Family by Ba Jin – The first half of the 20th century was a period of great turmoil in China, with thousands of years of established civilization being uprooted by a radical socialist revolution.
Capturing Chinese Short Stories from Lu Xun’s Nahan
Finally a book to help you read original Chinese literature. Footnotes highlight the more difficult vocabulary and pinyin is provided for the entire text. There …
The Mouth that Begs
Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China
The Four Books
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2016‘One of China’s greatest living authors and fiercest satirists’ Guardian In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling labour …
The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature: Writings from the Mainland in the Long Twentieth Century
A panoramic vision of the Chinese literary landscape across the twentieth century. Award-winning literary scholar and poet Yunte Huang here gathers together an intimate and …
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In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Mo Yan, a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice’s tale of depravity, violence, …