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An epic Chinese tale, "Wolf Totem" depicts the dying culture of the Mongols--the ancestors of the Mongol hordes who at one time terrorized the world--and the parallel extinction of the animal they believe to be sacred: the fierce and otherworldly ...

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a wildly visionary and creative novel, constantly mocking and rearranging itself and jolting the reader with its own internal commentary. This is politics as pathology. From the start, the reader must be willing to share with Mo Yan the novel's ce...

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An abridged version of the famous novel by Qian Zhongshu, this book is designed for learners of Chinese as a second language. With the hero Fang Hongjian's experience as the subject, the novel depicts the wretched and humdrum life o...

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This abridged version of the well known Chinese trilogy "The Torrents: Family, Spring, Autumn" is the masterpiece of Ba Jin, one of the great writers of modern Chinese literature. The trilogy recounts the decline of a large feudal family following...

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An engaging, informative cultural commentator who bridges East and West, Lang Lang has written more than an autobiography: his book opens a door to China, where Lang Lang is a cultural icon, at a time when the world's attention will be on Beijing....

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A spirited memoir by a former Chinese factory worker who grew up in Nanjing, participated in the Tiananmen Square protest, and ended up an international journalist. Lijia Zhang worked as a teenager in a factory producing missiles designed to reach...

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When Hua Wu arrives in New York City, her life seems destined to resemble that of countless immigrants before her. She spends her hectic days in a restaurant in Chinatown, and her lonesome nights in a noisy, crowded tenement, yearning for those sh...

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Enamored by Hollywood in prerevolutionary China, Wang Qiyao serendipitously poses for a photograph that is chosen for the cover of Shanghai Life magazine. Dubbed A Proper Young Lady of Shanghai, she wins second runner-up in a 1946 beauty pageant a...

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First 20 lucky buyers will receive autographed copies. Maarten Troost has charmed legions of readers with his laugh-out-loud tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific. When the travel bug hit again, he decided to go big-time, taki...

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This is an inspiring, romantic, fateful memoir of the first and still most famous Chinese-born singer ever to make it on the world stage.  A wild child living on his own during the Cultural Revolution, forced to labor in a factory for seven y...

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This volume of six short stories about contemporary China illustrates the various aspects of Chinese society and gives an insight into what present day Chinese people think about. The topics mostly focus on ordinary people's daily lives, thei...

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This collection of 21 short stories written in the 1990's is an fictional and non-fictional overview of life in China. Topics range from city and country life to travel, food and the joys and despair of women in Chinese society. This compelling vo...

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