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Reading China Against the Grain: Imagining Communities by Carlos Rojas
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $32.59Through an analysis of a wide array of contemporary Chinese literature from inside and outside of China, this volume considers some of the ways in which China and Chineseness are understood and... -
Ruined City by Jia Pingwa 9780806151731
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $24.12When originally published in 1993, Ruined City (Fei Du) was promptly banned by China's State Publishing Administration, ostensibly for its explicit sexual content. Since then, award-winning author... -
The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters by Megan Walsh
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics? The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary... -
How to Read a Novelist: Conversations with Writers by John Freeman 9781472109378
Booksplease Price: $26.70For the last fifteen years, if a novel was published, John Freeman has been there to greet it. As a critic for more than two hundred newspapers worldwide, and current editor of Granta, he has... -
Ideology, Power, Text: Self-Representation and the Peasant 'Other' in Modern Chinese Literature by Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker 9780804733199
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $72.01The division between the scholar-gentry class and the "people" was an enduring theme of the traditional Chinese agrarian-bureaucratic state. Twentieth-century elites recast this as a division between... -
Market Street: A Chinese Woman in Harbin by Hong Xiao 9780295994239
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $31.49Back in print - Market StreetAbout the AuthorXiao Hong (1911-1942) is best known for her two short novels, Field of Life and Death and Tales of Hulan River. Howard Goldblatt has translated numerous... -
Optimism, Literature, and Culture in American Capitalism and Chinese Socialism Wendy Larson 9780198957928
RRP: $99.33Booksplease Price: $91.18This book examines and interprets the uncanny similarity between capitalism and socialism over the twentieth century as both systems found ways to encourage happiness and optimism in their citizens... -
Persuasive Aesthetic Ecocritical Praxis: Climate Change, Subsistence, and Questionable Futures by Patrick D. Murphy 9781498514835
Booksplease Price: $118.28Persuasive Aesthetic Ecocritical Praxis continues Patrick D. Murphy's focus on transversal ecocritical praxis by considering literature and cinema in terms of the persuasive force of aesthetic... -
Visions of Dystopia in China's New Historical Novels by Jeffrey C. Kinkley 9780231167680
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $57.47The depiction of personal and collective suffering in modern Chinese novels differs significantly from standard Communist accounts and many Eastern and Western historical narratives. Writers such as... -
Lucien: A Novel by J.R. Thornton 9780063458437
Booksplease Price: $15.79A gifted yet financially disadvantaged artist falls victim to the manipulative control of his wealthy, enigmatic Harvard roommate in this incendiary novel from the author of Beautiful Country-a... -
The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China by Gang Yue 9780822323419
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.71The Chinese ideogram chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb "to eat." Chi can also be read as "the mouth that begs for food and words." A concept manifest in the... -
One Day Three Autumns Liu 9781838905835
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.26The people of Yanjin know to always have a few jokes on hand.For three thousand years, they have been terrorised by Hua Erniang, a forsaken spirit that rules over their dreams. Failing to amuse this... -
Rose, Rose, I Love You: A Novel by Wang Chen-ho
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $85.58In 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... -
Forbidden Games and Video Poems: The Poetry of Yang Mu and Lo Ch'ing by Yang Mu 9780295972633
RRP: $45.09Booksplease Price: $43.25Two 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... -
Notes of a Desolate Man by T'ien-Wen Chu 9780231116091
RRP: $27.03Booksplease Price: $22.07Winner 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... -
A Single Swallow by Zhang Ling
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.67The eagerly awaited English translation of award-winning author Zhang Ling's epic and intimate novel about the devastation of war, forgiveness, redemption, and the enduring power of love. On the... -
The Colonel and the Eunuch Mai Jia 9781804540282
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66The phenomenal #1 Chinese bestseller, with over 4 million copies sold. This is a searing exploration of what makes a hero: a literary masterpiece, available in the English language for the very first... -
A Perfect Crime by A. Yi
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98A chilling literary thriller about a motiveless murder in provincial China 'One of the most important voices to emerge from the People's Republic in years' Daily Express On a normal day in... -
Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas: A Chinese Classic by Anonymous
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $22.15The gorgeously illustrated contemporary edition of an ancient Chinese text-for fans of fantastic beasts everywhere Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas is a new translation for contemporary... -
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen GreenblattA transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe,... -
The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature by Kirk Denton 9780231170093
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $44.70The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895-1911) to the present. The volume opens... -
Masculinity Besieged?: Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century by Xueping Zhong 9780822324423
Booksplease Price: $40.13In Masculinity Besieged? Xueping Zhong looks at Chinese literature and films produced during the 1980s to examine male subjectivities in contemporary China. Reading through a feminist psychoanalytic... -
The Lost Garden: A Novel by Li Ang
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $85.97The Lost Garden is an eloquent portrait of the losses incurred as we struggle to hold on to our passions. The novel begins with the family of Zhu Yinghong, whose father, Zhu Zuyan, was imprisoned in... -
The Lost Garden: A Novel by Li Ang 9780231175555
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.96The Lost Garden is an eloquent portrait of the losses incurred as we struggle to hold on to our passions. The novel begins with the family of Zhu Yinghong, whose father, Zhu Zuyan, was imprisoned in... -
Fu Ping: A Novel Anyi Wang 9780231193238
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.99Nainai has lived in Shanghai for many years, and the time has come to find a wife for her adopted grandson. But when the bride she has chosen arrives from the countryside, it soon becomes clear that... -
The Piano Tuner: A Novel by Chiang-Sheng Kuo
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38This 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... -
Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century by Xudong Zhang 9780822342304
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33In Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, Xudong Zhang offers a critical analysis of China's "long 1990s," the tumultuous years between the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and China's entry into the... -
A New Literary History of Modern China by David Der-Wei Wang
RRP: $48.96Booksplease Price: $43.11Literature, from the Chinese perspective, makes manifest the cosmic patterns that shape and complete the world-a process of "worlding" that is much more than mere representation. In that spirit, A... -
Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu: Modern Tales of a Chinese Romantic by Xu Xu 9781611720556
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Xu Xu (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s. His popular urban gothic tales, his exotic spy fiction, and his quasi-existentialist love stories full of... -
The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang by Perhat Tursun 9780231202916
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.03The Backstreets is an astonishing novel by a preeminent contemporary Uyghur author who was disappeared by the Chinese state. It follows an unnamed Uyghur man who comes to the impenetrable Chinese... -
The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang by Perhat Tursun
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $69.85The Backstreets is an astonishing novel by a preeminent contemporary Uyghur author who was disappeared by the Chinese state. It follows an unnamed Uyghur man who comes to the impenetrable Chinese...