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Jia Pingwa
New English edition of the 1996 novel from one of China’s most popular writers. A raucous and at times achingly poignant tale combining earthy humour, ancient wisdom and thrilling action.
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Following Hai Ruo, the owner of the teashop, and her sisterhood of a dozen friends. Plagued by unhappy relationships with men and their struggles with business and politics.
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Jia Pingwa is one of the best-known and most prolific writers in contemporary China. This collection brings together his most celebrated prose essays in their first English translation.
Yiyan Wang
Jia Pingwa’s novels have caused both fame and controversy throughout the Chinese speaking world. This pioneering study examines the corpus of Pingwa’s writings, emphasizing his importance, prominence and relevance to…
Chen Zhongshi,Jia Pingwa
In this captivating collection from the Shaanxi region, considered the cradle of Chinese civilization, twenty disparate and unique voices come together to show a China caught between new-world advancements and…
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In this dazzling, earthy novel, Pingwa presents an unforgettable chronicle of rural China, a world at once utterly alien and uncannily familiar. Called impressive and revealing ( Kirkus Reviews), Turbulence…
Modern master Jia Pingwa’s novel which retells the turbulent birth of modern China from its rural margins. High in the mountains of central China a dying funeral singer tells four…
Broken Wings tells the story of Butterfly, who is kidnapped and taken to a remote mountain village devoid of young women. There, she is imprisoned and, later, raped in the…
First published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2017.
Winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize.
From one of China’s most celebrated authors comes a masterful novel about modernity and tradition, love and obsession, and economic change and quixotic…
