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“mu xin”

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  • An Empty Room

    Stories

    by Mu Xin ...
    Translated by Toming Jun Liu ...
    A dazzling cycle of short stories by one of China’s most revered contemporary writers and one of the world’s leading artist-intellectuals.An Empty Room is the first book by the celebrated Chinese writer Mu Xin to appear in English. A cycle of thirteen tenderly evocative stories written while Mu Xin was living in exile, this collection is reminiscent of the structural beauty of Hemingway’s In Our ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

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  • Capturing the Silken Thief

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  • The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry

    From Ancient to Contemporary, The Full 3000-Year Tradition

    Edited by Tony Barnstone, Chou Ping ...
    Unmatched in scope and literary quality, this landmark anthology spans three thousand years, bringing together more than six hundred poems by more than one hundred thirty poets, in translations–many new and exclusive to the book–by an array of distinguished translators.Here is the grand sweep of Chinese poetry, from the Book of Songs–ancient folk songs said to have been collected by Confucius ... Read more

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  • Lust, Caution

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    by Eileen Chang, Ang Lee ...
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  • The Ministry of Pain

    A Novel

    by Dubravka Ugrešic ...
    Translated by Michael Henry Heim ...
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  • Painting Chinese

    A Lifelong Teacher Gains the Wisdom of Youth

    by Herbert Kohl ...
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  • Peking Story

    The Last Days of Old China

    by John Lanchester, David Kidd ...
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  • Iron and Silk

    A Memoir

    by Mark Salzman ...
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  • Sky, Wind, and Stars

    by Yun Dong-ju, Kyung-nyun Kim Richards, Steffen R. Richards ...
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  • Feathered Serpent

    A Novel

    by Xu Xiaobin ...
    Translated by John Howard-Gibbon, Joanne Wang ...
    ONE OF THE FOREMOST WORKS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINESE LITERATUREThis beautifully portrayed epic family history spans one hundred years, from the 1890s during the later stages of the Qing Dynasty to the 1990s, traversing the experiences of five generations of women. Yu is the central character, whose life story is woven through the lives of her grandmother, mother, sisters, and niece. She loves ... Read more

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