Chinese Fiction
Soul Mountain
$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... Buy or find out more →
War Trash
$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... Buy or find out more →
Fortress Besieged
$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... Buy or find out more →
Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress
$24.95 – 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 ... Buy or find out more →
Lust Caution And Other Stories
$0.00 – 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. Buy or find out more →
A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers
$24.99 – 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... Buy or find out more →
Uninvited
$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 ... Buy or find out more →
Miss Chopsticks
$39.95 – Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus
Xue Xinran is one of those amazing women who can change peoples 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 coun... Buy or find out more →
Serve The People
$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... Buy or find out more →
Binu And The Great Wall
$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... Buy or find out more →
February Flowers
$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... Buy or find out more →
Concise Chinese English Dictionary For Lovers
$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... Buy or find out more →
I Love Dollars And Other Stories
$10.00 – 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... Buy or find out more →
Wives Of The East Wind
$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... Buy or find out more →
Beijing Coma
$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... Buy or find out more →