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  • Hong Kong Noir

    by Xu Xi, Marshall Moore ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    "Showcases the extremes of one of the world's capitals. From ghost stories, to historical thrills, to underworld brutality . . . endlessly fascinating."— CrimeReadsAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. In ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Walls

    a novel

    by Xi Xu ...
    "The Master said, 'Men are close to one another by nature. They diverge as a result of repeated practice." This epigraph by Confucius is at the heart of CHINESE WALLS, Xu Xi's controversial literary debut. This novel-in-stories was one of the first to openly address incest in an Asian family. Told by the youngest child and only daughter, Ai-Lin, the narrative begins in her childhood and wends ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Daughters of Hui

    Novellas & Stories (1996)

    by Xi Xu ...
    "Your name or your person. Which is dearer?" In answer to Lao Tzu's ancient riddle, DAUGHTERS OF HUI offers a novella and three stories of four Asian women. All are surnamed Hui, and share at least a casual connection with Boston and New England. And all share that particular Hong Kong world view, one that roots into a past not well understood while reaching out to a future that "speaks too many ... Read more

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  • Horizon Hong Kong

    Selected Stories

    by Xu Xi ...
    "A collection of heartbreaks and awakenings set to lightning." -Junot Díaz, author, This Is How You Lose HerA siren call to Hong Kong's yesterday, today, and tomorrow, envisioned by one of the city's most prescient and unapologetic writers.One of Hong Kong's leading English writers, Xu Xi investigates and invigorates the transnational, transcultural, and translingual dimensions of her beloved city ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dear Hong Kong

    An Elegy For A City: Penguin Specials

    by Xu Xi ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    Xu Xi’s body of work witnesses her turbulent love affair with her home-city of Hong Kong. In this probing memoir, she unravels her recently finalised decision to leave the city for good. She critiques a Hong Kong that has, in her eyes, lost its way. And yet, it is only out of the city’s enduring presence in her life, both in the form of memory and periodic homecomings, that she has carved out a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Art and Craft of Asian Stories

    A Writer's Guide and Anthology

    by Professor Robin Hemley, Xu Xi ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies
    An all-in-one craft guide and anthology, this is the first creative writing book to find inspiration and guidance in the diverse literary traditions of Asia. Including exemplary stories by leading writers from Japan, China, India, Singapore and beyond as well as those from Asian diasporas in Europe and America, The Art and Craft of Asian Stories offers an exciting take on the traditional how-to ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • This Fish Is Fowl

    Essays of Being

    by Xu Xi ...
    Series series American Lives
    In This Fish Is Fowl Xu Xi offers the transnational and feminist perspective of a contemporary “glocalized” American life. Xu’s quirky, darkly comic, and obsessively personal essays emerge from her diverse professional career as a writer, business executive, entrepreneur, and educator. From her origins in Hong Kong as an Indonesian of Chinese descent to her U.S. citizenship and multiple countries ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Interruptions

    with photographs by David Clarke and essays by Xu Xi

    by David Clarke, Xu Xi ...
    Interruptions is rooted in the tradition of contemporary ekphrastic writing, where an author creates a literary response in order to confront or narrate a work of visual art. Here, the photographer and writer engage in a dialogue between David Clarke’s selections from his photographic archives and Xu Xi’s essays written in response to each photo, which, in turn, triggers the next photographic ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Overleaf Hong Kong

    Stories and Essays of the Chinese, Overseas

    by Xu Xi ...
    For the millions of wah kiu or "overseasChinese," life in the world beyond China's borders is fraught with thequestion of identity. In these stories and essays, written over the pastthirty years, Xu Xi explores the joys, fears, idealism,disappointments, dreams and lives of the wah kiu. In Overleaf Hong Kong,she takes us around the globe, from Southeast Asia to Europe to NorthAmerica to the Pacific ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • History's Fiction

    Stories from the City of Hong Kong

    by Xu Xi ...
    From the turbulent sixties through the nineties, here is a "history" of Hong Kong, told through fiction by one of the city's leading writers. These stories represent the evolution of a voice, as she strives to create art out of her birthplace, "the city that remains my perpetual concern." History intrudes into private lives and more in the thirteen tales, collected here for the first time. The ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Growing Up Asian in Australia

    Edited by Alice Pung ...
    Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is here in all its steaming glory - but listen more closely to the dinner-table chatter and you ... Read more

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  • Singapore Noir

    by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    The dark side of The Lion City is explored in a thrilling anthology that gives "plenty of new and unfamiliar voices a chance to shine" ( San Francisco Book Review).The island city-state of Singapore harbors unique customs and traditions largely unknown to the West. A booming economy and embrace of conformity overshadow its gambling dens, red-light districts, and a collective passion for ghostly ... Read more

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