Chinese town of Wali. The town is responsible for the production of the popular White Dragon glass noodles, a tradition that has remained unchanged for generations. Yet ripples of political turbulence reach even this remote backwater: the Great Leap forward, the famine of the early ?60s, the Cultural Revolution ? all make themselves felt. But the foreground is largely domestic. Through a temporally circular narrative, Zhang describes the fate of three families, the Sui, the Zhao and the Li, whose struggles to find a path through a time of upheaval in China see the tranquil landscape of their town irrevocable altered. (For this item please quote stock ID 30343) ISBN: 9780007286157

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The 21st Century Chinese Literature series aims to introduce contemporary Chinese literature in English, French and other language to readers all over the world. 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 authors of these new short stories, living in developing and changing, yet ancient nation, have strived to describe all that is happening in and around themselves, to give genuine dynamic expression to the intricate recent experiences of the Chinese people. Through the power of their words readers will be able to catch glimpses of the real, complex and living China, as well as other possibilities for all humanity. The 21st Century Chinese Literature series can be regarded as the continuation of Panda Books, though its selection and editing methods vary greatly from the old series. All the three volumes of new short stories were edited by Chinese scholars, with in-depth understanding and research in contemporary Chinese literature, whose judgment and views are highly respected among Chinese writers and readers. They accomplished this editing work independently, conducive to this new series better reflecting the highly diversified spiritual quests and artistic creativity of contemporary Chinese literature. (For this item please quote stock ID 30375) ISBN: 9787119054384

This book introduces twelve short stories selected from the Yushi Mingyan, Jingshi Tongyan and Xingshi Hengyan Anthologies edited by the late Ming Writer Feng Menglong (1574-1646). Drawn largely from real-life experiences and folklores, these stories offer to students a rich source of information concerning the customs, beliefs and everyday lives of ordinary people in Ming society. This selection is thus made with a view to stimulating students to learn more about Chinese literature and culture. Teachers will welcome this reader as a valuable resource that combines language learning with an introduction to Chinese literature. Besides, the use of vernacular Chinese in these stories makes the book a bridging text between Classical and Modern Chinese.

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> Each story is presented, on facing pages, with a list of words and phrases still in use today.
>Each story is accompanied by an exercise, with discussion topics that encourage students to sharpen their writing and speaking skills.
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A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit portrays the unconventional love between a Chinese social reformer and an American avant-garde artist. Hu Shi was a student at Cornell when he first met Edith Clifford Williams. They exchanged some 300 letters between 1914 and 1962; these, alongside Hu?s diaries, poems and other correspondence, provide the substance of this book. In Williams, Hu met his intellectual match. She helped him reconcile his self-image as an independent thinker with his acquiescence to an arranged marriage. Best known for his contribution to China?s Literary Revolution, Hu?s experimental vernacular poetry was partly inspired by his exposure to Williams?s avant-garde art.
In reconstructing their romance, the authors deftly exemplify the dilemmas which confronted a generation of Chinese intellectuals, particularly those educated in the West. Although Hu shared his contemporaries? patriotic hopes for China, he never subscribed to the prevailing ideology. Sustained by Williams?s unflinching honesty, he advocated John Dewey?s pragmatic approach, one which has recently regained acceptance in China.
Although the romantic ardor dwindled, the two retained, in each other?s eyes, an image of their idealistic youth.
About the Authors
Susan Chan Egan is an independent scholar based in Santa Barbara, California. She is the author of A Latterday Confucian: Reminiscences of William Hung 1893?1980 and co-translator of The Song of Everlasting Sorrow.
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'A conversation across centuries and a deft exploration of the wondrous and sad inscrutability of the human heart.' - The New York Times 'At turns both poignant and brutal, the novel captures both the era's intense desire for a better life and the atrocities against outsiders who dared to break the rules.' - Travel & Leisure 'A beautifully published novel meant to be bought by Asian and Caucasian alike.' -Washington Post 'Geling Yan . . . writes with such haunting imagery that the reader is gently drawn into her world . . . the novel works.' - San Francisco Chronicle In the late 1860s, a young woman named Fusang is kidnapped from China and sold into prostitution in San Francisco's Chinatown. Chris, her first customer, is twelve years old. For weeks, he has spied on her; now, he meets the object of his obsession and can only gaze at her, stunned by her beauty. The Lost Daughter of Happiness is an epic and moving love story of individuals intoxicated with one another and yet repeatedly separated by prejudice and mistrust. The relationships are full of passion and rage, and the novel chronicles the lives of the main characters over decades against a back-drop of social turmoil - the anti-Chinese hysteria that plagued San Francisco. Fusang is an extraordinary character, both powerful and resigned; Chris finds himself torn between the security of his staid, white world and the sensual allure of hers. And then there is the gangster Da Yong, who is rumoured to carry daggers dipped in ancient poison, who wears a ring on every finger, and who sells his naked photograph, which is used as a talisman - evil to ward off evil. He enters Fusang's life with brutal force, but when his world and Chris's eventually collide, both men turn out to be far different than they seemed. Geling Yan, one of China's most acclaimed novelists, plays with familiar 'exotic' imagery, such as bound feet and incense smoke and opium dens, in startling and ironic ways. She creates scenes of intense eroticism that will remind readers of Marguerite Duras's The Lover. She tells a riveting story that is both inevitable and surprising. And she employs a modern narrator who actually speaks to the characters about what has changed in the world - and how much hasn't. Written in a haunting voice that explores the present's bitter truths through the prism of the past, The Lost Daughter of Happiness is a mesmerizing and provocative work of fiction. 'Geling Yan stands as an eminent writer from the Chinese diaspora. Her fiction has gained a high reputation in and outside China. The Lost Daughter of Happiness is her major novel, which combines myth and history and opens a new perspective on the American immigrant experience. It is an ambitious, eloquent, and unique book.' - Ha Jin, author of Waiting Geling Yan was born in Shanghai and joined the People's Liberation Army as a dancer at age twelve. In the late 1970s she began writing as a war correspondent and published her first novel (of five to date) in China in 1985. In 1989 she left China for the United States and earned an MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago. Two of her works have been made into films, including Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl, directed by Joan Chen. A collection of her short fiction has been published in English translation. The Lost Daughter of Happiness is her first novel to be published in English and in other languages worldwide. Cathy Silber, the translator, teaches Chinese language and literature at Williams College. (For this item please quote stock ID 19754) ISBN: 9780571207664

A searing look at the changing face of China as seen from the perspective of dissidents and their families. A masterful novel that communicates in a voice and conscience common to locals and Westerners alike. (For this item please quote stock ID 19787) ISBN: 9781569471814

New Concepts - 101 Chinese Stories Enlightening Your Life is full of life wisdom, to reveal the profound life mysteries, leading the reader update the concept in the shortest time and to create a new life.

In today's world of competition, the competitiveness of science and technology, competition, talent competition, but in the final analysis is the concept of competition. The concept of advanced and backward, determines a person, an organization, a country, the world as a whole process of development. Wonderful story of an array, once deep "Idea: to change the life of the 101 Chinese story," Life is rich in wisdom, to reveal the mysteries of all kinds of life, leading the reader quickly in the shortest time to update the concept and embarked on a successful path, and create new life.

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'Interweaves the biting satire of a political prisoner's story with the pastoral, tenderly erotic lyricism of a folk tale.' -Publishers Weekly (For this item please quote stock ID 4219) ISBN: 9780824816117

'[Goldblatt's] retelling of the tale sparkles seamlessly...A whale of a tale' - New Asia Review. 'Smooth and exuberant, Goldblatt's impeccable translation allows readers to see why Gu Hua is regarded as one of the most intriguing storytellers in contemporary Chinese literature' - David Der-wei Wang, Columbia University. Virgin Widows is a poignant and disquieting novel that unfolds the stories of two women whose lives, despite being separated by nearly a century, reveal a disturbing similarity. First published in China in 1985, it appears now in English for the first time. Gu Hua is one of China's favorite and most influential novelists. He has lived near Vancouver since 1988. (For this item please quote stock ID 7623) ISBN: 9780824818029

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This first English edition of Chen Fang?s best-selling novel provides an unparalleled view of corruption in China. Officially banned due to its controversial content, the book is based on events that led to the jailing of Politburo member and Mayor of Beijing, Chen Xitong, in the late 1990s. The tale focuses on a small team of government investigators who set out to look into the mysterious suicide of a leading politician and find themselves in a complex and dangerous web of financial scams, bribery and high-level cover-ups. Leading Chinese writer, Chen Fang is the former chief editor of Chinese Community (Hua Ren Shi Jie), a major state-sponsored journal supervised by China?s United Front Bureau and former assistant cheif editor of culture magazine Star (Xing Guan Yue Kan), jointly owned by the

Voted one of the 25 Favorite Books of The Village Voice, 1998 'Frank Chin is destined to go down in Asian American literary history. To the many readers he provokes and excites, the question is what does 'go down' mean?' - Stephen H. Sumida 'Uncompromising; impudent; in-your-face; Frank Chin is one of the great essayists of our time.' - Ishmael Reed 'Chin gathers lost legends, children's stories, personal histories, tall tales, and polemics and cobbles them together into a startling, comprehensive theory of Asian American culture with an ancient past and a global reach.... The only fearless writer in Asian America is as vital now as he ever was. When the melting pot boils over again, Asian American literature will find itself back at the crossroads. Frank Chin, the trickster-devil, will be waiting.' - The Village Voice Frank Chin is coeditor of two groundbreaking anthologies of Asian American writing, Aiiieeeee! and The Big Aiiieeeee! He is the author of two widely acclaimed novels, Donald Duk and Gunga Din Highway, and a collection of stories, The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co., for which he won the American Book Award. 'America doesn't want us as a visible native minority. They want us to keep our place as Americanized foreigners ruled by immigrant loyalty. But never having been anything else but born here, I've never been foreign and resent having foreigners telling me my place in America and America telling me I'm foreign. There's no denial or rejection of Chinese culture going on here, just the recognition of the fact that Americanized Chinese are not Chinese Americans and that Chinese Americans cannot be understood in the terms of either Chinese or American culture, or some 'chow mein/spaghetti' formula of Chinese and American cultures, or anything else you've seen and loved in Charlie Chan.' - from Confessions of a Chinatown Cowboy (For this item please quote stock ID 5491) ISBN: 9780824819590

'A brilliant kaleidoscope drawn from colourful fragments of widely divergent worlds . . . A literate novel, rich with references to Chinese and Western literature' - Publishers Weekly Winner of the 1991 British Comparative Literature Association translation competition for Chinese. (For this item please quote stock ID 9979) ISBN: 9780824816513

As a cultural construct, gender is fictional and imagined, yet gender is also real in its ideological and representational effects on the formation of self and identity. The fiction behind the fictional, which many accept as truth, is what's most intriguing. Critiquing the fictive nature of socially accepted gender values, this volume unravels the strategies writers and filmmakers adopt in their (de)construction of the gendered self in three different Chinese communities: mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Writing from the vantage points of film, literature, and gender studies, contributors adapt western gender discourse to map the construction and representation of self and identity in the social contexts of contemporary China.

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Xu Xing's fiction fused Daoist traditions with Western nihilism. These short stories ont he surface are facetious, but are in fact strident indictments of contemporary Chinese society. The stories in this volume are On a Side Road; Martyr; Variations Without a Theme and Story of a City. (For this item please quote stock ID 19880) ISBN: 9780958652629

Stories of Old Peking portrays the adult world in Peking of the 1930s as seen through the eyes of a little girl. The five sequential stories in the book are well constructed in terms of theme and character development and, as such, can be read as a novel. The stories differ greatly from many other books on life in China, whether they are about the olden times or the present day, in that they do not dwell on politics, nor do they try to make any statements regarding set beliefs of any kind. The stories are simple and direct. Through the eyes and innocent mind of the child, we are let into her world and her feeling and cannot but be moved. The author is well known for her perception and humor, and both these qualities inform her stories. The sense of loss and bewilderment which arouses the child's awareness of the uncertainties of human relationships, even of life itself, and which finally catapults the child away from childhood joys into the sorrows of the adult world is handled with great sensitivity and lyricism. (For this item please quote stock ID 19088) ISBN: 9789629960124

A novel of a Chinese scholar?s life in China from the 1950s to the 1980s, about his joys and sorrows, his ordeals, and his work once reform commenced. He displays a Taoist lack of interest in fame, wealth and position, and a Confucian devotion to learning and moral integrity. A novel about the lasting value of Chinese culture that educates and nourishes the protagonist. (For this item please quote stock ID 16022) ISBN: 9787560018874

Tomur Dawamat is one of the most distinguished statesmen from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region as well as being a poet. Footprints of My Life is his sixth collection of poems. This Chinese edition of this collection stunned domestic cultural circles when it was publicated by the Writers Press in February 2000. His poetry is characterised by a wide range of themes, a profound yearning for patriotism, national unity and human progress, and the Uygur customs. His nostalgic, patriotic and humanistic enthusiasm is not confined to a narrowly specified place but also to an enlightened ideal and spiritual world. (For this item please quote stock ID 26573) ISBN: 9787105053858

A Panda Book. In this collection are seven stories by Wang Anyi - the most popular Chinese woman writer in 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 only the flavour of the Chinese earth, but a lapsed moment in time. Her stories serve as a good place to start reading contemporary Chinese literature for foreign readers who are interested in China. Born in 1954 in Fujian Province, the daughter of the noted woman author Ru Zhijuan, Wang Anyi represents the generation of Chinese writers whose formal education was disrupted by the 'cultural revolution' and who were sent to work in the countryside. In 1978 she returned to Shanghai to work as an editor of the magazine Childhood. She has won several awards in national short-story competitions. Her story, The Destination, won a national award as one of the best short stories of 1982, Lapse of Time and Xiaobao Village won national awards for the best novellas, and her full-length novel, Everlasting Regret, won the Fifth Mao Dun Literary Prize. (For this item please quote stock ID 24558) ISBN: 9787119033600

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 authors of these new short stories, living in this rapidly developing and changing, yet ancient nation, have strived to describe all that is happening in and around themselves, to give genuine dynamic expression to the intricate recent experiences of the Chinese people. Through the power of their words you will be able to catch glimpses of the real, complex and living China, as well as other possibilities for all humanity, including yourself. (For this item please quote stock ID 30376) ISBN: 9787119054360

'Superstition, murder, abuse ? Chairman Mao is a collection of pointers to a Chinese heart of darkness.' ? The Nation 'A fresh collection of twenty-one tales about love, superstition, sex, murder and honour which takes readers into worlds the Chinese government has long tried to hide from public view.' - The Washington Post Book Review 'In contrast to the utopian official literature of Communist China, the stories in this wide-ranging collection marshal wry humor, entangled sex, urban alienation, nasty village politics and frequent violence. . . . [Goldblatt] lets the stories speak for themselves, which, fortunately, they do, quietly and effectively.' - Publishers Weekly 'Indeed he would not be amused. . . . Goldblatt introduces fiction that reflects the turmoil brought about by Tiananmen and the money-making ethic found in China today. . . . Deftly translated.' - Library Journal (For this item please quote stock ID 16634) ISBN: 9780802134493

~Post-Mao China produced two parallel discourses on the human subject in the New Era (1976-1989). One was an autonomous, Enlightenment humanist self aimed at replacing the revolutionary paragon that had dominated under Mao. The other was a more problematic subject suffering from either a symbolic physical deformity or some kind of spiritual paralysis that undermines its apparent normalcy. How do we explain the stubborn presence, in the literature of the 1980s and 1990s, of this crippled agent who fails to realise the humanist autonomy envisioned by post-Mao theorists? What are the anxieties and tensions embedded in this incongruity and what do they reveal?

~This illuminating and original critical study of the crippled subject in post-Mao literature offers a detailed textual analysis of the work of five well-known contemporary writers: Han Shaogong, Can Xue, Yu Hua, Mo Yan, and Jia Pingwa. The author investigates not only the literary characters within the texts, but also their creators - real subjects in history, Chinese writers whose own agency was being tested and established in the search for a new subjectivity.

~By diving beneath the euphoria of the 1980s and the confusion and frustration of the 1990s, these critical readings offer a unique perspective with which to gauge the complexity of China's quest for modernity and a fuller understanding of the self's multi-faceted experience in the post-Mao era.

~Rong Cai is assistant professor of Chinese at Emory University. (For this item please quote stock ID 22643) ISBN: 9780824828462

This book brings together fresh research from experts on contemporary Chinese poetry, offering readable and provocative treatments of many of the most important poets of our age.
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Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia, where he discovers life of apparent idyllic simplicity amongst the nomads and the wild wolves who roam the plains. But when members of the People's Republic swarm in from the cities to bring modernity and productivity to the grasslands, the peace of Chen's solitary existence is shattered, and the delicate balance between humans and wolves is disrupted. Only time will tell whether the grasslands' environment and culture will ever recover...Wolf Totem has been a sensation ever since it shot to the top of the Chinese bestseller charts in 2004. A beautiful and moving portrayal of a land and culture that no longer exists, it is also a powerful portrait of modern China and a fascinating insight into the country's own view of itself, its history and its people. About the author Jiang Rong was born in Jiangsu in 1946. His father's job saw the family move to Beijing in 1957, and Jiang entered the Central Academy of Fine An in 1966. His education cut short by events in China, the twenty-one-year-old Jiang volunteered to work in Inner Mongolia's East Ujimchin Banner in 1967, where he lived and labored with the native nomads until the age of thirty-three. He took with him two cases filled with Chinese translations of Western literary classics, and spent eleven years immersed in personal studies of Mongolian history, culture, and tradition. In particular, he developed a fascination for the mythologies surrounding the wolves of the grasslands, spending much of his leisure time learning the stories and raising an orphaned wolf cub. In 1978 he returned to Beijing, continuing his education at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences one year later. Jiang worked as an academic until his retirement in 2006. Wolf Totem is a fictional account of life in the 1970s that draws on Jiang's personal experience of the grasslands of China's border region. (For this item please quote stock ID 29217) ISBN: 9780670029570

'Zhu Lin's vivid stories display an impressive variety of tones and styles.... A distinguished work from a very accomplished contemporary' - Kirkus Reviews. 'While the elegant stories in Snake's Pillow & Other Stories would be a welcome addition to any course in world literature or short fiction, they do not need to be solely relegated to literature or Asian studies classes. Using literature to reinforce the concepts taught in the social sciences is an excellent way to expand students' knowledge of Asia in introductory classes like sociology and political science. Zhu Lin's stories portray the social and political realities of China in a way that no textbook description can approximate. They would serve as a provocative opening for discussion on the role of women in Chinese society, the life of the peasant, the social consequences of political zealotry, and the organisation and tyranny of small communities. Both as literature and a realistic depiction of life, these stories add immeasurably to our knowledge of China' - Education About Asia, Winter 1999. Jiangnan, that part of east-central China watered by the Yangzi River, is the ironically Edenic setting for these six powerful tales of devotion, betrayal, and defilement. Zhu Lin, a uniquely angry female voice on China's literary scene, takes a particular interest in the plight of young women whose exceptional qualities condemn them to exploitation by men. No other contemporary Chinese writer renders the hostility of rural society toward women in such stark and ultimately tragic terms. Serpents tyrannize the innocent in this fictional Jiangnan garden. The title story refers to a fragrant, blood-red flower known as the snake's pillow, which symbolizes an innocent girl betrayed and violated by a male figure of authority. Immersed in the heady and sensual imagery of the natural world, Zhu Lin's female protagonists invite comparisons not only with Eve but also with Thomas Hardy's Tess. Zhu Lin has said of her fiction that its purpose is to 'summon the souls' of readers who have lost themselves in the turbulence of a society in the transition to modernity - and then to restore these lost souls to the bodies they have left. An evocation of both flesh and spirit, these Jiangnan stories give voice to the complex and disturbing experience of women in a changing society. As a teenager, Zhu Lin, the daughter of a Shanghai intellectual, was relocated to Anhui Province, one of China's poorest, where she remained for six years. (For this item please quote stock ID 14077) ISBN: 9780824817169

'Zhu Lin's vivid stories display an impressive variety of tones and styles.... A distinguished work from a very accomplished contemporary' - Kirkus Reviews. 'While the elegant stories in Snake's Pillow & Other Stories would be a welcome addition to any course in world literature or short fiction, they do not need to be solely relegated to literature or Asian studies classes. Using literature to reinforce the concepts taught in the social sciences is an excellent way to expand students' knowledge of Asia in introductory classes like sociology and political science. Zhu Lin's stories portray the social and political realities of China in a way that no textbook description can approximate. They would serve as a provocative opening for discussion on the role of women in Chinese society, the life of the peasant, the social consequences of political zealotry, and the organisation and tyranny of small communities. Both as literature and a realistic depiction of life, these stories add immeasurably to our knowledge of China' - Education About Asia, Winter 1999. Jiangnan, that part of east-central China watered by the Yangzi River, is the ironically Edenic setting for these six powerful tales of devotion, betrayal, and defilement. Zhu Lin, a uniquely angry female voice on China's literary scene, takes a particular interest in the plight of young women whose exceptional qualities condemn them to exploitation by men. No other contemporary Chinese writer renders the hostility of rural society toward women in such stark and ultimately tragic terms. Serpents tyrannize the innocent in this fictional Jiangnan garden. The title story refers to a fragrant, blood-red flower known as the snake's pillow, which symbolizes an innocent girl betrayed and violated by a male figure of authority. Immersed in the heady and sensual imagery of the natural world, Zhu Lin's female protagonists invite comparisons not only with Eve but also with Thomas Hardy's Tess. Zhu Lin has said of her fiction that its purpose is to 'summon the souls' of readers who have lost themselves in the turbulence of a society in the transition to modernity - and then to restore these lost souls to the bodies they have left. An evocation of both flesh and spirit, these Jiangnan stories give voice to the complex and disturbing experience of women in a changing society. As a teenager, Zhu Lin, the daughter of a Shanghai intellectual, was relocated to Anhui Province, one of China's poorest, where she remained for six years. (For this item please quote stock ID 20257) ISBN: 9780824815493

Please Don`t Call Me Human is a prime example of the cultural irreverence, humour, and biting satire that have won Wang Shuo a huge fan base in China ranging from the business community to factory workers, students, and the unemployed. The complex plot o Please Don`t Call Me Human involves an assortment of Chinese bureaucrats who dream of preserving China`s national pride through a bizarre Olympics-style competition; it features an anti-heroic slacker pedicab driver from Beijing, an encounter with Buddha, and a sex-change operation, and that`s only the start.'It`s over the top, all right, but it`s also a hoot,' raves Kirkus. This novel contains all of Wang`s trademarks in polished, knifepoint-sharp glory: mercilessly brutal satire, sardonic responses to contemporary culture, and mockery of Chinese authority and pride are somehow combined to becom 'unnervingly funny,' says Jackie Pray of USA Today. The masterful English translation by renowned translator Howard Goldblatt allows readers to enjoy an accurate look at what Wang is accomplishing with his unorthodox literary weapons. (For this item please quote stock ID 16636) ISBN: 9780887274121

Xiao Hong is considered by many to be China's first feminist novelist. Originally published in Chinese in 1936, The Field of Life and Death (1936) is an unflinching collection of vignettes set in the rural China in which Xiao Hong grew up. Though it was initially seen as an attack on Japanese imperialism, the primary concern of this novel is the objective portrayal of the lives of rural people brutalized by poverty and war. Also included in this collection is Tales of Hulan River (1940), Xiao Hong's famous wryly humorous and bleakly poignant account of another village and the always difficult, sometimes brief lives of its citizens. These reminiscences deftly convey the deep and pervasive misogyny of Chinese society at the time. This revised version of the notable translations by Howard Goldblatt features Lu Xun's original preface (in translation), a new translator's preface, and a revised introduction by Goldblatt. (For this item please quote stock ID 29536) ISBN: 9780887273926

These twelve short stories vividly bring to life the daily dramas of Chinese men and women who are starting to feel the influence of the West while still immersed in a society that attempts to control their every move and thought. As his characters wrestle with the petty injustices and deeper heartbreaks of their constricted lives, Ha Jin celebrates their irrepressible humanity with the understated humour and disarmingly simple narrative voice that have won him widespread acclaim. In the title story, the head of security at a factory is shocked, first when the hansomest worker on the floor proposes marriage to his homely adopted daughter, and again when his new son-in-law is arrested for the 'crime' of homosexuality. In 'After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town,' the workers at an American-style fast food franchise receive a hilarious crash course in marketing, deep frying, and that frustrating capitalist dictum, 'the customer is always right.' Ha Jin has triumphed again with his unforgettable storytelling in The Bridegroom. 'A genuine pleasure.' - The New York Times Book Review 'Finely wrought... Every story here is cut like a stone.' - Chicago Sun-Times 'The Bridegroom... showcases [Ha Jin's] mastery of craft, the consummate restraint and nearly telegraphic objectivity with which he paints difficult truths.' - The Boston Globe (For this item please quote stock ID 15941) ISBN: 9780099422174

'I am a woman writer and have a natural interest in and sympathy for the lives of other women. I hope with all my heart to be able to fully understand their feelings, follow in the wake of their progress and share their reflections on life', says Bai Fengxi, author of The Women Trilogy. Her trilogy of plays feature the problems faced by Chinese women in love and marriage, at home and at work, revealing many new females attitudes and a new consciousness in present day Chinese society. (For this item please quote stock ID 4218) ISBN: 9787507100709

Interviews in the form book, introduces the most influential contemporary Chinese literature and the higher profile in foreign countries and their representative works of 20 writers, such as Mo Yanning, Wang Meng, Bo Yang, Hong Ying and so on. Through these interviews and background briefings to foreign readers to understand the development of contemporary Chinese literature, representatives, representatives of thought and classics. (For this item please quote stock ID 34716) ISBN: 9787119068893

帝王行止、宫闱秘闻素来为读者关心，《雍正皇帝(全3册)》描写鲜为人知的清廷生活，却又不拘囿于那小小的紫禁城。阿哥党争，杀机隐隐，龙庭易主，雍正险胜。改诏说，弑父说，继位说,一段历史，几多疑云，扑朔迷离，令人难解难分。作者用史笔著文，用文笔立史，庙堂之高，江湖之远，无不尽收笔底。上至典章制度、宫廷建筑、饮食服饰、礼仪乐律，娓娓道来，书卷气浓；下至勾栏瓦舍、寺庙堂肆、市井乡野、客旅古渡，徐徐展开，风情万种。阿哥逐鹿，明争暗斗，字字权谋机诈；女伶歌伎，绕梁余音，句句回肠荡气。其情节铺设，天矫跌宕，人物塑造，浓淡相宜，谋篇均别出心裁；以思想为经，艺术为纬，鸟瞰历史，探究人生，非大家而不可为。正如一位评论家读后所言：难得的历史小 说佳作。

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康熙八岁即位，由顺治遗命，以索尼、苏克萨哈、遏必隆和鳌拜四人为辅臣。其中鳌拜居功自傲，专横跋扈，待老臣索尼病死后，他拉拢遏必隆，处死了不与他合作的苏克萨哈，更是朝政独揽，经常咆哮金殿，强制康熙屈从他的意愿。康熙十四岁亲政，但鳌拜不仅不还政于皇帝，反而结党营私，拉拢死党，图谋弑君自立。＜BR>
　 康熙自幼聪慧早熟。他一方面秘密拜落第举人、江南才子伍次友为师，勤奋学习历朝皇帝的治国经验；另一方面又以贴身侍卫魏东亭为核心，以习功练武为名，精心挑选、训练了十几名年轻力士，以待时机清除身边的最大隐患。＜BR>
　 康熙和鳌拜集团经过了几番明明暗暗的较量，矛盾日趋尖锐化、明朗化，你死我活的搏杀已在一触即发之际。鳌拜称病在家，加紧了劫宫弑杀康熙的行动。康熙不动声色，只带魏东亭一人夜访鳌府探视，一则以观动静，二则以稳住鳌拜。＜BR>
　 康熙八年五月，经过周密的策划和精心安排，康熙在毓庆宫单独召见鳌拜，利用身边侍卫，以迅雷不及掩耳之势，一举擒拘了武艺高强的鳌拜，并将其余党一网打尽。从此．康熙亲执皇权，为振兴清王朝打下了坚实的政治基础。 (For this item please quote stock ID 34905) ISBN: 9787535440556

《丑陋的中国人》是柏杨在1984年9月24日美国爱荷华大学演讲，强烈批判中国人的“脏、乱、吵”、“窝里斗”以及“不能团结”等，并将原因归结到“中国传统文化中有一种滤过性病毒，使我们的子孙受到了感染，到今天都不能痊愈”。次年8月，此篇讲稿和另外两场演讲的记录《中国人与酱缸》、《人生文学与历史》，一篇访问稿《正视自己的丑陋面》，以及柏杨的三十几篇杂文、近二十篇的回应文章结集出版，是为轰动一时的《丑陋的中国人》。

著名漫画家方成先生，以八十九岁的高龄特为八十八岁的柏杨先生绘制漫画插图，两位年近九旬老者的携手，珠联璧合，实为两岸文化交流的一大盛事。

柏杨曰：
脏、乱、吵，窝里斗！三个中国人加在一起，就成了一头猪！
死不认错；为了掩饰一个错，不得不用很大的努力再制造更多的错，来证明第一个错并不是错。
喜欢装腔作势，记仇，缺乏包容性，中国人打一架可是三代都报不完的仇恨！
自傲、自卑，就是没有自尊，缺乏独立思考能力，更恐惧独立思考。没有是非、没有标准，只会抽风发飙。 (For this item please quote stock ID 34508) ISBN: 9787020065639

Mo Yan is a native of rural Shandong, the site of his fictional Gaomi County, whose history and traditions he evoked so memorably in his novel Red Sorghum. He has been hailed as a Chinese Faulkner and a magic realist in the tradition of Garcia Marquez, but his stories also draw deeply on Chinese tradition and culture as well as on his own experience of the harsh life of China's countryside and his time as a PLA soldier. His often dark vision is transformed by his deep love for his land and people, his mastery of language and the sheer intensity and exuberance of his writing. 'Like Faulkner, Mo Yan presents the reader with a vividly imagined and self-contained world teeming with life . . .' - World Literature Today 'The Old Gun is a story of men and guns as good as any of Hemingway's.' - Pacific Affairs (For this item please quote stock ID 10907) ISBN: 9789627255109

Set in post-World War II Shanghai, "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow" follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the "longtong," the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods.

Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao seeks fame in the Miss Shanghai beauty pageant, and this fleeting moment of stardom becomes the pinnacle of her life. During the next four decades, Wang Qiyao indulges in the decadent pleasures of pre-liberation Shanghai, secretly playing mahjong during the antirightist Movement and exchanging lovers on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. Surviving the vicissitudes of modern Chinese history, Wang Qiyao emerges in the 1980s as a purveyor of "old Shanghai" a living incarnation of a new, commodified nostalgia that prizes splendor and sophistication-only to become embroiled in a tragedy that echoes the pulpy Hollywood noirs of her youth.

From the violent persecution of communism to the liberalism and openness of the age of reform, this sorrowful tale of old China versus new, of perseverance in the face of adversity, is a timeless tale of our never-ending quest for transformation and beauty.

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In the vein of Memoirs of a Geisha and Empress Orchid, a mesmerising novel about two young girls growing up in feudal China Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In 19th century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily now has the power to make a good marriage and change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life, she must undergo the agonies of footbinding, learn nu shu, the famed secret women's writing, and make a very special friend, Snow Flower. But a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything. (For this item please quote stock ID 26994) ISBN: 9780747583004

“文革”期间，为响应领袖毛泽东“上山下乡”的号召，北京四十七中学生林胡与雷厦、徐佐、金刚等同学，满怀革命豪情及对未来的憧憬，步行到内蒙古草原扎根。林胡个性偏执、好斗、倔强，因打架而被兵团定为“现行反革命”，开始了长达八年众叛亲离的劳改生活。一个根本不理他、甚至不愿和他说话的姑娘，成了他全部的精神寄托；讲义气、好面子，对“叛徒”深恶痛绝的雷厦，最后却无意中背叛了肝胆相照的朋友；徐佐则始终忠于自己的信仰，固执地要在内蒙古草原上寻找到理想的归宿；金刚为了能够平安地活着，崇尚“畏怯哲学”，把吃、穿看作人生的最人享受……逮捕、痛打、审讯、上纲上线、戴帽批斗，在拥有绝对权威的军人的恐怖统治下，内蒙古草原上演了一幕幕人性的悲喜剧：狂风暴雨中，六十多条棉被盖上了种子库房顶；熊熊烈火里，六十九个青春的生命瞬间化为黑炭；送战友上大学的路上，五十多名女知青放声恸哭……而成千上万青春的血汗，换来的却是大草原的毁灭。 刚直不阿的主人公林胡，有着异常顽强的生命力，他在压迫之下，反而萌生了要与黑暗专制制度斗争的决心。八年里，他在精神和肉体的双重痛苦中挣扎：狂喊、怒骂，夜复一夜的思想斗争，一纸纸发向兵团各级官员的申诉信，倾注全部生命激情的单恋，以及时时涌动着的野兽般的性欲……沉重得令人窒息。 (For this item please quote stock ID 35331) ISBN: 9787513300919

她，出生在饥荒年代的重庆，排行老六，在母亲的恶骂、父亲的叹息和兄姊的白眼中孤独长大。终于，十八岁那年，所有的秘密在时代的暗潮裹挟中一一揭开…… (For this item please quote stock ID 35332) ISBN: 9787530210260

她在日记中写道：哥哥其实没有爱情，他真可怜。而她自己年过三十，还没有找着合意的郎君，她认为当代中国没有男子汉，但当代中国也不容忍独身女人。她又写道：我也可怜。 (For this item please quote stock ID 35347) ISBN: 9787533930967

她在日记中写道：哥哥其实没有爱情，他真可怜。而她自己年过三十，还没有找着合意的郎君，她认为当代中国没有男子汉，但当代中国也不容忍独身女人。她又写道：我也可怜。 (For this item please quote stock ID 35348) ISBN: 9787533930974

《钟鼓楼》是作者的第一部长篇小说，并由此荣获第二届茅盾文学奖。
小说讲述了20世纪80年代初发生在北京钟鼓楼一带的故事，展示了极其丰富多彩的会场景，陈说着市井的悲欢、几代人的命运，穿越岁月烟尘，再看刘心武笔下的动人世相，犹如翻开了城市记忆的鲜活浮世绘...堪称一部洋溢着浓郁京味的现代《清明上河图》。
在风俗、观念开始发生巨变的迷人的北京老城，鼓楼在前，红墙灰瓦；不断地迎接着一刻、睛一天、下一月、下一年、下一代，并作为社会历史和个人命运的见证而永存。《钟鼓楼》的生命力，随着时间的浸润会凸现出来，使人再次忆念起那个充满了渴望的年代。
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本书包括三辑阅读欣赏《红楼梦》的文章。
　　第一辑《红楼眼神》把书中几处关于人物眼神的描写拎出，道其妙处，解开人物瞬间心理，心机、智慧、无奈、隐忍各种细微心理，尽表世态炎凉、人事微妙，人世苍茫。可谓：闲闲无一语，无声胜有声。
　　第二辑《红楼拾珠》，则集中分析书中人物的精彩语言。绵里藏针，字里含情。正是：红楼话中话，惊起梦中人。
　　第三辑《红楼细处》，为作者对《红楼梦》进行文本细读的心得，也包括把《红楼》中对诗境、实境的描摹与现实社会相互映衬交织。书生叹世，文心雕"红"，堪称：尽说红楼真共假，笑看世上有还无。 (For this item please quote stock ID 35352) ISBN: 9787229028787

十年前，曾经为自己的作品集中做过一次阶段性小结，编辑出版了五卷本《铁凝文集》。十年后的今天，当再一次为自己的作品做阶段性小结之际，恰逢人民文学出版社拟编辑出版“中国当代作家系列”丛书，于是，自己的这套作品系列凡九本便应运而生。 其中，长篇小说三卷，分别是：《玫瑰门》《无雨之城》《大浴女》；中篇小说两卷，书名为《永远有多远》和《午后悬崖》；短篇小说两卷，书名为《有客来兮》和《巧克力手印》；散文集两卷，书名为《会走路的梦》和《像剪纸一样美艳明净》。 (For this item please quote stock ID 35354) ISBN: 9787020057498

《名家中篇小说典藏-风景》，本书介绍我极其感澈父亲给我的这块血肉并让我永远和家人待在一起。我宁静地看着我的哥哥姐姐们生活和成长，在困厄中挣扎和在彼此间殴斗。我听见他们每个人都对着窗下说过还是小八子舒服的话。我为我比他们每个人都拥有更多的幸福和安宁而忐忑不安。 (For this item please quote stock ID 35333) ISBN: 9787533930998

激情抒写历史，真实还原英雄，草莽英雄"梁大牙"何以成为同名小说和电视剧《历史的天空》最受关注的亮点？一个"泼皮无赖"似的人物最终成为令人敬服的将军，这样的人会有吗？究竟这是一个"马背上的猴子"，还是战争对人的"异化"？...请在本书中寻找答案！ (For this item please quote stock ID 35351) ISBN: 9787506347648

继夺香港、占九龙之后，1898年，英国殖民主义者又强迫清政府签定《展拓香港界址专条》，将广东新县的大部分土地和海域租让英国，租期99年。
1984年，中英《联合声明》发表，中国政府将于1997年恢复对香港行使主权。
百年国耻，一朝洗雪。作者怀着“待从头收拾旧山河”豪情赶赴香港，搜集素材、查阅资料、采访各界人士、踏勘历史遗迹，在充分尊重历史真实的基础上，缜密构思、潜心创作，历时数载，在香港回归祖国前夕完成了这部沉雄悲壮、浑厚苍凉而又柔婉细腻、催人泪下的大气之作。小说运用多种艺术手段，全景式地展现了香港拓界那一页惨痛的历史，谱写了一曲中国人民为抵御外侮宁死不屈的慷慨悲歌。
《补天裂》荣获第七届“五个一工程”奖、第六届全国少数民族优秀文学骏马奖等多种奖项。 (For this item please quote stock ID 35355) ISBN: 9787020062935

《山楂树之恋终结篇:不懂说将来》内容简介：爱情就像一颗山楂，红彤彤的，看上去诱人，咬下去却是酸的。面对这样的爱情可能不会涕泪横流，却让你的心酸得钝钝的痛。 当我们以为自己在谈论爱情，其实却并不知道我们的谈论已经偏离了爱情的主题，或者将爱情带入了另外一个范畴。 越纯洁越容易破碎，越纯净越容易消失，无论是玻璃、水晶抑或最坚硬的钻石。为什么那么多人在爱情中受伤，体无完肤，依旧去爱着；为什么有一些人，在所谓的爱情中，却可以保护自己，进退自如；为什么有人可以做到在爱情中保持理性，并且一直冰冷下去。 时时刻刻身处过程之中，别去想结局，才有勇气和毅力走完余下的路。如此，生命赖以依托的支柱，即便倒下了，也永远在心里树立着。所有的过程中，总有最美的，最珍贵的，最值得怀念的。拥有过，就是幸福。累了，坚持不住了，回望一下，就能走下去，就在延续。 (For this item please quote stock ID 34819) ISBN: 9787802562028

Snow in August is a new play by Gao Xingjian, the winner of 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature. The story is based on the life of the legendary Huineng (AD 633-713), the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism in Tang Dynasty China. It represents a change in the direction on the part of the playwright - a return to a Chinese theme after years of writing on 'universal' subject matters. Packed with the myriad sights and sounds of both the Eastern and Western theatrical traditions, the play exudes wonder and mysticism. The many koan cases and the story of Huineng's enlightenment afford the audience fascinating vignettes of Gao's vision of life and existence - an awareness of the Void and the need for a personal peace with oneself. In this play, Gao finds a soul-mate in Huineng, a marginal figure in the society of his time, who defies established thinking and conventions and challenges even the emperor in refusing to serve the imperial court. 'Snow in August blends Eastern and Western cultures. In form, there are elements of Shakespearean and Greek tragedy, but in spirit, it embodies a uniquely Eastern sensibility. 'My aim is to create a new and contemporary musical theatre based on the foundations of Eastern traditional drama, an omnipotent theatre of singing, movement, dialogue, and the martial arts' - Gao Xingjian Gilbert Fong is a current Professor at the Department of Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the translator of The Other Shore: Plays by Gao Xingjian, (also by The Chinese University Press, 1999) and also editor of Hong Kong Drama Review, Journal of Translation Studies and several books on Chinese and Hong Kong Drama. (For this item please quote stock ID 20272) ISBN: 9789629960681

Yang Lian burst on the Chinese poetry scene in the late 1970s as a member of the Today group. The political storms of the last two decades have turned him into a writer in exile. Yang exploits this condition of exile to probe our human and linguistic predicaments. This leads to a continuous reinvention of the poet's self and his chosen form of expression. In Yang's own words, he is always 'crossing boundaries and scaling walls'. This volume traces Yang's poetic career from 1982 to 2001. It is the most comprehensive and representative collection of Yang's work to date. Yang was awarded the Italian Flaiano International Prize for Poetry in 1999. His collection of poems Where the Sea Stands Still (1999) was recommended for an English translation prize by the British Poetry Association. Brian Holton, the translator, has worked closely with Yang Lian since 1992. He is currently Assistant Professor of the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. (For this item please quote stock ID 18449) ISBN: 9789627255253

From this work: CROCODILE the crocodile, nostrils shut tight as a word disdains to notice you just sinks or floats at the surface of this white page in despair you cry for help with long-submerged words sink into water full of crocodiles (For this item please quote stock ID 21598) ISBN: 9780948454158

本书描写了女主人公尹小跳备尝艰辛的成长过程与情感历程：因母亲的红杏出墙和小妹的失足丧命，她背负了学生的精神负累，并疏远了与母亲的关系；妹妹尹小帆事事与她较劲，与其说是亲人，不如说是对头；她一往情深地痴恋着的大明星方竞，走近了之后才发现是一个只图占有不愿付出的大俗人。 (For this item please quote stock ID 35350) ISBN: 9787506346467

For eight ground breaking years, Xin Ran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast every evening, 'Words on the Night Breeze' became famous throughout the country for its unflinching portrayal of what it meant to be a woman in modern China. Centuries of obedience to their fathers, husbands and sons, followed by years of fear under Communism had made women terrified of talking openly about their feelings. Xin Ran won their trust and, through her compassion and ability to listen, became the first woman to hear their true stories. This unforgettable book is the story of how Xin Ran negotiated the minefield of restrictions imposed on Chinese journalists to reach out to women across the country. Through the vivid intimacy of her writing, the women's voices confide in the reader, sharing their deepest secrets for the first time. Whether they are the privileged wives of Party leaders or peasants in a forgotten corner of the countryside, they tell of almost inconceivable suffering: forced marriages, sexual abuse, separation of parents from their children, extreme poverty. But they also talk about love, about how, despite cruelty, despite politics, the female urge to nurture and cherish remains. Their stories changed Xin Ran's understanding of China for ever. Her book will reveal the lives of Chinese women to the West as never before. (For this item please quote stock ID 19025) ISBN: 9787806685785

'Creates a subtle reading of the harshness of contemporary China.' - Publishers Weekly 'I recommend this book to general readers ... and to students and scholars.' - China Review International, Spring 1997 To travel through these stories is to cross a landscape of stunning beauty and terrific cruelty, where expectations are subverted, where moral certainties are shattered, where gorgeously wrought surfaces beguile at the same time that acts of incredible brutality horrify. It is no wonder that Yu Hua's stories caused a sensation when they first appeared in the 1980s. His work represents a sophisticated and often disturbing revolution in the Chinese literary tradition, reminiscent of the fiction of modernists like Kafka, Kawabata, Borges, and Robbe-Grillet, but drawing inspiration from several strains of traditional Chinese narrative as well. This is the first collection of short fiction by Yu Hua to appear in English. It takes us on a haunting and harrowing journey from classical China through the Cultural Revolution and into the new era of economic reform, exploding along the way our preconceived notions of what Chinese literature and culture are all about in the 1990s. (For this item please quote stock ID 20256) ISBN: 9780824817824

Lesbian and gay - or queer - fiction (known in Mandarin as tongzhi wenxue) constitutes a major contribution to Taiwanese literature, as evidenced by the remarkable number of prestigious literary awards won by many of the authors of the short stories presented here. Indeed, the meteoric rise of this new genre was a defining feature of Taiwan's literary scene in the 1990s. Queer fiction was also instrumental in forming self-identifying subcultural gay readerships, thus serving a significant political function. But most strikingly, this fiction has been immensely popular with general readers in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, as well as in diasporic Chinese communities worldwide. The startlingly fresh, brave voices that speak through these stories attest to the powerful social ferment of the past ten years in Taiwan, which have witnessed a revolution in discourses on sex and sexuality in the public sphere. Contributors: Chu T'ien-Wen, Qiu Miaojin, Chu T'ien-Hsin, Hsu Yoshen, Lin Yuyi, Lin Chun Ying, Chen Xue, Hong Ling, Chi Tawei, Wu Jiwen. Fran Martin is lecturer in cinema studies at La Trobe University in Australia. (For this item please quote stock ID 20734) ISBN: 9780824826611

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China's leading woman poet, Shu Ting worked in the countryside until 1973, returning to the city to work on construction sites and in factories. In spite of all this, her firm faith in the human spirit led to poetry. Her pure style and mature voice found a ready response among a generation shaped by the experiences of the Cultural Revolution. The poems included in this first collection of Shu Ting's work in English span her career, amply demonstrating her poetic gifts. 'A poet of sorrow and a lyric wistfulness... Another element of her mature writing is a powerful feminist consciousness.' - World Literature Today (For this item please quote stock ID 12676) ISBN: 9789627255147

This book contains the stories of ten migrant workers and urban transplants. The stories are presented as interviews. What do they think about their lives? What is their world like? These people persist amid the changing tapestry of ideals in contemporary China and we find they reflect, in different ways, the spirit of the Chinese people. (For this item please quote stock ID 35763) ISBN: 9787510418006

最难能可贵的是，在表现残酷的悲伤和死亡的主题时，贯穿全书的是凄美轻盈的浪漫副歌，尤其是两个女主人公自杀的细节：一个用短信做了死的宣告，鲜血带着甜腥的味道；一个从楼上轻轻一跳，像影子一样砸在地上。她们的死，不是痛不欲生的制度压抑，也不是苦难沉重的物质绝望，而是因为爱的谎言和尊严是因为她们爱的这个世界忽然变得“肮脏”和无法信任。是信念问题！联想到最近几年频繁发生在大学和高中校园里的自杀事件，我们不能不说，作者的描写是真实可靠的。然而，在作者的笔下，这样的死，却像蝴蝶一样轻盈而飘逸，像一道美丽的弧。 　　唯其这美丽，我们阅读者的心，才更加的悲伤更加的痛…… (For this item please quote stock ID 29748) ISBN: 9787535436139

Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Laureate in Literature for 2000. He is the only Chinese writer to achieve this international acclaim. The Other Shore: Plays by Gao Xingjian contains five of Gao's most recent works: The Other Shore (1986), Between Life and Death (1991), Dialogue and Rebuttal (1992), Nocturnal Wanderer (1993), and Weekend Quartet (1995). With original imagery and beautiful language, these plays illuminate the realities of life, death, sex, loneliness, and exile - phenomena of existence of modern man. The plays also show the dramatist's idea of the tripartite actor, a process by which the actor neutralizes himself and achieves a disinterested observation of his self in performance. There is also an introduction by the translator which describes the dramatist and his view of drama. Born and educated in China, Gao studied French literature at the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute between 1957-1962. He became a resident playwright at the Beijing People's Art Theatre after the Cultural Revolution. His plays have been performed around the world, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, the Ivory Coast, the United States, France, Germany and other European countries. His works are trend-setting and have created much controversy. He settled in France in 1987 and continues his playwriting. Gao Xingjian was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 1992. Gilbert C. F. Fong, has written many articles on modern and contemporary Chinese literature and literary translation. Presently he is an associate professor at the Department of Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and is heading a research project on the history of Hong Kong drama. He is also the editor of the monographs Studies on Hong Kong Drama and Plays from Hong Kong, and of the journal Hong Kong Drama Review. (For this item please quote stock ID 7274) ISBN: 9789622018624

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With a wagon car, the author showed his viewpoint of what he has seen and heard on the way. His start point is just want to find faith on the other side and tried his best to find the convincing value. (For this item please quote stock ID 33540) ISBN: 9787512500983

這是一場性愛的盛宴。

唐高宗李治，文學家韓愈，禪宗五祖弘忍、六祖慧能，以及與慧能爭衣鉢的神秀，都拜倒在名妓魚玄機的石榴裙下。白日宣淫，就地正法，肆無忌憚，一晌貪歡，佛門清淨地，成了風情萬種的極樂世界。

性愛如此天然、本真，不稍掩飾，不論是非，盤古開天地以來，人遵循自然法則進行這種欲仙欲死的儀式，人對自己身體給予的快感玩命享受。

不分貴賤，不計賢愚，性愛面前人人平等。一國天子、文地泰斗、佛門大德，與一個小和尚不二，心裏想的是同一回事，床上做的也是同一回事，既如此，性愛又有甚麼值得大驚小怪？

砸碎一切性愛的枷鎖，讓天性裸露於天地之間，吞吐日月精華，重拾生靈野性，如此的男歡女愛，簡直就是一篇挑戰禁忌的宣言。

作者為大陸廣受注目的熱點作家，小說散文都在兩岸引起強烈反響，天馬行空的情節顛覆習慣思維，汁液淋漓的筆下氤氳人間性情，令人讀時過癮，讀後茫然。

這不是一本淫書，是一本奇書。 (For this item please quote stock ID 35411) ISBN: 9789882194199

本书通过少年林雨翔的视角，向读者揭示了一个类真实的高中生的生活，把亲子关系、师生关系、同学关系的种种矛盾和问题展现开来，体现了学生式的思考、困惑和梦想。韩寒以自己的方式思考着、激动着、愤怒着、抗争着、改变着，透过那些犀利的、尖锐的甚至是刻薄的语言，我们感受到的是一个天才少年的灵光闪现。

林雨翔初一去考文学社，临时忘了《父与子》是谁写的，惨遭淘汰。第二次交了两篇文章，走错一条路，揭露了大学生出国不归的现象，忘了唱颂歌，又被刷下。第三次学乖了，大唱颂歌，满以为入选在望，不料他平时颂歌唱得太少，关键时刻唱不过人家，没唱出新意，没唱出感情，再次落选。从此后对文学彻底失望。这次得以进了文学社，高兴得愁都省略掉了。 (For this item please quote stock ID 35971) ISBN: 9787807592129

本书通过少年林雨翔的视角，向读者揭示了一个类真实的高中生的生活，把亲子关系、师生关系、同学关系的种种矛盾和问题展现开来，体现了学生式的思考、困惑和梦想。韩寒以自己的方式思考着、激动着、愤怒着、抗争着、改变着，透过那些犀利的、尖锐的甚至是刻薄的语言，我们感受到的是一个天才少年的灵光闪现。

林雨翔初一去考文学社，临时忘了《父与子》是谁写的，惨遭淘汰。第二次交了两篇文章，走错一条路，揭露了大学生出国不归的现象，忘了唱颂歌，又被刷下。第三次学乖了，大唱颂歌，满以为入选在望，不料他平时颂歌唱得太少，关键时刻唱不过人家，没唱出新意，没唱出感情，再次落选。从此后对文学彻底失望。这次得以进了文学社，高兴得愁都省略掉了。 (For this item please quote stock ID 35972) ISBN: 9787547011157

1937年12月13日，时为国民政府首都的南京城沦陷，国民党部分官员弃城逃亡，南京即将面临着血腥的屠杀……

金陵女子学院成为国际安全区内专门收容妇女儿童的难民营，美国女传教士明妮?魏特林临危受命、进行了抵抗日军暴行、保护上万妇女和儿童、成立家庭工艺学校等人道主义行动。《南京安魂曲》写出了悲剧面前的众生万象和复杂人性，文章中的侵华日军的战争暴行，恐怖的日日夜夜，人性的怯懦和黑洞，夹杂在亲情与民族大义之间的挣扎，得以真实而全景地再现。 (For this item please quote stock ID 35973) ISBN: 9787539946825

A bestseller in China, "Brothers" is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok.
Here is China as we've never seen it before, in a sweeping, Rabelaisian panorama of forty years of rough-and-rumble Chinese history, from the madness of the Cultural Revolution to the equally rabid madness of extreme materialism. Yu Hua, award-winning author of "To Live," gives us a surreal tale of two comically mismatched stepbrothers, Baldy Li, a sex-obsessed ne'er-do-well, and the bookish, sensitive Song Gang, who vow that they will always be brothers--a bond they will struggle to maintain over the years as they weather the ups and downs of rivalry in love and making and losing millions in the new China.
Both tragic and absurd by turns, "Brothers" is a fascinating vision of an extraordinary place and time. (For this item please quote stock ID 35975) ISBN: 9780307386069

Yu Hua conceived this book of essays on China from a writer's perspective while preparing for a lecture on the topic of "A Writer's China in March 2009 at Pomona College. The content soon became a collection of China in its dynamic transition. Allan Barr, Pomona College Professor of Asian Studies comments, ..".partly auto-biographical, it's a commentary on social issues in China." Barr is in the process of translating the book into English. German, Russian, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Korean translations are in the work and the French edition titled "La Chine en dix mots" is published 9/2010. Due to potential censorship of the content's overtone, this book will not be published in China.

三十多年來雜草叢生般湧現的社會矛盾和社會問題，被經濟高速發展帶來的樂觀情緒所掩飾。我此刻的工作就是反其道而行之，從今天看上去輝煌的結果出發，去尋找那些可能是令人不安的原因。

我希望能夠在此將當代中國的滔滔不絕，縮寫到這十個簡單的詞彙之中；我希望自己跨越時空的敘述可以將理性的分析、感性的經驗和親切的故事融為一體；我希望自己的努力工作，可以在當代中國翻天覆地的變化和紛亂複雜的社會裡，開闢出一條清晰的和非虛構的敘述之路。──余華 (For this item please quote stock ID 35766) ISBN: 9789861204772

Named one of the Top 100 Works of Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction by Yazhou Zhoukan (Asia Weekly); winner - Shanghai Literary Prize; winner - Best Novel in Taiwan, China Times Prize. (For this item please quote stock ID 23709) ISBN: 9787020045624

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'[A] lively English version of one of Taiwan's key literary landmarks' - World Literature Today. 'A first-rate work of art ... Family Catastrophe is ideal for adoption by college literature courses that transcend the boundaries of the Western canon' - China Review International, Spring 1997. 'The first English publication of this important novel by Wang Wen-hsing is bound to be seen as a major event in the scholarly community of Chinese literary studies' - Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang, University of Texas, Austin. Wang Wen-hsing caused a sensation in Taiwan in 1972 with publication of Family Catastrophe, his first full-length novel. Many critics were outraged, called it socially irresponsible, morally corrupt, and stylistically irrational, but the novel weathered its controversial reception to become what is now widely regarded as a masterpiece in modern Chinese fiction and the benchmark of Taiwan's Modernist movement. Often described as Joycean, Family Catastrophe is significant for its stylistic and linguistic experimentation as well as for its disturbing and universal themes. It appears here in English for the first time. (For this item please quote stock ID 15487) ISBN: 9780824817107