Soul Mountain
Gao Xingjian

$24.95 (Paperback book / Harper Perennial )

The worldwide bestselling novel by the winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Soul Mountain is a picaresque novel of immense wisdom and sparse beauty, bursting with knowledge and experience and portraying a cultu... More »

War Trash
Ha Jin

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

War Trash is the unforgettable story of Yu Yuan, a young Chinese army officer sent by Mao with a corps of 'volunteers' to help shore up the Communist side in Korea. When the Americans capture Yu, his command of English p... More »

Women Of The Silk
Gail Tsukiyama

$22.00 (Paperback book / St Martins )

In "Women of the Silk", Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women form a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamour in a vast silk factory from dawn unt... More »

Fortress Besieged
Zhongshu Qian

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese war, Fortress Besieged recounts the exuberant misadventures of the hapless hero Fang Hung-chien, who after aimlessly studying in Europe at his family's expense returns to Shanghai arme... More »

Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress
Dai Sijie

$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

In 1971 Mao's campaign against the intellectuals is at its height. Our narrator and his best friend, Luo, distinctly unintellectual but guilty of being the sons of doctors, have been sent to a remote mountain village to ... More »

Lust Caution And Other Stories
Eileen Chang

$22.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

In 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high society ladies. But China is occupied by invading Japanese forces and things are not always what they seem in wartime. More »

Thousand Years Of Good Prayers
Yiyun Li

$25.00 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )

In this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. In 'Immortality', winner of the Paris Review prize, a young man bears a striking resemblan... More »

Uninvited
Geling Yan

$23.95 (Paperback book / Faber )

Dan, an unemployed factory worker, lives with his wife Little Plum in a squalid suburb of Beijing. When he discovers that by posing as a journalist at corporate events he can eat gourmet food for free, it seems his luck ... More »

Miss Chopsticks
Xinran

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus )

Xue Xinran is one of those amazing women who can change people’s lives. She did it with The Good Women of China and she may well do it again with Miss Chopsticks. This is the wonderful story of three sisters from the c... More »

Serve The People
Yan Lianke

$27.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )

BANNED IN CHINA- THE SEXY, SATIRICAL SENSATION

This sexually charged political satire by one of China's most distinguished authors was instantly banned in its native China, with propaganda ministers enraged by its depict... More »

Binu And The Great Wall
Su Tong

$22.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )

Through Binu's extraordinary story, Su Tong illuminates one of China's most magical myths. It is an unforgettable adventure.

In Peach village, crying is forbidden. But as a child, Binu never learnt to hide her tears. Shu... More »

February Flowers
Fan Wu

$22.95 (Paperback book / Picador )

An unlikely pair, 17-year-old Ming and 24-year-old Yan meet and form an immediate bond. Ming, innocent and preoccupied, lives in her own world of books, music and imagination. Yan is, by contrast, beautiful, sexy, wild a... More »

Concise Chinese English Dictionary For Lovers
Xiaolu Guo

$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an old... More »

Wolf Totem
Jiang Rong

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )

It is the 1960s, and Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote nomadic settlement on the Inner Mongolian grasslands. There, he discovers an age-old synergy between the nomads, their livestock, and the... More »

I Love Dollars And Other Stories
Zhu Wen

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

An immediate sensation upon publication in China, I Love Dollars makes high comedy out of modern everyday life.

 In the title story, a young man, acutely aware of his filial duty, sets out to secure a prostitute for... More »

Wives Of The East Wind
Liu Hong

$23.00 (Paperback book / Headline )

Spanning four decades of Chinese history, Wives of the East Wind is an epic tale of friendships, love, and idealism betrayed. Two couples - Wenya and Zhiying, Zhenzhen and Lao Gao - meet, marry and become inseparable jus... More »

Beijing Coma
Ma Jian

$32.95$27.95 (Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus )

Dai Wei is a medical student and a pro-democracy protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989. Caught by a soldier's bullet, he falls into a deep coma; as soon as the hospital authorities discover he is an activist, his mo... More »