World Literature from China, forthcoming titles:
Bat Scent by Cao Wenxuan (曹文轩), translated by Helen Wang
Diablo’s Boys by Yang Hao (杨好), translated by Nicky Harman and Michael Day
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Bearing Word
- GBP 11.99
- by Liu Liangcheng Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang The world is full of ghosts, but only donkeys can see them. Meanwhile, in the human world, war has been waging for a hundred years with no resolution in sight, the death toll climbing higher and higher like the pagodas of sound built by donkeys braying and humans chanting scripture.…
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Diablo’s Boys
- by Yang Hao Translated from the Chinese by Nicky Harman and Michael Day Suwei is a teenage hermit with an overprotective mother and an addiction to video games. One day, another young man penetrates Suwei's hermetically sealed existence, and the two wander deep into the labyrinth of Diablo's virtual world. As Suwei and this enigmatic interloper, Li Wen, form an…
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Diasporic
- Short Stories by Soon Ai Ling, Translated from the Chinese by Yeo Wei Wei Traditional Chinese cuisine, jade, batik, embroidery, and horticulture. In Soon Ai Ling’s fiction, newly translated into English by Yeo Wei Wei, the lives of twentieth-century Chinese diaspora unravel in the midst of emblems and environments resplendent with cultural influences from East and Southeast Asia. Life is…
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Dinner for Six
- GBP 12.99
- by Lu Min Translated from the Chinese by Nicky Harman and Helen Wang Under the stench of factory skies, two single parents and their four teenaged children gather together for Saturday dinners. But can widowed accountant Su Qin ever publicly acknowledge her socially-mismatched relationship with Ding Bogang, a laid-off manual worker? Can she bear to see her ambitious and studious…
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Flowers of Lhasa
- GBP 12.99
- by Tsering Yangkyi Translated from the Tibetan by Christopher Peacock Winner of English Pen Award Flowers of Lhasa is a stark and urgent tale of four young women thrown into the seedy underbelly of a sacred city undergoing rapid change. After coming to the big city to look for work, a tragedy befalls Drölkar and leads her to a nightclub…
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Clan
- Short Stories by Soon Ai Ling, Adapted and Transcreated from the Chinese by Yeo Wei Wei The past gets in the way of present and future possibilities, yet without it, what hope is there for self-knowing and wisdom? These questions are explored in Yeo Wei Wei’s transcreation and adaptation of Soon Ai Ling’s stories. Characters are caught up in private…
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The Strength of Water
- GBP 12.99
- — An Asian American Coming of Age Memoir by Karin K. Jensen Water is fluid, soft, yielding. But water will wear away rock...what is soft is strong. — Lao Tzu In 1920s Detroit, King Ying stands on a box to iron clothes in her parent’s laundry business and endures taunts of Ching-Ching Chinaman on the playground. She dreams of a…
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Flight of the Bumblebee
- GBP 11.99
- by Huang Beijia Translated from the Chinese by Nicky Harman Nanjing, China, 1937. Eight-year-old Orange is uprooted from her comfortable home when the family is forced to flee from Japanese bombing raids. They take refuge in Chengdu, West China, where she grows up with her professor father, hard-working mother, two sisters, two brothers and Tianlu, a war orphan. At…
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Forget Me
- Madame Qian Xiuling: The Belgian Schindler by Xu Feng Translated from the Chinese by Kyle Anderson Born in 1912, Qian Xiuling displayed exceptional academic prowess from a young age. Inspired by the achievements of Marie Curie, she departed China at the age of 17, earning a dual doctorate in physics and chemistry from the University of Louvain. During her time…
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The Chilli Bean Paste Clan
- GBP 13.99
- by Yan Ge English Pen Translates Award Set in a fictional town in West China, this is the story of the Duan-Xue family, owners of the lucrative chilli bean paste factory, and their formidable matriarch. As Gran’s eightieth birthday approaches, her middle-aged children get together to make preparations. Family secrets are revealed and long-time sibling rivalries flare up with renewed…
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The Grass House
- by Cao Wenxuan Translated from the Chinese by Helen Wang One of China's most popular authors of children's fiction, Cao Wenxuan's works are typically set in the China of the 1950s and 60s, and feature children and animals as their main characters. Titles such as The Straw House and Bronze and Sunflower have collectively sold millions of copies in China,…
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The Pidgin Warrior
- GBP 12.99
- by Zhang Tianyi Translated from the Chinese by David Hull “Satiric brilliance and unusual comic verve.” — C. T. Hsia, A History of Modern Chinese Fiction In the 1930s, wartime Shanghai is a cosmopolitan metropolis where conmen and dance-hall girls mingle with refugees streaming in from the occupied areas. One of those refugees is Shi Zhaochang. Having read…
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