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Graft by Li Peifu 9781838905484
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.601980s, China. Dizzying reforms are sweeping across its Central Plain as the nation is told that to get rich is glorious. Swept up in the hope of a better tomorrow, Li Delin, a brilliant scientist of... -
Old Kiln Jia, Pingwa 9781838905262
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.941966, 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... -
From Purgatory to Paradise: An Oral History of Artist Han Meilin from the Cultural Revolution to the Present Day by Feng Jicai
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62Han Meilin is a titan of contemporary Chinese art, from Olympic mascots to the tails of planes, his works have drawn worldwide recognition. But behind the fame, he was forged in the crucible of... -
The Elm Tree (Volume 2): Winds of Autumn by Ma Pinglai
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910760758Author Ma PinglaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 708Imprint -
All Quiet in Peking: Final Curtain Call: 3 by Liu Heping 9781838905477
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.58All reigns must end, All storms must pass. The crisis in Peking reaches its endgame as the Communists encircle the city. The future looks uncertain for all sides. Inflation is rampant, food is... -
Mutual Strangers: And Other Misadventures in Nanjing Gu Qian 9781838905866
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.27Collecting two decades of remembrances from China's premier literary caricaturist, these short stories offer bite-sized misdeeds committed by Nanjing's underground literati. Freed from family duties,... -
The Passage of Roses Tie Ning 9781838906146
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16While the fervour of the Red Guards consumes 1970s Beijing, Mei comes of age in a once-grand courtyard dominated by her grandmother, a survivor of violence who inflicts the same kind of control upon... -
A Looking-Glass World Feng Jicai 9781838905149
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.151900. For Tianjin's European colonists a profitable new century is dawning, but for the city's downtrodden Chinese natives the Zodiac cycle's end signals imminent catastrophe. Meanwhile the fearsome... -
Slowly the River Flows by Huang Zheng
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.29Along the banks of the Bachi River, a group of teenagers from China’s Zhuang ethnic minority walk the ten-li mountain road to and from school every day. They overcome many obstacles to do well with... -
All Quiet in Peking (Book 2): Behind Closed Doors by Liu, Heping 9781838905453
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62His mission to better the lot of Peking's citizens has put Fang Meng'ao on the radar of Inspector General Zeng Keda, the fearsome and ruthless commander responsible for maintaining order in the city... -
Midnight Stories by Su Tong 9781838905965
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60A raw deal can leave you dead in the water*The life of a country bumpkin is worth no more than a melon?The boat-dwellers upriver have been punting watermelons down to the market by Tiexing bridge for... -
Property of the People Zhou, Meisen 9781838905743
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.90Three siblings, two rundown mines and one dead committee member.Book InformationISBN 9781838905743Author Zhou, MeisenFormat PaperbackImprint -
The Sojourn Teashop by Jia, Pingwa 9781838905309
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Morning 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... -
All Quiet in Peking (Book 1): Under Turbulent Skies by Liu Heping
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Three years after the devastating Pacific War, tensions run thick across China. Inside Peking, groups once aligned against external forces now bicker among themselves. Streets churn as Communists and... -
The 1566 Series: The Defiant Magistrate by Liu Heping
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910760666Author Liu HepingFormat PaperbackImprint -
The The Sons of Red Lake by Zhou Daxin 9781838905439
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838905439Author Zhou DaxinFormat HardbackImprint -
Eastern Concealment by Pu Zong
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.90After a long and difficult trek from the north, the Lu family is finally reunited in Kunming. Yet the war is not yet done with them, and in the furnace of a country driven to the edge, danger still... -
A Man and his Horse by Xie Wenwei 9781910760444
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.23A Man and His Horse is the story of a young man who is forced to flee Beijing during the Cultural Revolution. Coming from an intellectual family that is being torn apart by political campaigns, Wen... -
Faces in the Crowd: 36 Extraordinary Tales of Tianjin by Feng Jicai 9781838905019
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.82The port of Tianjin is where the ancient Chinese empire met the sea. The turn of the 20th century was a tumultuous time for the city, with the Qing dynasty on its last legs and the Boxers unleashing... -
Final Witness: The Story of China's First Crime Scene Investigator by Wang Hongjia
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £19.89Thirteenth century China, and the Song Empire is crumbling due to endemic corruption and the incursion of barbarians from abroad. Ambitious men do what they must to get ahead, trampling the commoners... -
Final Witness: The Story of China's First Crime Scene Investigator Wang Hongjia 9781910760963
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.25Thirteenth century China, and the Song Empire is crumbling due to endemic corruption and the incursion of barbarians from abroad. Ambitious men do what they must to get ahead, trampling the commoners... -
Cloud Farming by Chone Yum Tsering
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.29Two brothers, Tashi and his elder brother, Dawa, tend their family's flock of sheep on the mountainside. Little Tashi tries to help his brother but his head is filled with dreams of going to school,... -
In the Name of the People Zhou Meisen 9781910760734
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60ATTENTION ALL PARTY BODIES OF H PROVINCE: After consultation with relevant authorities it has been determined the local state organs have failed to undeviatingly serve the people of H province, and... -
Between Four Rivers Wang Yu 9781910760505
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.901694: Sichuan is empty, depopulated by war, famine and plague. When the emperor issues a decree asking citizens to re-settle this former land of abundance, Ning Xi takes up the call, vowing to find... -
Fields of Joy Zhou Daxin 9781910760949
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.50"Ning, my dear son, I wasn't ready to say goodbye, but who expects to be struck down in their prime? I should have known that day on the basketball court would be the start of our trials, how the... -
The Sacred Clan by Liang Hong 9781838905613
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60What good is a town without people? Wu Township is hollowing out. Our most capable sons and daughters have long since uprooted from their birthplace on the central plains to fuel China's economic... -
The Walls of Wuchang by Fang Fang 9781838905118
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.641926. Wuhan is in lockdown.Fourteen years ago, its heroes toppled China's last emperor, but at great cost. Patriots became politicians. Reformers became warlords. Now at Wuchang, the ancient walled... -
The Sojourn Teashop by Jia Pingwa
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Morning 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 Mountain Whisperer Jia Pingwa 9781910760697
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45In 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... -
Longevity Park by Zhou Daxin 9781838905293
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.90China is ageing. Its shrinking households, overworked and overstretched, struggle to carry the burden of care for their elderly. Retired Beijing judge Uncle Xiao is one among millions of old-timers... -
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... -
Longevity Park by Zhou Daxin 9781838905200
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28China is ageing. Its shrinking households, overworked and overstretched, struggle to carry the burden of care for their elderly. Retired Beijing judge Uncle Xiao is one among millions of old-timers... -
The 1566 Series: The Chief Eunuch by Liu Heping
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28The fate of the Ming hangs on a knife edge. In the south, defence against relentless pirate raids is escalating into all-out war. The beleaguered Chinese forces must rally for a desperate last stand... -
The Backstage Clan by Chen Yan 9781838905378
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.60All the world's a stage, but someone has to build it. Smooth Diao's day is going anything but. Judging by how the stagehands treat him, you wouldn't guess that he's the foreman who makes sure... -
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... -
Shadow of the Hunter Su Tong 9781910760871
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.29The people of China tell of an ancient tale, where the mantis hunts the cicada, unaware of the yellow bird behind it. In a small corner of one of its many cities, a random act of violence sets off a... -
Faces in the Crowd (The Complete Collection): 54 Extraordinary Tales of Tianjin by Feng, Jicai 9781838906016
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.29The port of Tianjin is where the ancient Chinese empire met the sea. The turn of the 20th century was a tumultuous time for the city, with the Qing dynasty on its last legs and the Boxers unleashing... -
Shadow of the Hunter by Su Tong
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.44The people of China tell of an ancient tale, where the mantis hunts the cicada, unaware of the yellow bird behind it. In a small corner of one of its many cities, a random act of violence sets off a... -
The 1566 Series (Book 1): The Taoist Emperor by Liu Heping
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Something is rotten in the heart of the capital The Ming dynasty is at its zenith. All under heaven bow towards the Forbidden City, where the Celestial Emperor and his servants grace the earth... -
The Mountain Whisperer by Jia Pingwa 9781838905255
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.57In 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...