After years of living in the U. S., a housewife who grew up in Taiwan immigrated to Japan. This book contains the writings and illustrations that reflect her observation and sometimes painful adjustment to the Japanese culture, and learning about a new way of life with wide-eye curiosity.

"Fu Zao" is translated into English by Professor Howard Goldblatt titled "Turbulence" and released in 1991. It is a winner of the 1991 Pegasus Prize. It is a story about a fictional town Shang Zhou going through social reform. Shang Zhou's major river Zhou silently watched the town shift into market economy and with it, the changing values. The shift is told through the love story between Jin Gou, a peasant and Xiao Shui, that was mercilessly disapproved....

A novel by Guo Songfeng, a prominent writer and political activist. This novel was the last written by Guo before his untimely death in 2005. Guo entrusted Li Yu with his manuscript, which Li completed editing in 2012. The novel is about two men's earnest friendship led to some hard and woeful decisions that altered the lives of both families and strained the family relationship.

In this collection of articles, essayist and novelist Jian Zhen sounds an alarm for the aging and the people living with aging relatives, of the everyday issues facing them. Taking careful steps to prepare for these issues everyone - hopefully everyone - will face eventually, is a must life strategy.

A story of the historical event that took place at a New Year's banquet hosted by the most renowned Chinese artist of the twentieth century Zhang Daqian. His guest was the most intriguing warlord Zhang Xueliang whose singular coup arguably changed the course of modern China. Artist Zhang's invitation to Warlord Zhang, under house arrest at the time, alerted the government.

This literary book includes 10 short stories written by Zhou Feng Ling (1955), a Taiwanese essayist, novelist and professor of Chinese literature. These stories have delicate depictions of aboriginal tribes, and forest and mountainous regions in Taiwan. Zhou was a winner of 2010 Taiwan Literature Award by the National Museum of Taiwan Literature.

This literary anthology includes 128 poems written by Chinese poet Yu Xiu Hua (1976). A medical malpractice caused Yu cerebral palsy immediately after she was born. Still a farmer living in countryside of Hubei, she writes more than 2,000 poems about love, family, and life since 2009. Her poems have well-received, and a critic has named Yu the “Emily Dickinson of China”.

This novel about five cypress that are the spiritual center of a Tibetan village, is told by Wang Zezhou, a hard working carpenter. The trees and villagers shared the land. The trees grew without restraint. Then businesses expanded into the village. They depleted natural resources, and destroyed the forest. It's a story of human greed, about disrespect of culture and faith. Alai (1959–), is an award winning Chinese poet and novelist of Rgyalrong...

This collection of short stories includes 5 literal works written by Jiang Xiao Yun. Su Kui Hong is a story about an illiterate girl Xiu Zhi, whose parents sold her to a hot spring hotel. Working as a bathing maid, she meets Lau Zou, a union secretary of the Chinese Nationalist Party. The relation between two unblessed people can hardly survive under political and family taboo.