25+ Essential Books for a Broader Understanding of China
Some of the Best Chinese Books to Explore the Many Facets of China. Two Millennia of Storytelling: Essential Picks from Chinese Literature. China’s narrative, spanning … Read more
People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature. Mo Yan
Author: Mo Yan. Origin: The Republic of Wine, chapter 3, page. 25 “People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”― Mo … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Pow!
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, … Read more
