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  • Short Stories in Chinese

    New Penguin Parallel Text

    Edición de John Balcom ...
    Series series Penguin Parallel Text
    A dual-language edition of Chinese stories—many appearing in English for the first timeThis new volume of eight short stories offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature from the world’s most spoken language, without having to constantly to refer back to a dictionary.The stories—many of which appear here in English for the first time—are by well ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Great Flowing River

    A Memoir of China, from Manchuria to Taiwan

    de Chi Pang-yuan ...
    Traducido por John Balcom ...
    Heralded as a literary masterpiece and a best-seller in the Chinese-speaking world, The Great Flowing River is a personal account of the history of modern China and Taiwan unlike any other. In this eloquent autobiography, the noted scholar, writer, and teacher Chi Pang-yuan recounts her youth in mainland China and adulthood in Taiwan. Chi’s remarkable life, told in rich and striking detail, ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Memories of Mount Qilai

    The Education of a Young Poet

    Traducido por John Balcom ...
    de Yang Mu ...
    Series series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    Hualien, on the Pacific coast of eastern Taiwan, and its mountains, especially Mount Qilai, were deeply inspirational for the young poet Yang Mu. A place of immense natural beauty and cultural heterogeneity, the city was also a site of extensive social, political, and cultural change in the twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and the American bombings of World War II to the Chinese ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The City Trilogy

    Five Jade Disks, Defenders of the Dragon City, and Tale of a Feather

    Traducido por John Balcom ...
    de Hsi-kuo Chang ...
    Series series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    Taiwan's most innovative science fiction writer presents three tales of intrigue, espionage, betrayal, political strife, time travel, and Chinese history and mysticism. After thousands of years of civil unrest and countless wars, the weary Huhui people of Sunlon City have once again succumbed to a ruthless and overpowering enemy. In Five Jade Disks, the first book in the trilogy, the imperialistic ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Trees Without Wind

    A Novel

    de Rui Li ...
    Traducido por John Balcom ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Unfolding in the tense years of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Trees Without Wind takes place in a remote Shanxi village in which a rare affliction has left the residents physically stunted. Director Liu, an older revolutionary and local commune head, becomes embroiled in a power struggle with Zhang Weiguo, a young ideologue who believes he is the model of a true revolutionary. Complicating ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • The Great Flowing River

    A Memoir of China, from Manchuria to Taiwan

    de Chi Pang-yuan ...
    Traducido por John Balcom ...
    Heralded as a literary masterpiece and a best-seller in the Chinese-speaking world, The Great Flowing River is a personal account of the history of modern China and Taiwan unlike any other. In this eloquent autobiography, the noted scholar, writer, and teacher Chi Pang-yuan recounts her youth in mainland China and adulthood in Taiwan. Chi’s remarkable life, told in rich and striking detail, ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Zero and Other Fictions

    Traducido por John Balcom ...
    de Fan Huang ...
    Series series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    Huang Fan burst onto Taiwan's literary scene in the 1980s, publishing pointed urban portraits and political satires that captured the reading public's attention. After decades of innovative work, he is now one of Asia's most celebrated authors, crucial to understanding the development of Taiwanese literature over the past fifty years.The first collection of Huang Fan's work to appear in English, ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Running Mother and Other Stories

    de Songfen Guo ...
    Traducido por John Balcom ...
    Series series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    Guo Songfen's short stories are masterful psychological portraits that play with the echoes of history and the nature of identity. One of the few modernists to truly capture the fallout from such events as the February 28th Incident and the White Terror, Guo Songfen illuminates the quiet core of his characters through a spare and immediate style that is at once a symptom and an allegory of the ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Wintry Night

    de Qiao Li ...
    Traducido por Taotao Liu, John Balcom ...
    Series series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    An epic spanning more than half a century of Taiwan's history, this breathtaking historical novel traces the fortunes of the Pengs, a family of Hakka Chinese settlers, across three generations from the 1890s, just before Taiwan was ceded to Japan as a result of the Sino-Japanese war, through World War II. Li Qiao brilliantly re-creates the dramatic world of these pioneers—and the colonization of ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • Wild Swans

    Three Daughters of China

    de Jung Chang ...
    The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The Fat Years

    A Novel

    de Chan Koonchung ...
    Banned in China, this controversial and politically charged novel tells the story of the search for an entire month erased from official Chinese history.Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one could care less—except for a small circle of friends, who will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the sinister ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • A Leaf In The Bitter Wind

    A Memoir

    de Ting-Xing Ye ...
    One of the best ways to understand history is through eye-witness accounts. Ting-Xing Ye’s riveting first book, A Leaf in the Bitter Wind, is a memoir of growing up in Maoist China. It was an astonishing coming of age through the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1974).In the wave of revolutionary fervour, peasants neglected their crops, exacerbating the widespread hunger. While ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD