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This is a splendid saga of Guanzhong Plain as well as a colorful painting scroll of Chinese village. Bai Jiaxuan, the protagonist marries six wives who all died. This weird destiny indicates ill omen.…

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Lu Xun (simplified Chinese: 鲁迅; traditional Chinese: 魯迅; pinyin: Lǔ Xùn) or Lu Hsün (Wade-Giles), was the pen name of Zhou Shuren(September 25, 1881 - October 19, 1936) is one of the major Chinese wri…

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Love in a Fallen City

Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fictio…

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我与地坛

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长安的荔枝

天宝十四年，长安城的小吏李善德突然接到一个任务：要在贵妃诞日之前，从岭南运来新鲜荔枝。荔枝“一日色变，二日香变，三日味变”，而岭南距长安五千余里，山水迢迢，这是个不可能完成的任务，可为了家人，李善德决心放手一搏。在胡商等人的帮助下，李善德靠着精密计算和反复试验，确定了保存方法和转运路线，将时长控制在十一天，运鲜荔枝之事终得落实。万事俱备，李善德却没料到，横亘在他面前的一座大山，是官场。

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Golden Age

Like Gary Shteyngart or Michel Houellebecq, Wang Xiaobo is a Chinese literary icon whose satire forces us to reconsider the ironies of history.

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A towering figure in the literary history of twentieth-century China, Lu Xun has exerted immense and continuous influence through his short stories, which remain today as powerful as they were first w…

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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze

In the heart of China's Sichuan province lies the small city of Fuling. Surrounded by the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, Fuling has long been a place of continuity, far from the bustling …

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The greatest Chinese novel of the twentieth century, Fortress Besieged is a classic of world literature, a masterpiece of parodic fiction that plays with Western literary traditions, philosophy, and m…

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From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in China. In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessle…

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From the author of Brothers and China in Ten Words this celebrated contemporary classic of Chinese literature was also adapted for film by Zhang Yimou. This searing novel, originally banned in China b…

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