Cultural Region/Chinese
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Aftershock
$28.99 Read moreA catastrophic disaster in China triggers a mother’s heartbreaking choice and a daughter’s reconciliation with the past in a powerful novel by the author of A Single Swallow and Where Waters Meet.
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- Author: Ling, Zhang
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 1662510373
- Language: English
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The Monkey and the Monk: An Abridgment of The Journey to the West
$20.00 Add to cartAnthony C. Yu’s celebrated translation of The Journey to the West reinvigorated one of Chinese literature’s most beloved classics for English-speaking audiences when it first appeared thirty years ago
- Author: Yu, Anthony C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0226971562
- Language: English
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Border Town
$17.99 Add to cartNew in the Harper Perennial Modern Chinese Classics series, Border Town is a classic Chinese novel–banned by Mao’s regime–that captures the ideals of rural China through the moving story of a young
- Author: Shen, Congwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 61436917
- Language: English
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Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet: Ten Queer Stories
$28.95 Add to cartPlatinum Bible of the Public Toilet is the first English-language collection of short stories by Cui Zi’en, China’s most famous and controversial queer filmmaker, writer, scholar, and LGBTQ rights act… [more below]
- Series: Sinotheory
- Author: Cui, Zi’en
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1478030062
- Language: English
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An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911
$85.99 Add to cartHailed as a groundbreaking text in Chinese Studies, An Anthology of Chinese Literature brings together representative works from the first millennium B.C. to the end of the imperial system in 1911.
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- Author: Owen, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1190
- Publish Date: January 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0393971066
- Language: English
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The Valley of Amazement
$16.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestseller The Valley of Amazement is a sweeping, evocative epic of two women’s intertwined fates and their search for identity–from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fo
- Author: Tan, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0062107321
- Language: English
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Love in a Fallen City
$19.95 Add to cartMasterful short works about passion, family, and human relationships by one of the greatest writers of 20th century China.
A New York Review Books Original“[A] giant of modern Chinese literature” –Th
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Chang, Eileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 1590171780
- Language: English
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The Art of War Collection: Deluxe 7-Book Hardcover Boxed Set
$59.99 Add to cartThis luxurious 7-volume boxset contains the most famous military texts of Ancient China, bound in high-quality cloth and presented in a decorative slipcase.
Written between 500 BCE and 700 CE, these- Series: Arcturus Collector’s Classics #10
- Author: Tzu, Sun
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1838576827
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays
$19.99 Read moreThe Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays is a groundbreaking anthology of modern Tibetan non-fiction. This unprecedented collection celebrates the art of the modern Tibetan essay and comprises some o… [more below]
- Author: Dickie, Tenzin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0143462326
- Language: English
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The Story of the Stone, Volume I: The Golden Days, Chapters 1-26
$21.00 Add to cartThe Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature.
Divided into five volumes, The Story of the Stone chart- Series: Story of the Stone #1
- Author: Cao Xueqin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 30 1974
- ISBN10: 0140442936
- Language: English
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Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
$19.99 Add to cart- One of the Nobel Prize Winners in Literature
- Ideal for fans of Chinese Playground, We Are Party People, Death of Me, Skate with Me, A Farmer’s Life for Me, and similar works
- Written by today’s most reve
- Author: Yan, Mo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: July 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1611454271
- Language: English
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The Piano Tuner
$25.99 Read moreThis bestseller and winner of every major literary award in Taiwan is an elegiac novel about love and loss, broken dreams and desolate hearts–and music: “A delightful read.”–Ha Jin
A widower grievi- Author: Kuo, Chiang-Sheng
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1956763414
- Language: English
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Shanghailanders
$28.00 Add to cartA dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in time–beginning in 2040 and moving through our present and the recent past–exploring their secrets, the
- Author: Min, Juli
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1954118600
- Language: English
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Under Heaven
$23.00 Add to cartAward-winning author Guy Gavriel Kay evokes the dazzling Tang Dynasty of 8th-century China in an masterful story of honor and power.
It begins simply. Shen Tai, son of an illustrious general serving t- Author: Kay, Guy Gavriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0451463897
- Language: English
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Anthology of Chinese Literature: Volume I: From Early Times to the Fourteenth Century
$16.00 Add to cartInternationally renowned Chinese literature scholar Cyril Birch was the first to assemble the finest translations of these seminal pieces in his now classic and still definitive introductory anthologi… [more below]
- Series: Anthology of Chinese Literature #1
- Author: Birch, Cyril
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 10 1994
- ISBN10: 0802150381
- Language: English
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Rickshaw Boy
$18.99 Add to cart“Lao She’s great novel.”
—The New York TimesA beautiful new translation of the classic Chinese novel from Lao She, one of the most acclaimed and popular Chinese writers of the twentieth century, Ri
- Author: Lao, She
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0061436925
- Language: English
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Cocoon
$19.99 Add to cartCheng Gong and Li Jiaqi grew up together in a Chinese provincial capital in the 1980s. Now, many years later, the childhood friends reunite and are determined to follow the tracks of their grandparent… [more below]
- Author: Yueran, Zhang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 323
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1642861057
- Language: English
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Shifu, You’ll Do Anything for a Laugh
$19.99 Add to cartMo Yan, China’s most critically acclaimed author, has changed the face of his country’s contemporary literature with such daring and masterly novels as Red Sorghum, The Garlic Ballads, and The Republi… [more below]
- Author: Yan, Mo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1611457351
- Language: English
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Beijing Comrades
$16.95 Add to cartThe sensational underground novel of homosexuality in late-1980s China that’s been declared “one of the most significant Chinese novels of our time” (The New York Times).
When Handong, the ruthless, w
- Author: Bei Tong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1558619070
- Language: English
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Peach Blossom Paradise
$17.95 Add to cartAn enthralling story of revolution, idealism, and a savage struggle for utopia by one of China’s greatest living novelists.
In 1898 reformist intellectuals in China persuaded the young emperor that it- Author: Fei, Ge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1681374706
- Language: English
