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“xiaobin xu”

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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

    $13.99 USD

  • Dunhuang Dream

    by Xu Xiaobin ...
    Named one of the Top Ten Novels of the Year in China, this award-winning novel is about three tourists who fall into a strange entanglement of love.Set against the magical backdrop of Dunhuang, China, home to thousands of painted cave murals, Dunhuang Dreams magically blends the stories of three protagonists: Xiao Xingxing, a talented young female artist, Zhang Shu, a laboratory technician from a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Crystal Wedding

    by Xiaobin Xu ...
    Translated by Nicky Harman ...
    Yang Tianyi is a “leftover woman” and under pressure to find a husband. She is attractive and intelligent but knows little of the world, and finally makes a disastrous marriage to a man, Wang Lian. At the end of the 1980s, in Tiananmen Square, she meets her love Hua Zheng again. However, after the political turmoil, Hua Zheng is framed as one of the perpetrators of the disturbances, and is ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong (Novel) Vol. 1

    by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ...
    Series Book 1 - The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong (Novel)
    Half-demon Luo Binghe rose from humble beginnings and a tortured past to become unrivaled in strength and beauty. With his dominion over both the Human and Demon Realms and his hundreds-strong harem, he is truly the most powerful protagonist...in a trashy webnovel series!At least, that's what Shen Yuan believes as he finishes reading the final chapter in Proud Immortal Demon Way. But when a bout ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Girl with Seven Names

    A North Korean Defector’s Story

    by Hyeonseo Lee ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom.As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime. Her home on the border with China ... Read more

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  • The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong (Novel) Vol. 3

    by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ...
    Series Book 3 - The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong (Novel)
    To save his sect from destruction, Shen Qingqiu has at last submitted to Luo Binghe--though he wishes people would stop saying it like that! Unfortunately, they're not wrong.Luo Binghe has finally made his desire for his old master clear. For all that Shen Qingqiu longs to return to their peaceful days together on Qing Jing Peak, he knows it's impossible now that Luo Binghe has darkened into a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong (Novel) Vol. 4

    by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ...
    Series Book 4 - The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong (Novel)
    What happens after an epic tale ends? This collection of eleven short stories picks up days after Scum Villain's finale and follows the cast's relationships and adventures through their pasts and futures. The first trial? A glimpse into another world, where Luo Binghe was never saved by his beloved teacher--unless he can claim this world's Shen Qingqiu for himself. Other tales recount the riotous ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

    $12.99 USD

  • Zhuangzi: Basic Writings

    by Zhuangzi ...
    Translated by Burton Watson ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Only by inhabiting Dao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can humankind achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life and death. This is Daoist philosophy's central tenet, espoused by the person—or group of people—known as Zhuangzi (369?–286? BCE) in a text by the same name. To be free, individuals must discard rigid distinctions between right and wrong, and follow a course of action ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Don't Cry, Tai Lake

    by Qiu Xiaolong ...
    Series Book 7 - Inspector Chen Cao
    **"Dark, gorgeous…feels authentically Chinese and it works like a charm." --Washington Post Book World on A Case of Two CitiesChief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is offered a bit of luxury by friends and supporters within the Party – a week's vacation at a luxurious resort near Lake Tai, a week where he can relax, and recover, undisturbed by outside demands or disruptions. ... Read more

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  • Opening the Dragon Gate

    The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard

    by Chen Kaiguo, Zheng Shunchao ...
    Translated by Thomas Cleary ...
    This authorized biography of the contemporary Taoist expert Wang Liping (1949 -) tells the true story of his apprenticeship in Taoist wizardry, as well as Taoist principles and secrets of inner transformation.The 18th-generation transmitter of Dragon Gate Taoism, Wang Liping is heir to a tradition of esoteric knowledge and practice accumulated and refined over eleven centuries. This is the first ... Read more

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