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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 11 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies
    The Fortunes - by Peter Ho Davies

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780340980255 | ISBN 10: 0340980257

    By the author of the Booker longlisted The Welsh Girl, a vibrant, powerful and iconoclastic novel telling the little-known story of the Chinese in America, and of America through its Chinese.   Ah Ling: son of a prostitute and a white 'ghost', ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Killing Room by Peter May
    The Killing Room - by Peter May

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784291686 | ISBN 10: 1784291684

    Li Yan and Margaret Campbell travel to Shanghai: where a new ally, and a new enemy, await.   THE THIRD CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED CHINA THRILLER, FROM THE MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE RICHARD AND JUDY BESTSELLER THE BLACKHOUSE.   THE NEW CASE  Whe ... more

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  • Cover image of book In a Land of Paper Gods by Rebecca Mackenzie
    In a Land of Paper Gods - by Rebecca Mackenzie

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781472224224 | ISBN 10: 1472224221

    A gorgeous literary debut in the tradition of The Poisonwood Bible about a school for the children of British missionaries in China, at the top of a mountain, at the edge of the Second World War  Jiangxi Province, China, 1941  Atop th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Half a Lifelong Romance by Eileen Chang
    Half a Lifelong Romance - by Eileen Chang

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141189390 | ISBN 10: 0141189398

    From one of twentieth-century China's greatest writers and the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love affair set in 1930s Shanghai.   Manjing is a young worker in a Shanghai factory, where she meets Shujun, the son ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Quarter of the Moon by Chi Zijian
    The Last Quarter of the Moon - by Chi Zijian

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099555650 | ISBN 10: 0099555654

    In this sweeping epic, full of love and loss, a woman from one of the last remote reindeer-herding tribes of northeastern China tells the story of her family and the last century of her country's history.  ‘A long-time confidante of the rain and sno ... more

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  • Cover image of book Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu, translated by Howard Goldblatt
    Three Sisters - by Bi Feiyu, translated by Howard Goldblatt

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846590238 | ISBN 10: 184659023x

    Three sisters struggle to change the course of their destinies, in a China that does not belong to them. Yumi uses her dignity, Yuxiu her seductive powers, and Yuyang her desire for success.  This breathtaking story vividly captures the demon ... more

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  • Cover image of book Red Lotus by Pai Kit Fai
    Red Lotus - by Pai Kit Fai

    £10.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780751538984 | ISBN 10: 0751538981

    Yip Mann, an elderly spice farmer, should have known better than to purchase a fifteen-year-old cherry-girl as his concubine, especially one beautiful enough to be seen as Ch’ien Gum - comparable to a thousand pieces of gold. But surely he deserves s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Once on a Moonless Night by Dai Sijie
    Once on a Moonless Night - by Dai Sijie

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099521327 | ISBN 10: 0099521326

    A young French woman in Peking in the late 1970s interprets between Chinese professors and Bertolucci for his film The Last Emperor. Afterwards, she follows a disgruntled old professor who tells her about a text believed to be taken directly from Bud ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan
    The Garlic Ballads - by Mo Yan

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780413775313 | ISBN 10: 0413775313

    By China's greatest living novelist, an unforgettable story of politics, love, loyalty and retribution - between man and woman, father and child, friend and friend. In China's Paradise Coutny, the peasants have grown their famous garlic crop for hund ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mr Muo
    Mr Muo's Travelling Couch - by Dai Sijie

    £12.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099470182 | ISBN 10: 0099470187

    Dai Sijie's bestselling first novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress was a delightful fable. His second is a Chinese Don Quixote, following the misadventures of Mr Muo, China's first psychoanalyst. It's been over ten years since Muo lef ... more

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  • Cover image of book Village of Stone by Xiaolu
    Village of Stone - by Xiaolu

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099459071 | ISBN 10: 0099459078

    Village of Stone brilliantly evokes the harshness of life on the typhoon-battered coast of China, where fishermen are often lost to violent seas and children regularly swept away.  It is the beautiful, haunting story of one little girl's struggl ... more

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