He convinces the villagers to set up a travelling freak-show showcasing their disabilities, including Blind Tonghua’s Acute Listening Act, Guess the Age of the Old Man, Deafman Ma’s Firecrackers-on-the-Ear and…

In charge of this process is the Child, who delights in draconian rules, monitoring behaviour and confiscating treasured books. The inmates - and hundreds of intellectuals just like them -…

In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling labour camp, the Author, Musician, Scholar, Theologian and Technician are undergoing Re-education, to restore their revolutionary zeal and credentials. In charge of this…

A breakneck adventure story following the erotic love affair of party cadres Aijun and Hongmei during China’s Cultural Revolution On his return to his village in the Balou Mountains, soldier…

Xie analyses three novels by the international award-winning Chinese writer Yan Lianke and investigates how his signature mythorealist form produces textual meanings that subvert the totalizing reality prescribed by literary…

The English-language nonfiction debut one of China’s most highly regarded writers, winner of the Franz Kafka Prize and twice finalist for the International Booker Prize, Three Brothers is a beautiful…

Multi-prizewinning and internationally acclaimed Yan Lianke – ‘China’s most controversial novelist’ (New Yorker) – returns with a campus novel like no other following a young Buddhist as she journeys through…