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“xiaokang su”

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  • A Memoir of Misfortune

    by Xiaokang Su ...
    Su Xiaokang had faced calamity before: in 1989, after the Tiananmen Square massacre, he became the object of a government manhunt and was forced to flee China, leaving behind his wife and young son. Eventually his family was allowed to join him in exile in the United States, and he believed the worst was behind him. Then a terrible automobile accident left his wife, Fu Li, unable to move or speak ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The Ghost Marriage

    A compact return to the thrilling crime series (A China Thriller Novella)

    by Peter May ...
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  • Disappearing Moon Cafe

    by SKY Lee ...
    Disappearing Moon Cafe was a stunning debut novel that has become a Canadian literary classic. An unflinchingly honest portrait of a Chinese Canadian family that pulses with life and moral tensions, this family saga takes the reader from the wilderness in nineteenth-century British Columbia to late twentieth-century Hong Kong, to Vancouver’s Chinatown.Intricate and lyrical, suspenseful and ... Read more

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  • Death of a Red Heroine

    by Qiu Xiaolong ...
    Series Book 1 - An Inspector Chen Investigation
    A TIME “100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time”Meet Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police in this “refreshingly brave exploration into political China, woven around a tense thriller” (Huffington Post).“A matchless pearl.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh AirA young “national model worker,” renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal ... Read more

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  • Brothers

    A Novel

    by Yu Hua ...
    An award-winning, wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok.Here is China as we've never seen it before, in a sweeping, Rabelaisian panorama of forty years of rough-and-rumble Chinese history, from the madness of the Cultural Revolution to the equally rabid madness of extreme materialism. Yu Hua, award-winning author of To Live, gives us a surreal tale of two comically ... Read more

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  • A Loyal Character Dancer

    by Qiu Xiaolong ...
    Series Book 2 - An Inspector Chen Investigation
    The second book in the Inspector Chen investigationsInspector Chen’s mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort US Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important criminal trial, to the United States. Inspector Rohn is already en route when Chen learns that Wen has unaccountably vanished from her village in Fujian. Or is this just ... Read more

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  • The Mao Case

    by Qiu Xiaolong ...
    Series Book 6 - Inspector Chen Cao
    Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is the head of the Special Case group and is often put in charge of those cases that are considered politically "sensitive" since. As a rising party cadre, he's regarded by many as reliable. But Inspector Chen, though a poet by inclination and avocation, takes his job as a policeman very seriously, despite the pressures put upon him from ... Read more

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  • When Red Is Black

    by Qiu Xiaolong ...
    Series Book 3 - An Inspector Chen Investigation
    When the murder of a woman is reported to the Shanghai police while Inspector Chen is on vacation, Sergeant Yu is forced to take charge of the investigation. The victim, Yin Lige, a novelist known for her banned book, has been found dead in her tiny, humble room off the stairwell of a converted multi-family house. It seems that only a neighbor could have committed the crime, for the building is ... Read more

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  • Mao's Last Dancer

    by Li Cunxin ...
    The young reader edition of the international bestseller; now a major motion picture.At the age of eleven, Li Cunxin was one of the privileged few selected to serve in Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution by studying at the Beijing Dance Academy. Having known bitter poverty in his rural China home, ballet would be his family's best chance for a better future. From one hardship to another, Cunxin ... Read more

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  • The Liar's Dice

    A Lotus Palace Mystery

    by Jeannie Lin ...
    Series series The Lotus Palace Mysteries
    Lady Bai's first taste of freedom brings her face-to-face with murder. A dangerous and enigmatic stranger becomes her ally while the killer may be someone closer than she ever imagined. Part of the bestselling Lotus Palace seriesLady Bai, called Wei-wei by her aristocratic family, has always been the perfectly obedient daughter--but only on the outside. When she dares to pay a forbidden visit to a ... Read more

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  • The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon

    A Novel of Contemporary China

    by Liu Zhenyun ...
    Translated by Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Howard Goldblatt ...
    The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon, by prize-winning Chinese novelist Liu Zhenyun is a novel of Beijing that paints a microcosm of contemporary China, dealing with classes at the two extremes: the super rich and the migrant workers who make them rich through deceit and corruption.The protagonist, Liu Yuejin, is a work site cook and small-time thief whose bag is stolen. In searching ... Read more

    $16.99 USD