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Frog by Mo Yan
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Frog 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... -
Sandalwood Death: A Novel by Yan Mo 9780806143392
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.47This 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... -
Change by Mo Yan 9780857421609
Booksplease Price: $17.57Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan 9780413775313
Booksplease Price: $13.96The 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: $19.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611457353Author Mo YanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Shifu, You'll do Anything for a Laugh by Mo Yan 9780413771193
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.89Shifu, 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: $20.82Today'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... -
I Name Him Me: Selected Poems of Ma Yan by Mo Yan
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $16.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946433749Author Ma YanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw 9780007494187 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $1.31Longlisted 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... -
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10Longlisted 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 Gale Yan Mo 9781665930628
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41This 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... -
Someone to Talk To: A Novel by Liu Zhenyun 9780822370833
RRP: $41.54Booksplease Price: $35.67Tofu 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... -
Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up by Xiaolu Guo
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68*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... -
Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century by Xudong Zhang
Booksplease Price: $104.71In 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: $104.71Subtotal: -
Market Street: A Chinese Woman in Harbin by Hong Xiao 9780295994239
RRP: $33.43Booksplease Price: $32.71Back 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... -
How to Read a Novelist: Conversations with Writers by John Freeman 9781472109378
Booksplease Price: $27.74For 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: $91.12Booksplease Price: $74.10The 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... -
Lucien: A Novel by J.R. Thornton 9780063458437
Booksplease Price: $16.58A 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... -
One Day Three Autumns Liu 9781838905835
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.73The 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... -
A Single Swallow by Zhang Ling
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.00The 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37A 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: $29.48Booksplease Price: $23.01The 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: $56.28Booksplease Price: $52.73The 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 Piano Tuner: A Novel by Chiang-Sheng Kuo
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.10This 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... -
Fu Ping: A Novel by Anyi Wang 9780231193238
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $22.85Nainai 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... -
Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century by Xudong Zhang 9780822342120 [USED COPY]
RRP: $125.96Booksplease Price: $14.07In 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... -
Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu: Modern Tales of a Chinese Romantic by Xu Xu 9781611720556
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Introducing the works of a major Chinese writer-liberal, cosmopolitan, and lyrically exotic-once banned but now embraced, and newly "discovered" in the West. Xu Xu (1908-1980) was one of the most... -
The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang by Perhat Tursun 9780231202916
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.77The 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...