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  • China Dream

    by Ma Jian ...
    Translated by Flora Drew ...
    Blending fact and fiction, this darkly comic fable “may be the purest distillation yet of Mr. Ma’s talent for probing the country’s darkest corners and exposing what he regards as the Communist Party’s moral failings” (Mike Ives, The New York Times).Called “Red Guards meet Kurt Vonnegut . . . powerful!" by Margaret Atwood on Twitter, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. Ma ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Dark Road

    A Novel

    by Ma Jian ...
    Translated by Flora Drew ...
    From one of world literature’s most courageous voices, a novel about the human cost of China’s one-child policy through the lens of one rural family on the run from its reachFar away from the Chinese economic miracle, from the bright lights of Beijing and Shanghai, is a vast rural hinterland, where life goes on much as it has for generations, with one extraordinary difference: “normal” parents are ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Red Dust

    A Path Through China

    by Ma Jian ...
    In 1983, at the age of thirty, dissident artist Ma Jian finds himself divorced by his wife, separated from his daughter, betrayed by his girlfriend, facing arrest for “Spiritual Pollution,” and severely disillusioned with the confines of life in Beijing. So with little more than a change of clothes and two bars of soap, Ma takes off to immerse himself in the remotest parts of China. His journey ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Beijing Coma

    A Novel

    by Ma Jian ...
    Dai Wei has been unconscious for almost a decade. A medical student and a pro-democracy protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, he was struck by a soldier's bullet and fell into a deep coma. As soon as the hospital authorities discovered that he had been an activist, his mother was forced to take him home. She allowed pharmacists access to his body and sold his urine and his left kidney to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Noodle Maker

    A Novel

    by Ma Jian ...
    From Ma Jian, the highly acclaimed Chinese dissident, comes a satirical novel about the absurdities of life in a post-Tiananmen China.Two men meet for dinner each week. Over the course of one of these drunken evenings, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had he the courage: a young man buys an old kiln and opens a private crematorium, delighting in his ability to harass the corpses of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Fault Diagnosis and Prognostics Based on Cognitive Computing and Geometric Space Transformation

    by Chen Lu, Laifa Tao, Jian Ma, Yujie Cheng, Yu Ding ...
    Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
    This monograph introduces readers to new theories and methods applying cognitive computing and geometric space transformation to the field of fault diagnosis and prognostics. It summarizes the basic concepts and technical aspects of fault diagnosis and prognostics technology. Existing bottleneck problems are examined, and the advantages of applying cognitive computing and geometric space ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Stick Out Your Tongue

    by Ma Jian ...
    "Extraordinary. . . [Ma Jian] has shown us how poverty and political repression have deformed [Tibet's] once rich and vibrant culture." —Francine Prose, PeopleIn this profound work of fiction, a Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tibetan woman who died during childbirth, shares a tent with a nomad ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Forest Carbon Practices and Low Carbon Development in China

    Edited by Zhi Lu, Xiaoquan Zhang, Jian Ma, Caifu Tang ...
    This is the first book illustrating China’s forest carbon projects. It includes an analysis of the policy and future development trends of China’s forest carbon market and showcases the country’s most representative forest carbon projects. Accordingly, it offers a valuable resource for all policymakers and researchers interested in forest carbon, as well as project developers and engineers ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Research in Computational Molecular Biology

    28th Annual International Conference, RECOMB 2024, Cambridge, MA, USA, April 29–May 2, 2024, Proceedings

    Edited by Jian Ma ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, RECOMB 2024, held in Cambridge, MA, USA, during April 29–May 2, 2024.The 57 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 352 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: theoretical and foundational algorithm ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    China Dream

    by Ma Jian ...
    Narrated by David Shih ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 30 min

    A Financial Times Best Book of the YearBlending fact and fiction, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, is feeling pleased with himself. He has an impressive office, three properties, and multiple mistresses who text him day and night. After decades of loyal service, he has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Stories of Loss and Love

    by Xinran ...
    Following her internationally bestselling book The Good Women of China, Xinran has written one of the most powerful accounts of the lives of Chinese women. Her searing stories of mothers who have been driven to abandon their daughters or give them up for adoption is a masterful and significant work of literary reportage and oral history.Xinran has gained entrance to the most pained, secret ... Read more

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  • Life and Death in Shanghai

    by Nien Cheng ...
    A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution.A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution. Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 and subsequently jailed. All attempts to make her confess to the charges of being a British spy failed; all efforts to indoctrinate her were met by a ... Read more

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