Read the World: China

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

Updated February 16, 2024
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Dragon seed
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.
Ebook
A New York Times-bestselling historical novel about the Japanese invasion of Nanking from the author of The Good Earth. Farmer Liang Tan knows only a quiet, traditional life in his remote Chinese farming community. When news filters in that...
The story of paper
Compestine, Ying Chang.
Ebook
"With bold black outlines and vivid coloration... the artwork captures the action as the boys exercise their ingenuity."--School Library Journal The Kang boys don't want their teacher to write embarrassing notes on their hands anymore. Can they concoct a formula for what just...
Celebrated cases of Judge Dee = Dee goong an an authentic eighteenth-century Chinese detective novel
Gulik, Robert Hans van, 1910-1967
Paper Book
The haunted monastery a Judge Dee mystery
Gulik, Robert Hans van, 1910-1967 author, illustrator.
Ebook
Judge Dee and his entourage, seeking refuge from a mountain storm, become trapped in a Taoist monastery, where the Abbott Jade mysteriously dies after delivering an ecstatic sermon. The monks call it a supernatural experience, but the judge calls it murder. Recalling the allegedly...
My Beijing four stories of everyday wonder
Jun, Nie, 1975- author, illustrator.
Ebook
A 2019 Batchelder Honor Book Yu'er and her grandpa live in a small neighborhood in Beijing--and it's full of big personalities. There's a story around every corner, and each day has a hint of magic. In one tale, Yu'er wants to swim in the Special Olympics, a sports...
The piano teacher a novel
Lee, Janice Y. K.
Paper Book
Ten years after World War II causes the demise of a love affair between an Englishman and a Eurasian socialite, Claire Pendleton is hired by the wealthy Chen family as a piano instructor, falls in love with the Englishman, and is seduced by the social life of Hong Kong's expatriate community.
The moon in the palace [electronic resource]
Randel, Weina Dai.
Ebook
"Randel's gorgeous debut novel seductively pulls back the curtain to reveal the heartbreaking world of...China."--Stephanie Dray, NYT bestselling Author of America's First Daughter A thrilling work of historical fiction, bringing romance, intrigue, and the unexpected rise of an Empress to...
Snow flower and the secret fan a novel
See, Lisa.
Paper Book
Lily is haunted by memories-of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound...
The kitchen god's wife
Tan, Amy.
Paper Book
Here is the eagerly awaited new novel from the author of The Joy Luck Club, the powerful and moving bestseller hailed by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as powerful . . . full of magic. Convinced that she is dying, an elderly Chinese woman living in San Francisco decides to reveal all the...
The song of everlasting sorrow [electronic resource] A Novel of Shanghai
Wang, Anyi, 1954-
Ebook
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,...
Grandmaster of demonic cultivation: mo dao zu shi (the comic / manhua), volume 1 [electronic resource].
Xiu, Mo Xiang Tong.
Paper Book
HAUNTED BY SIN Following the trail of a dismembered corpse, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji arrive at the gates of Yi City: an old, abandoned town shrouded in mist and restless spirits. A fiendish foe awaits them in the shadows, heralding a tale of heartbreak and tragedy. When the...

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