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Pow! by Mo Yan
Booksplease Price: £18.80In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Mo Van, a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family... -
Frog by Mo Yan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Frog is a richly complex new novel about China's one-child policy by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012.Gugu is beautiful, charismatic and of an unimpeachable political background... -
Change by Mo Yan 9780857421609
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Mo Yan Speaks: Lectures and Speeches by the Nobel Laureate from China by Mo Yan 9781621966203
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.14Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Frog: A Novel by Mo Yan 9780143128380
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.33Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Sandalwood Death: A Novel by Yan Mo 9780806143392
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.77This powerful novel by Mo Yan - one of contemporary China's most famous and prolific writers - is both a stirring love story and an unsparing critique of political corruption during the final years... -
Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan 9780413775313
Booksplease Price: £10.42The peasants of Paradise County in China have been eking out an existence virtually unchanged for hundreds of years, until a glut on the garlic market forces them to watch the crop that is their... -
Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh by Mo Yan
Booksplease Price: £14.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611457353Author Mo YanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Big Breasts & Wide Hips by Mo Yan 9781611453430
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Shifu, You'll do Anything for a Laugh by Mo Yan 9780413771193
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh is a collection of eight compelling short stories written over the past twenty years: surrealistic political fables, ghost stories, tales of failed and perverse... -
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out: A Novel Mo Yan 9781611454277
Booksplease Price: £16.13Today's most revered, feared, and controversial Chinese novelist offers a tour de force in which the real, the absurd, the comical, and the tragic are blended into a fascinating read. The hero-or... -
Mo Yan in Context: Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller by Angelica Duran 9781557536815
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In 2012 the Swedish Academy announced that Mo Yan had received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work that "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history, and the contemporary." The... -
I Name Him Me: Selected Poems of Ma Yan by Mo Yan
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946433749Author Ma YanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
A Subversive Voice in China: The Fictional World of Mo Yan by Shelley W Chan 9781604977196
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Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to China's most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic novel. Welcome to Shanghai. A restless... -
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Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw 9780007494187 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £0.98Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to China's most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic novel. Welcome to Shanghai. A restless... -
The Bathing Women by Tie Ning 9780007489886
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize A modern Chinese classic Sisters Tiao and Fan grew up in the... -
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Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw 9780007494156 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.94In the Man Booker prize-longlisted 'Five Star Billionaire' Tash Aw charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves in sprawling Shanghai. Justin is... -
Open-Air Cinema: Reminiscences and Micro-Essays from the author of Raise the Red Lantern by Su Tong 9781838905248
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28By turns flexible and delicate, taciturn and effusive, this collection of memoirs and micro-essays project in filmic clarity the cool head, dry wit and social conscience that have made Su Tong the... -
The Gale Yan Mo 9781665930628
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26This contemplative, semiautobiographical picture book by Nobel Laureate Mo Yan, with illustrations by Hans Christian Anderson Award nominee Zhu Chengliang, is perfect for readers of A Different Pond... -
Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up by Xiaolu Guo
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.46*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award* *Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award**Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize**Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018**A Sunday Times Book of... -
Someone to Talk To: A Novel by Liu Zhenyun 9780822370833
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62Tofu peddler Yang Baishun is a man of few words and few friends. Unable to find meaningful companionship, he settles for a marriage of convenience. When his wife leaves him for another man he is left... -
Someone to Talk To: A Novel by Liu Zhenyun 9780822370680
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.82Tofu peddler Yang Baishun is a man of few words and few friends. Unable to find meaningful companionship, he settles for a marriage of convenience. When his wife leaves him for another man he is left... -
Re-Thinking Literary China: A Festschrift in Honor of Andrea Riemenschnitter Jessica Imbach 9783111450377
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £59.48Re-Thinking Literary China celebrates Andrea Riemenschnitter's scholarly career and her influence on Chinese literary studies in Europe. Featuring contributions from colleagues, friends, and former... -
Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century by Xudong Zhang
Booksplease Price: £78.14In 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...Qty in Cart: 0Price:Booksplease Price: £78.14Subtotal: -
The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters by Megan Walsh
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64What 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... -
Market Street: A Chinese Woman in Harbin by Hong Xiao 9780295994239
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.41Back 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... -
Ideology, Power, Text: Self-Representation and the Peasant 'Other' in Modern Chinese Literature by Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker 9780804733199
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.82The 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... -
Optimism, Literature, and Culture in American Capitalism and Chinese Socialism Wendy Larson 9780198957928
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £70.68This 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... -
Visions of Dystopia in China's New Historical Novels by Jeffrey C. Kinkley 9780231167680
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.55The 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... -
The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China by Gang Yue 9780822323419
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91The 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... -
Lucien: A Novel by J.R. Thornton 9780063458437
Booksplease Price: £12.41A 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... -
Forbidden Games and Video Poems: The Poetry of Yang Mu and Lo Ch'ing by Yang Mu 9780295972633
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £33.53Two 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... -
One Day Three Autumns Liu 9781838905835
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.50The 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: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.34In 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... -
A Single Swallow by Zhang Ling
Booksplease Price: £10.13The 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... -
A Perfect Crime by A. Yi
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74A 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: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.17The 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... -
The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature by Kirk Denton 9780231170093
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.65The 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... -
The Lost Garden: A Novel by Li Ang
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.64The 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...