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A Family Memoir
by Wenguang Huang
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Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden
by Zhuqing Li
Published Jun 2023
Read ReviewsSisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence.
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
by Ai Weiwei
Published Sep 2022
Read ReviewsIn his widely anticipated memoir, "one of the most important artists working in the world today" (Financial Times) tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, the nation's most celebrated poet.
by Linda Rui Feng
Published May 2022
Read ReviewsA lyrical novel set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution that follows a father's quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter's momentous birthday, which Garth Greenwell calls "one of the most beautiful debuts I've read in years."
by Mo Yan
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsIn this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama - in which nearly everyone dies - unfurls.
by Anne Applebaum
Published Aug 2013
Read ReviewsIn the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.
by Sophia Al-Maria
Published Nov 2012
Read ReviewsThe Girl Who Fell to Earth heralds the arrival of an electric new talent and takes us on the most personal of quests: the voyage home.
by Moying Li
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsThis inspiring memoir following the Author from age twelve to twenty-two, illuminating a complex, dark time in Chinas history as it tells the compelling story of one girls difficult but determined coming-of-age during the Cultural Revolution.
by Yu Hua
Published Jan 2010
Read ReviewsA bestseller in China, recently short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and a winner of Frances Prix Courrier International, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok.
by Andrew X. Pham
Published Jun 2009
Read ReviewsA sons searing memoir of his Vietnamese fathers experiences over the course of three wars.
by Sun Shuyun
Published May 2008
Read ReviewsThe Long March is Communist Chinas founding myth, the heroic tale that every Chinese child learns in school. Seventy years after the historical march took place, Sun Shuyun set out to retrace the Marchers steps and unexpectedly discovered the true history behind the legend.
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