"After years of chasing the American dream, the Zhen family has moved back to China. Settling into a luxurious serviced apartment in Shanghai, Wei, Lina, and their daughter, Karen, join an elite community of Chinese-born, Western-educated professionals who have returned to a radically transformed city. One morning, in the eighth tower of Lanson Suites, Lina discovers that a treasured ivory bracelet has gone missing. This incident sets off a wave...

The novel narrates the dramatic changes in the current situation in the past two decades after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the defeat of the Nationalist government, the establishment of Communist China, the ups and downs and the fate of the characters of the Hang family, a family of tea industry in the south of the Yangtze River. Wang Xufeng wrote about the tea people's tea affairs. In the earth-shaking era, he wrote about the choices, opening,...

"In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was ten years old."Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations--those who lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution and their children, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square. At the center of this epic story are two young women,...

This is an autobiographical novel, which is a unique work that the author Fan Yusu said he intends to publish only once in his life. In the novel, based on his own experience, Fan Yusu created the heroine Fan Juren, telling the story of Fan Juren's hardships growing up in his hometown and wandering in Beijing. Influenced by the ghost culture of Chu when he was young, Fan Juren fantasized about an old mulberry tree in his courtyard, and embarked on...

"Little Maomao's father works in faraway places and comes home just once a year, for Chinese New Year. At first Maomao barely recognizes him, but before long the family is happily making sticky rice balls, listening to firecrackers, and watching the dragon dance in the streets below. Papa gets a haircut, makes repairs to the house, and hides a lucky coin for Maomao to find. Which she does! But all too soon it is time for Papa to go away again. This...

"In her first collection of stories since the acclaimed Who's Irish?, the beloved author of The Resisters refracts the fifty years since the opening of China through the lives of ordinary people. Beginning with a cheery, kindly letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to "poor Mr. Nixon" in hell, Gish Jen embarks on an eleven-story journey through U.S.-Chinese relations, capturing not only the excitement of a world on the brink of tectonic change,...

Aesthetician Jiang Xun takes a leisurely stroll through "Dreams of the Red Chamber", THE classic, one event at a time. He confesses if he was allowed one book on a deserted island, this would be it. The novel, he says, is filled with anecdotes of everyday living, each is gorgeous, dreamy and exquisite.