Read the World: China

Books by authors from China or set in/about China.

Updated February 16, 2024
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A private life [electronic resource]
Chen, Ran, 1962-
Ebook
No detailed description available for "A Private Life".
The Dragon's Village
Chen, Yuan-tsung, 1932-
Paper Book
Atlas [electronic resource] the archaeology of an imaginary city
Dong, Qizhang, 1967- author.
Ebook
No detailed description available for "Atlas".
Homesick my own story
Fritz, Jean
Paper Book
"Fritz draws readers into scenes of her youth in the turbulent China of the mid-twenties. . . . the generous affection of her nurse/companion . . . her mother's grief over losing a second child, the dynamics of asuffering population venting its hostility on foreigners, and most of all, the...
Soul mountain = [Ling shan]
Gao, Xingjian
Paper Book
"If a successful novelist is one who tells us something new about the human spirit and a successful novel transports us to another world, then Gao and Soul Mountain have succeeded spectacularly." -- Washington Post Book World An extraordinary work of immense wisdom and profound...
Celebrated cases of Judge Dee = Dee goong an an authentic eighteenth-century Chinese detective novel
Gulik, Robert Hans van, 1910-1967
Paper Book
Long before Western writers had even conceived the idea of writing detective stories, the Chinese had developed a long tradition of literary works that chronicled the cases of important district magistrates. These judges held a unique position. As "fathers to the people" they...
Yeh-Shen a Cinderella story from China
Louie, Ai-Ling
Paper Book
Told with beauty and grace, this Cinderella story from Ai-Ling Louie is brought vividly to life by Caldecott Medal-winner Ed Young's soft, glowing illustrations. Half-starved and overworked by her stepmother, Yeh-Shen's only friend is a fish with golden eyes. When the stepmother...
Diary of a madman and other stories
Lu, Xun
Paper Book
"Here at last is an accurate and enjoyable rendering of Lu Xun's fiction in an American English idiom that masterfully captures the sardonic wit, melancholy pathos, and ironic vision of China's first truly modern writer." -Michael S. Duke, University of British Columbia The inventor...
The kitchen god's wife
Tan, Amy.
Paper Book
"Tan is one of the prime storytellers writing fiction today." -NEWSWEEK Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her...
The money demon [electronic resource] an autobiographical romance
Tianxuwosheng.
Ebook
The song of everlasting sorrow : a novel of Shanghai
Wang, Anyi
Paper Book
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...
Shanghai Express [electronic resource]
Zhang, Henshui, 1895-1967.
Ebook
The cook, the crook, and the real estate tycoon [electronic resource] A Novel of Contemporary China
Zhenyun, Liu.
Ebook
The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon, by prize-winning Chinese novelist Liu Zhenyun is a novel of Beijing that paints a microcosm of contemporary China, dealing with classes at the two extremes: the super rich and the migrant workers who make them rich through deceit and corruption...

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