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  • The Song of Everlasting Sorrow

    A Novel of Shanghai

    by Wang Anyi ...
    Translated by Michael Berry, Susan Chan Egan ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    The classic story of a woman in post-World War II China. "[A] complex and penetrating portrayal . . . that best displays [Anyi's] gifts as a novelist."— The New York TimesInfatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao—a girl born of the longtang, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods—seeks fame in the Miss Shanghai beauty pageant. This ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fu Ping

    A Novel

    by Anyi Wang ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Nainai 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 the orphaned girl has ideas of her own. Her name is Fu Ping, and the more she explores the residential lanes and courtyards behind Shanghai’s busy shopping streets, the less she wants to return to the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Book of Shanghai

    A City in Short Fiction

    by Chen Qiufan, Wang Anyi, Xiao Bai, Shen Dacheng, Chen Danyan, Cai Jun, Xia Shang, Teng Xiaolan, Fu Yuehui, Wang Zhanhei ...
    Series series Reading the City
    As the end of the world arrives in downtown Shanghai, one man’s only wish is to return a library book...When a publisher agrees to let a star author use his company’s attic to write in, little does he suspect this will become the author’s permanent residence...As Shanghai succumbs to a seemingly apocalyptic deluge, a man takes refuge in his bathtub, only to find himself, moments later, floating ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

  • I Love Bill and Other Stories

    by Anyi Wang ...
    Translated by Todd Foley ...
    I Love Bill and Other Stories showcases the work of Wang Anyi, one of China's most prolific and highly regarded writers, in two novellas and three short stories.A young artist's life spirals out of control when she drops out of school to pursue a series of unfulfilling relationships with foreign men. A performance troupe struggles to adapt to a changing China at the end of the Cultural Revolution. ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Fu Ping

    A Novel

    by Anyi Wang ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Nainai 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 the orphaned girl has ideas of her own. Her name is Fu Ping, and the more she explores the residential lanes and courtyards behind Shanghai’s busy shopping streets, the less she wants to return to the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Red Is Not the Only Color

    Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex between Women, Collected Stories

    by Patricia Sieber, Chen Ran, Chen Xue, He An, Hong Ling, Liang Hanyi, Wang Anyi, Wong Bikwan, Zhang Mei ...
    Series series Asian Voices
    The first English-language anthology of its kind, Red Is Not the Only Color offers a window into the uncharted terrain of intimate relations between Chinese women. As urban China has undergone rapid transformation, same-sex relations have emerged as a significant, if previously neglected, touchstone for the exploration of the meaning of social change. The short fiction in this volume highlights ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Socialism Is Great!

    A Worker's Memoir of the New China

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    With a great charm and spirit, "Socialism Is Great!" recounts Lijia Zhang's rebellious journey from disillusioned factory worker to organizer in support of the Tiananmen Square demonstrators, to eventually become the writer and journalist she was always determined to be. Her memoir is like a brilliant minature illuminating the sweeping historical forces at work in China after the Cultural ... Read more

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  • Bamboo Shoots After the Rain

    Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of Taiwan

    Edited by Ann C. Carver, Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang ...
    A short story collection hailed as a "welcome and valuable addition to our growing knowledge about the inner lives and literary talents of Chinese women" (Amy Ling, author of Between Worlds: Women Writers of Chinese Ancestry).This remarkable anthology introduces the short fiction of fourteen writers, major figures in the literary movements of three generations, who represent a range of class, ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories

    A Parallel Text

    This book presents Chinese short-short stories in English and Chinese, integrating language learning with cultural studies for intermediate to advanced learners of Mandarin Chinese and students of contemporary Chinese literature. Each chapter begins with a critical introduction, followed by two or more stories in parallel Chinese and English texts; each story is followed by a vocabulary list, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • 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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    Anthem is Ayn Rand’s classic tale of a dystopian future of the great “We”—a world that deprives individuals of a name or independence—that anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.They existed only to serve the state. They were conceived in controlled Palaces of Mating. They died in the Home of the Useless. From cradle to grave, the crowd was one—the great WE.In all ... Read more

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