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Julia Lovell
‘A landmark work giving a global panorama of Mao’s ideology filled with historic events and enlivened by striking characters’ Jonathan Fenby, author of The Penguin History of China Since the…
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Wu Ch'eng-en, Julia Lovell (trans.)
One of the world's greatest fantasy novels and a rollicking classic of Chinese literature, in a sparkling new translation and published in a Clothbound Classics edition.
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Brings together brief biographies of 100 women and men whose activities in the 19th century laid the foundations of modern China and the country's transition from dynastic empire to republic.
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Wu Cheng'en
Before there was The Lord of the Rings, there was China’s Monkey King, one of the all-time great fantasy novels–which Neil Gaiman has said is in the DNA of 1.5…
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A collectible hardcover edition of one of the all-time great fantasy novels-which Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people"-in an acclaimed one-volume translation, and featuring…
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A new and important history of the epic story of the Great Wall of China thatguides the reader through the conquests and cataclysms of the Chinese empire, from the second…
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Lively, erudite and meticulously researched’ Literary Review
In this new history, an acclaimed historian revaluates Maoism, analysing both China’s engagement with the movement and its legacy on a global canvas. Starting from the movement’s birth in northwest…
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Han Shaogong
One of the most-talked about works of fiction to emerge from China in recent years, this novel about an urban youth displaced to a small village in rural China during…
Wen Zhu
The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan moves between anarchic campuses, maddening communist factories, and the victims of China’s economic miracle to showcase the absurdity, injustice, and socialist Gothic…
Yan Lianke
A paperback original imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Cultural creativity in China between 1796 and 1912 demonstrated extraordinary resilience in a time of warfare, land shortages, famine, and uprisings. Innovation can be seen in material culture (including print…
Cultural creativity in China between 1796 and 1912 demonstrated extraordinary resilience in a time of warfare, land shortages, famine and uprisings. Innovation can be seen in material culture (including print…
Lu Xun
Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. This book presents translations of…
Zhu Wen
Depicts the violence, chaos, and dark comedy of China in the post-Mao era. This book offers an account of the often hedonistic individualism that is taking root. It depicts a…
Julia Cecilia Stretton
In Three Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we…
Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.
Xinran
In this volume, Xinran recreates Shuwen’s extraordinary search for her missing husband, Kejun in Tibet. It follows her entry into a landscape that nothing had prepared her for and her…
Haijian Mao
The Opium War of 1839-42 is a subject of enduring interest. The Chinese historian Mao Haijian presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and its main Chinese protagonists, offering a…
