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The Sojourn Teashop by Jia Pingwa
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.96Morning brings new and old faces to Hai Ruo's teashop. The premium leaves she sells to Xijing's high society keep the doors open, however it's her Sisterhood - a dozen glamorous confidants who visit... -
Broken Wings by Jia Pingwa 9781910760451
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68Despite her humble rural beginnings, Butterfly regards herself as a sophisticated young woman. So, when offered a lucrative job in the city, she jumps at the chance.But instead of being given work,... -
The Earthen Gate by Jia Pingwa 9781912436699
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436699Author Jia PingwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley... -
The Sojourn Teashop by Jia, Pingwa 9781838905309
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.55Morning brings new and old faces to Hai Ruo’s teashop. The premium leaves she sells to Xijing’s high society keep the doors open, however it’s her Sisterhood – a dozen glamorous confidants who visit... -
The Wild Land by Jia Pingwa 9781912436729
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436729Author Jia PingwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley... -
Old Kiln Jia, Pingwa 9781838905262
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.851966, China is on the cusp of a decade of upheaval, and the furnaces of Old Kiln have never been this cold. The village's once-famed ceramics production has almost ground to a halt. Only ancient... -
The Mountain Whisperer Jia Pingwa 9781910760697
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19In a cave high in the ageless mountains of China's desolate interior, an ancient funeral singer awaits the end. From his deathbed he gives voice to the generations of villagers to whom he devoted his... -
Happy Dreams by Jia Pingwa 9781611097429
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.67From one of China's foremost authors, Jia Pingwa's Happy Dreams is a powerful depiction of life in industrializing contemporary China, in all its humor and pathos, as seen through the eyes of Happy... -
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 Shaanxi Opera: A Novel by Jia Pingwa
Booksplease Price: $21.90Winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize. From one of China's most celebrated authors comes a masterful novel about modernity and tradition, love and obsession, and economic change and quixotic... -
The Mountain Whisperer by Jia Pingwa 9781838905255
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.22In a cave high in the ageless mountains of China's desolate interior, an ancient funeral singer awaits the end. From his deathbed he gives voice to the generations of villagers to whom he devoted his... -
Narrating China: Jia Pingwa and his Fictional World by Yiyan Wang 9780415655682
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $55.03Jia Pingwa, whose novels have caused both fame and controversy, has an enormous readership throughout the Chinese speaking world. However, despite Pingwa's cultural significance and the use of his... -
Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature by Ming Dong Gu
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $60.48The Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature presents a comprehensive overview of Chinese literature from the 1910s to the present day. Featuring detailed studies of selected masterpieces, it... -
Fathoming Translation as Discursive Experience: Theorization and Application by Chunshen Zhu
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $46.80With his positive approach to translation studies featured in this highly original volume, Chunshen Zhu brings into perspective from the vantage point of translation the workings of human factors in... -
Asian Forms of the Nation by Stein Tonnesson
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $69.40The general tendency among theorists in nationalism and national identity has been to assume that the modernization process in Asia and Africa is a kind of distorted reflection of a Western... -
Women Writers in Postsocialist China by Kay Schaffer
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $54.49What does it mean to read from elsewhere? Women Writers in Postsocialist China introduces readers to a range and variety of contemporary Chinese women's writing, which has seen phenomenal growth in... -
Modern Chinese Writers: Self-portrayals: Self-portrayals by Helmut Martin 9780873328173
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $40.66This volume gathers personal reflections on life and literature by 44 of China's leading authors. It aims to illustrate how Chinese society and its creative writing have supported, competed and... -
Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture: Cannibalizations of the Canon by Carlos Rojas
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $68.29Through analyses of a wide range of Chinese literary and visual texts from the beginning of the twentieth century through the contemporary period, the thirteen essays in this volume challenge the... -
Asian Masculinities: The Meaning and Practice of Manhood in China and Japan Kam Louie 9780415511087
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.24This book shows how East Asian masculinities are being formed and transformed as Asia is increasingly globalized. The gender roles performed by Chinese and Japanese men are examined not just as they... -
Mapping Media in China: Region, Province, Locality by Wanning Sun
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68Mapping Media in China is the first book-length study that goes below the 'national' scale to focus on the rich diversity of media in China from local, provincial and regional angles. China's media... -
China Briefing, 1990 by Anthony Kane 9780367165482
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.81This book analyzes the key events and trends in Chinese affairs during the year 1989. It includes special chapters on Hong Kong, which was dramatically affected by the year's events, and Tibet, which... -
The Transformation Of Socialism: Perestroika And Reform In The Soviet Union And China by Melvin Gurtov
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.81This book is based on Conference on the Transformation of Socialism in the Soviet Union and China, and reveals a second feature of the conference: the candor of the presentations. It discusses the... -
The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China: China's Freudian Slip Tao Jiang 9781138108899
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $63.65Although Freud makes only occasional, brief references to China and Chinese culture in his works, for almost a hundred years many leading Chinese intellectuals have studied and appropriated various... -
Elephant Herd: A Novel Guixing Zhang 9780231211697
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.96Elephant Herd is a vivid and captivating novel by the Taiwan-based Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) writer Zhang Guixing, whose distinctive style evokes the jungles of Southeast Asia. It is an atmospheric... -
Elephant Herd: A Novel Guixing Zhang 9780231211680
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $93.43Elephant Herd is a vivid and captivating novel by the Taiwan-based Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) writer Zhang Guixing, whose distinctive style evokes the jungles of Southeast Asia. It is an atmospheric...