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Ai, Mingya | Hey 30 | Turning thirty can been seen as a difficult moment in woman's life. Those stories bring a more uplifting perspective of enjouying life and believing in onesef. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/02/2016. Price: £11.95 | ||
Atwood, Margaret | The Handmaid's Tale | |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/12/2017. Price: £17.95 | ||
Bai, Xianyong | Taibei ren | "Taipei People" is the iconic literary work reflecting the experience of people from mainland China who fled to Taiwan following the War of Resistance against Japan and the Chinese Civil War and founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/12/2014. Price: £14.95 | ||
Cai, Jun | Wanru zuori: Shengcun youxi | Bestselling mystery novel. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/04/2017. Price: £14.95 | ||
Cang, Mingshui | Da tang rongyao. Zhenzhu chuanqi (2 vol.) | Bestselling fantasy romance. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/03/2017. Price: £20.95 | ||
Cao, Wenxuan | Yizhi Jiao Feng de Gezi | “A Very Special Pigeon” was selected to be one of the literary texts in the Edexcel AS/AL Chinese exam. The beautiful story is written by Cao Wenxuan, who was honoured as Hans Christian Andersen Award recipient in 2016. Through the traumatic stories of the two little boys and their loves of pigeons, Cao expressed the truth and goodness of human being in life. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/05/2015. Price: £6.95 | ||
Chang, Eileen | The book of change | A young girl moves to Hong Kong to attend a university. In the midst of her studies, the Second World War breaks out and Hong Kong fells to the Japanese army. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/07/2016. Price: £12.95 | ||
Chang, Eileen | Eighteen springs | English title: "Half a lifelong romance". |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2012. Price: £10.95 | ||
Chang, Jung | Empress Dowager Cixi: The concubine who launched modern China | In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Cixi fought against monumental obstacles to change China. Under her the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state: industries, railways, electricity, telegraph, and an army and navy with up-to-date weaponry. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 04/09/2014. Price: £25.95 | ||
Chang, Jung | Wild Swans: Three daughters of China | BESTSELLER. Family history that spans a century, recounting the lives of three female generations in China |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Price: £22.95 | ||
Chen, Xiwo | Maofan shu | English title "The book of sins". |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/08/2017. Price: £13.95 | ||
Dun, Mao | The shop of the Lin family / Spring silkworms | Mao Dun is one of the most celebrated left-wing realist novelists of modern China before the People's Republic of China. He later became Minister of Culture of the PRC between 1949 and 1965. This bilingual edition contains two of his best known works. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 2003. Price: £14.95 | ||
Feng, Tang | Beijing, Beijing: Once upon a time in Beijing. | "Beijing, Beijing" provides an inventive, hilarious, and incisive look into how a culture—and one man—struggle to reconcile their past with the changes brought by modern times. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/07/2017. Price: £12.95 | ||
Gaiman, Neil | American gods | |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/04/2017. Price: £21.95 | ||
Guanzhong, L. | Three kingdoms (vol. 1-4) | Three Kingdoms portrays a fateful moment at the end of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.--A.D. 220), when the future of the Chinese empire laid in the balance. Inspired by often-told tales of this turbulent period, Luo Guanzhong fashioned a sophisticated, compelling narrative with epic grandeur and unique characters. IN ENGLISH. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 1995. Price: £23.95 | ||
Guo, Jingming | Ice fantasy / Huànchéng | When the second prince of the fire tribe, Xin Jue is mysteriously killed during his visit to the Ice Tribe for Ka Suo's coming-of-age ceremony, the Fire King Huo Yi uses this as an excuse to start a second war. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/05/2016. Price: £10.95 | ||
Guoguo, Fresh | Hua qian gu (2 volumes) | "The journey of the flower" is a fantasy love story where the lives of mortals and gods are constantly intertwined. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/06/2015. Price: £19.95 | ||
Han, Han | 1988. Wo xiang he zhege shijie tantan | Bestseller. After a long day of driving, Lu Ziye just wants a good night’s sleep and decides to stop at The Golden Triangle, a seedy but convenient motel. There he meets Shanshan, a pregnant prostitute with an open heart and a traumatic past. After surviving a strange night together and a run-in with the police, the two hit the open road, on the lam and intent on a mysterious quest. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/04/2014. Price: £9.95 | ||
Hao, Jingfang | Gudu shenchu | The author is a bestselling Chinese science fiction author. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/08/2016. Price: £11.95 | ||
Harari, Yuval Noah | Sapiens: A brief history of humankind | Translation of "Sapiens". |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/02/2017. Price: £21.95 | ||
He, Xuefeng | Last kilometer village | Life stories in modern day China. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/07/2017. Price: £16.95 | ||
Higashino, Keigo | Feng xue zhuiji | Bestselling thriller set in a ski-resort. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/05/2017. Price: £13.95 | ||
Higashino, Keigo | Jie you zahuodian | |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Price: £12.95 | ||
Higashino, Keigo | Mi mi | Bestseller. "The secret" tells the story of Heisuke Sugita, a humble 39-year-old man. He is devastated when his wife and daughter are involved in a bus accident. Naoko, his wife, dies and his 11-year-old daughter Monami is badly injured. Monami makes a miraculous recovery—albeit, with one small twist—her personality and memories are that of her mother Naoko's, rather than her own. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/11/2017. Price: £15.95 | ||
Higashino, Keigo | Someone of those days | A collection of short stories by a bestselling Japanese author. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/03/2017. Price: £13.95 | ||
Hosseini, Khaled | The Kite Runner | BESTSELLER. Translation of "The kite runner". |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/06/2006. Price: £9.95 | ||
Hua, Yu | China in ten words | From one of China's most acclaimed writers : a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the past several decades, told through personal stories and astute analysis that sharply illuminate the country's meteoric economic rise and social transformation. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2014. Price: £22.00 | ||
Jia, Pingwa | Dai Deng | Bestseller. Cherry Town is a remote community located deep in the Qinling Mountains.There, a beautiful, college-educated woman is appointed to serve as director of the new office of social management. English title: "The lantern bearer". |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/10/2015. Price: £15.95 | ||
Jia, Pingwa | Huainian lang | "Missing wolves" is a bestselling novel by a famous contemporary author.Gao Ziming's mission is to protect the wolves but his ideals make him stand against the majority in the village. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/02/2015. Price: £7.95 | ||
Jia, Pingwa | Jihua | Renowned novelist Jia Pingwa’s latest work tells the story of a trafficked woman called Butterfly to show the plight of China’s remote villages.When Butterfly’s father passes away she and her mother leave their village for the city, where they make a living shifting through rubbish... |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/03/2016. Price: £12.95 | ||
Jia, Pingwa | Youxi renjian | Collection of short pieces by a popular contemporary author. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2017. Price: £14.95 | ||
Jia, Pingwa | Zizai duxing | Warm story and funny story about a shy man leading a quiet life. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/07/2016. Price: £12.95 | ||
Jiang, Rong | Lang tu teng (Wolf Totem) | |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Price: £12.95 | ||
Jingming, Guo | L.O.R.D (Legend of Ravaging Dynasties) part 1: Fog and snow | Bestselling fantasy novel. The four nations -- Water, Wind, Earth and Fire jointly build up a fantasy world -- Odin Continent. In this world dominated by mysterious sorcery, the Top 7 sorcerers are known as ""Lords"", who represent the peak of the whole nation's strength. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/08/2016. Price: £11.95 | ||
Kong, Shangren | Tao hua shan | English title: "The peach blossom fan". It is one of the classic works in the Chinese canon. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/11/2016. Price: £10.95 | ||
Lao, She | Beneath the red banner | Chinese modern classic based on the author's own experiences in the late Qing Dynasty. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2017. Price: £9.95 | ||
Lao, She | Camel Xiangzi | Chinese modern classic. Set in the 1920s, the novel's protagonist is an orphan peasant who leaves for Beijing to earn a living. Xiangzi is a young, hardworking, well-built rickshaw puller who dreams of owning his own rickshaw. Just when he has earned enough to buy one, it is confiscated by warlord soldiers. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2017. Price: £9.95 | ||
Lao, She | Four generations under one roof | Family story set in the time of Japanese occupation. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/02/2012. Price: £14.95 | ||
Lao, She | Tea house | Chinese modern classic. "Teahouse" spans fifty years in modern Chinese history from the collapse of the Qing dynasty to the birth of the People's Republic. The play brings together over sixty characters, representing all walks of life. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2017. Price: £9.95 | ||
Lao, She | Teahouse | BESTSELLER. A teahouse in Beijing and the lives of its visitors are used as a metaphore for the whole Chinese society.Modern classic. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2010. Price: £8.95 | ||
Lee, Harper | Go set a watchman | |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/02/2017. Price: £16.95 | ||
Lee, Harper | To kill a mockingbird | |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/02/2017. Price: £16.95 | ||
Li, Yinhe | Women dou shi yuzhou zhong de weichen | |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Price: £13.95 | ||
Liang, Zhenhua | Song of Phoenix | It tells the story of Qu Yuan, a Chinese poet and government official known for his accomplishments during the Warring States Era. In the fictionalized dramatization, Qu Yuan falls in love with a slave girl named Mo Chou Nu. Theirs is a forbidden romance but complicated by palace politics and the affairs of the nation. Motivated by a love for his country, Qu Yuan embarks on a difficult endeavor to save his people. The book was adapted into a successful television series. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/05/2017. Price: £12.95 | ||
Lin, Haiyin | Chengnan Jiushi | A portrayal of the adult world in Peking of the 1930s, as seen through the eyes of a little girl. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/09/2017. Price: £9.95 | ||
Lin, Huiyin | Ni shi renjian de siyuetian | |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/06/2016. Price: £10.95 | ||
Lin, Qingxuan | Looking for inner peace | Bestselling self-help guide based on Buddhist principles. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2015. Price: £12.95 | ||
Lin, Yihan | Fang Siqi de chulian leyuan | Story about questionable love affair. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/02/2017. Price: £19.95 | ||
Liu, Bihua | Ba wang bie ji (Farewell My Concubine) | |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Price: £10.95 | ||
Liu, Cixin | The Three-Body Problem | During the Cultural Revolution in China, Ye Wenjie, an astrophysics alumna from Tsinghua University, witnesses her father being beaten to death by Red Guards from Tsinghua High School, the latter being supported by Ye's mother and younger sister |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/06/2016. Click on entry for price details. | ||
Liu, Cixin | The Three-Body Problem | |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Price: £7.95 | ||
Liu, Cixin & Yukun | Twelve Tomorrows | Twelve visions of the future—by turns hilarious, frightening, and relevant—from new and established voices in science fiction. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/08/2018. Price: £20.95 | ||
Liu, Ruoying | Houlai de women | Romantic love story. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/05/2018. Price: £16.95 | ||
Liu, Zhenyun | Wo bushi Pan Jinlian | The main protagonist, Li Xuelian, is a woman who divorces her husband in order to side-step Chinese law, which states that married couples can only own one property. However, in the process of this, her now ex-husband marries another woman and denies ever agreeing to such a deal with Li. Made into a film called " I am not Madame Bovary". |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/08/2016. Price: £14.95 | ||
Lu, Nei | Chibei | The story start when a villige is struck by famine. A father of a family finds the last carrot and cuts it into four to share with his relatives. But soon after he urges them to save their lives and leave the village for good. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2016. Price: £11.95 | ||
Lu, Nei | Shaonian babilun | Knowing nothing more than the working-class life he is born into, headstrong Lu Xiaolu reluctantly starts down the path he is expected to follow. At age nineteen in 1990s China, he feels pressure to follow suit with those around him and takes a job at the town's saccharin factory. Slowly, he adjusts to the bureaucratic factory routine, making the best of the situation by bonding with coworkers, flirting with girls, and refusing to give in completely to the expectations of those around him. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/07/2014. Price: £11.95 | ||
Makoto, Shinkai | Ni de Ming Zi | Mitsuha, a high school girl living in the fictional town of Itomori in Gifu Prefecture's mountainous Hida region is fed up with her life in the countryside and wishes to be a handsome Tokyo boy in her next life. Later, Taki, a high school boy living in Tokyo, wakes up and realizes that he is Mitsuha, who herself has somehow ended up in Taki's body. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 15/12/2016. Price: £15.95 | ||
McFall, Claire | Ferryman | When teenager Dylan emerges from the wreckage of a train crash onto a bleak Scottish hillside, she meets a strange boy who seems to be waiting for her. But Tristan is no ordinary teenage boy, and their journey across the desolate, wraith-infested wasteland is no ordinary journey. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/06/2015. Price: £13.99 | ||
Mo Yan | Life and death are wearing me out | Upon his death, Nao finds himself in the underworld, where Lord Yama tortures him in an attempt to elicit an admission of guilt. Nao retains that he is innocent, and as punishment, Lord Yama sends him back to earth where he is reborn as a donkey in his village in 1950. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2017. Price: £16.95 | ||
Mo Yan | Big Breasts & Wide Hips | The Shangguan family, whose matriarch bears eight girls and a boy by different fathers, live and die in a harsh landscape shaped by repeated political upheavals-the defeat of old dynasties and foreign invaders, and the persecutions under Mao's Communist regime. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2017. Price: £17.95 | ||
Mo Yan | The garlic ballads | This epic novel of beauty and brutality, set in a landscape at once strange and alluring, paints a portrait of a people whose fierce passions break the rigid confines of their ancient traditions. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2017. Price: £12.95 | ||
Mo Yan | Red Sorghum | Mo Yan’s landmark novel spanning three generations grounded in the sorghum fields in the Shandong Province of Northern China. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2017. Price: £12.95 | ||
Mo Yan | The Republic of Wine | ''The Republic of Wine' is a fantastical postmodernist novel that borrows elements from kung fu novels, detective thrillers, traditional Chinese tales of the supernatural. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2017. Price: £14.99 | ||
Mo Yan | Sandalwood death | This powerful novel by Mo Yanis both a stirring love story and an unsparing critique of political corruption during the final years of the Qing Dynasty, China’s last imperial epoch. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2017. Price: £15.95 | ||
Mo, Yan | Pow! | The novel's protagonist is Luo Xiaotong, a village boy with a passion for story-telling.He describes the difficult circumstances of his childhood in the "Slaughterhouse Village," a fictional town in which the population is obsessed with the consumption of meat and where corruption is rife. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2017. Price: £15.99 | ||
Mu, Xin | Bao bian | Series of intertwined short stories. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/10/2017. Price: £13.95 | ||
Murakami, Haruki | Killing the Commendatore | |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/03/2018. Price: £22.95 | ||
Murakami, Haruki | South of the Border, West of the Sun | |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/02/2014. Price: £6.95 | ||
Nai'an, S. | Outlaws of the marsh: (vol. 1-4) | China's great classic novel Outlaws of the Marsh, written in the fourteenth century, is a fictional account of twelfth-century events during the Song Dynasty. One by one, over a hundred men and women are forced by the harsh feudal officialdom to take to the hills. They band together and defeat every attempt of the government troops to crush them. IN ENGLISH. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 1988. Price: £23.95 | ||
Nei, Lu | Tianshi zhuiluo zai nali | Popular fiction. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/04/2014. Price: £12.95 | ||
Ng, Celeste | Everything I Never Told You | BESTSELLER. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But then her body is found in a lake... |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/07/2015. Price: £10.95 | ||
Qing, Shan | Xia mo shangu | |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 2019. Price: £17.95 | ||
Tang, Feng | Zai yuzhou jian buyi bei feng shuisan | One of the best-known Chinese contemporary writers returns with this Zen-inspired book. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/07/2016. Price: £14.95 | ||
Tang, Qi | San sheng sanshi shi li taohua | Popular fantasy romance. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2017. Price: £13.95 | ||
Tong, Hua | The Starry Night The Starry Sea | BESTSELLER. Shen Luo is an ordinary girl who moves from the busy city life to a small cottage. She meets Wu Julan, a man with a mysterious background. Julan is actually a merman, a mystical creature only spoke of in legends. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/05/2015. Price: £11.95 | ||
Wang, Anyi | Hongdou sheng nanguo | New novel by a leading figure in Chinese contemporary literature. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/06/2017. Price: £12.95 | ||
Wang, Anyi | Niming | |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Price: £12.95 | ||
Wang, Xiaobo | Huangjin shidai | In "The Golden Age" an educated young man is sent to countryside in order to "become a man". |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2016. Price: £15.95 | ||
Wang, Xiaobo | Chemno de daduoshu | Short text on the contemporary topics by one of the most praised Chinese authors of our times. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2016. Price: £14.95 | ||
Wang, Xiaobo | Hong Fu Ye Ben | "Rush at night", based on the romantic story of general Li Jing and a kept servant Hong Fu. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/02/2016. Price: £12.95 | ||
Wang, Xiaobo | Wo de jingshen jiayuan (My mental homeland) | |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 2017. Price: £13.95 | ||
Xiao, Hong | Hulanhe zhuan / Tales of Hulan River | Cinematic in style, the novel documents faithfully the author's hometown and the life of ordinary people in northern China in the 1910s. You will undoubtedly be touched by this sincere, poetic, and highly nostalgic work. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/03/2015. Price: £10.99 | ||
Xiao, Hong | Tales of Hulan River | This semi-autobiographical novel remains popular among readers. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/11/2016. Price: £13.95 | ||
Xiaolu, Lu | Zhuisui ta de lucheng | Lu Xiaolu looks back at her life as a teenager. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/07/2014. Price: £12.95 | ||
Xin, Shixiang | Women zhong jiang gaibian chaoshui de fangxia | How to find solace in art and literature? |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/02/2017. Price: £17.95 | ||
Xin, Yiwu | We (in 2 volumes) | Romance. Qi Shan and Zhou Zan whose birthdays are only one day apart are considered by everyone around to be perfect for each other. Yet, for over twenty years, they maintained their freindship and friendship only... |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2016. Price: £15.95 | ||
Xu, Zechen | Wang cheng ru hai | Yu Songpo becomes a centre of a public attention when he directs a play that seems to be criticising the conditions of living in the country. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2017. Price: £12.95 | ||
Xun, Lu | Wild Grass / Yecao | Yecao is a 1927 collection of twenty-three prose poems by influential Chinese author Lu Xun. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 2016. Price: £8.95 | ||
Yan, Geling | Lu fan yan shi | "The criminal Lu Yanshi" tells a story of a man whose care-free attitude during the Cultural Revolution leads to his imprisonment in a labour camp. When he returns home after twenty years, he becomes painfully aware that he is now a stranger for his family. A successful film called "Coming home" is based on the novel. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Price: £11.95 | ||
Yan, Geling | You Touched Me | The plot spans across more than forty years and is centred around the lives of four protagonists- each of them with a very unique talent. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/04/2017. Price: £13.95 | ||
Yan, Lianke | Feng ya song | Yan Lianke, the author of 'To Serve the People', satirizes the corruption and self-loathing among the intellectuals of China's elite universities with allusions. To climb the ranks, a professor is willing to let his superior sleep with his wife. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/09/2016. Price: £16.95 | ||
Yu, Hua | Novel collection | The stories in "The April 3rd Incident" show Yu Hua masterfully guiding us from one fractured reality to another. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/04/2018. Price: £24.95 | ||
Yu, Hua | To live | An award-winning, internationally acclaimed Chinese bestseller, originally banned in China but recently named one of the last decade s ten most influential books there."To Live" tells the epic story of a man's transformation from a spoilt son of a wealthy man to a peasant. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/08/2012. Price: £6.95 | ||
Yu, Hua | To live | Xu Fugui, son of a local rich man, is a compulsive gambler. After he gambles away the entire family fortune, his father dies with grief and indignation. The Chinese civil war is occurring at the time, and Fugui is forced to join the national army. By the time he finally returns home two years later, even more misfortune have occurred. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2017. Price: £12.95 | ||
Yu, Hua | Wo meiyou ziji de mingzi | Collection of short stories by a famous Chinese writer. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2017. Price: £17.95 | ||
Yu, Hua | Xǔ Sānguān Mài Xiě Jì / Chronicle of a blood merchant | Xu Sanguan sells his blood over the years in an attempt to improve lives of himself and his family. The story is set in the early 1950s until the 1980s, from the early years of the People's Republic of China until after the Cultural Revolution. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2017. Price: £14.95 | ||
Zhou Wei | Tai | |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Price: £20.95 | ||
Zhou, Meisen | Renmin de mingyi / In the name of people | The book's plot revolves around a prosecutor's efforts to unearth corruption in a present-day fictional Chinese city. It was adapted into an extremely popular television series. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2017. Price: £16.95 | ||
Zhu, Guangqian | Yisheng Lushi Yisheng Hua | Collection of articles and essays by a renowned Chinese thinker. |
Chinese: Mandarin: Literature & fiction. Published 01/01/2017. Price: £15.95 |