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3 Tian Tang Street
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3 Tian Tang Street
SKU: THTITA

3 Tian Tang Street is about Lang Lang, a Shanghai teenager. Frustrated and confused by his misunderstood existence, his parents, impending divorce, his girlfriend, the school bully, and the class scapegoat whom he endeavors to protect, Lang Lang receives a mysterious letter from 3 Tian Tang....

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A Case of Two Cities
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A Case of Two Cities: An Inspector Chen Novel
SKU: CATWCI

Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is summoned by an official of the party to take the lead in a corruption investigation - one where the principle figure and his family have long since fled to the United States and beyond the reach of the Chinese government. But he left behind the....

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Buddha Baby
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Buddha Baby
SKU: BUBABY

Want to learn a thing or two about a young Chinese-American woman with a penchant for Hello Kitty toys, who could be found squeezing into jeans at Old Navy while being asked for detailed explanations of Yo-Yo Ma's success?

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China Dolls
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China Dolls
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Set in New York City, China Dolls is the irresistible story of three best friends from childhood—each an unforgettable Asian woman—tackling their late twenties over drinks, laughs, and dim sum: M.J., a sportswriter; Alex, an attorney and Lin, a stockbroker.

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Confucius from the Heart
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Confucius from the Heart: Ancient Wisdom for Today's World
SKU: COHEAR

Confucius from the Heart began as a series of television lectures which took China by storm, propelling Yu Dan to the top of the bestseller lists and to national and international fame. Yu Dan blows away the cobwebs of thousands of years of academic study on Confucius's thought and gives him....

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Contemporary Chinese Women Writers, Vol. 2
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Contemporary Chinese Women Writers, Vol. 2
SKU: COCHW2

A fine collection of recent short stories by young authors. The varied styles and viewpoints reveal how much Chinese literature has evolved over the last 10 years. Volume two of the Selected Women Writers Series is highly recommended.

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Contemporary Chinese Women Writers, Vol. 3
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Contemporary Chinese Women Writers, Vol. 3
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Third in the Selected Women Writers Series, this volume highlights popular Chinese women writers including Cheng Naishan. Focusing on daily life at the height of China's reform movement, these stories reflect Chinese women's feelings about marriage, family, work and politics.

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Contemporary Chinese Women Writers, Vol. 5
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Contemporary Chinese Women Writers, Vol. 5: Three Novellas by Fang Fang
SKU: COCHW5

One of the most popular female writers in present day China, Fang Fang is best known for her stories about urban life, populated with characters ranging from intellectuals to laborers. One Glittering Moment is the moving story of frustrated first love. Landscape depicts the relationships between....

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Contemporary Chinese Women Writers, Vol. 7
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Contemporary Chinese Women Writers, Vol. 7
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This is the latest edition in the highly popular series, featuring eight of China's most exciting women writers. Providing a captivating view of the varied and vibrant genres in contemporary Chinese literary development during the past decade, the stories in this collection are uniquely....

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Deliverance: Armed Escort and Other Stories
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Deliverance: Armed Escort and Other Stories
SKU: DEARES

Deliverance - Armed Escort and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Nie Xinsen, a celebrated contemporary Chinese writer. These seven remarkable stories are selected from hundreds written by Nie - who asserts his stories are the produc

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February Flowers
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February Flowers
SKU: FEFLOW

Insightful, sophisticated, and rich with complex characters, February Flowers captures a modern China torn between tradition and modernity, dogma and freedom. The stories of two young women's journeys to self-discovery and reconciliation with their pasts is a meditation on friendship, family,....

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Green River Daydreams
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Green River Daydreams
SKU: GRRIDA

Liu Heng is one of contemporary China's most acclaimed and masterful writers, and with Green River Daydreams he has written "of the struggle between Western ideas and the old political system, all of it set against a suppley portrayed mountain and river landscape" (NPR's All Things Considered).....

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Haystacks
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Haystacks
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From the Contemporary Chinese Women Writers Series, this collection of eleven stories marks the writing career of Tie Ning, who has been the recipient of national literary przes for her fiction.

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I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China
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I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China
SKU: ILODOL

An immediate sensation upon publication in China, I Love Dollars is a hilarious send-up of China's love affair with capitalism by one of its most gifted new writers. In the title story, a young man, acutely aware of his filial duty, sets out to secure a prostitute for his father, only to haggle....

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The Kitchen God's Wife
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The Kitchen God's Wife
SKU: KIGOWI

"Gripping, sweeping…a beautiful literary tapestry, rich and dense with color, texture, pattern….This is incantatory prose, a breathless roller coaster ride through a brilliant desperate world made magic by superstition and old wives' tales and the pure drama of hard times....Amy Tan is one of....

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The Last Empress
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The Last Empress
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This sequel to "Empress Orchid" is a powerful portrait of one of the most important figures in Chinese history: Tsu Hsi. Maligned by the Western press of the time as the "Dragon Lady", a manipulative, blood-thristy Empress who held on to power at all costs, Min gives us instead a compelling,....

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Long Stay in A Distant Land
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Long Stay in A Distant Land
SKU: LOSTDI

The Lums are cursed. Their early deaths come randomly, strangely, and often, be it by tainted cheeseburger or speeding ice cream truck. The most recent victim is Louis Lum's mother. Now Louis must move back home with his gangsta rap--obsessed father, Sonny, to prevent him from enacting the....

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Love Must Not Be Forgotten
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Love Must Not Be Forgotten
SKU: LOMUNO

    "The horrors of the Chinese cultural revolution linger in the memories and lives of Zhang Jie's characters in this engrossing collection of six short stories and a novella. Though these are stories of often painful lives, they also remind us of the powers of love, commitment, and....


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The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam
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The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam
SKU: MALILO

A full-color graphic memoir inspired by the award-winning documentary on the life and mystery of China's greatest magician.

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Midnight at the Dragon Cafe
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Midnight at the Dragon Cafe
SKU: MIDRCA

Set in the 1960s, Judy Fong Bates’s much-talked-about debut novel is the story of a young girl, the daughter of a small Ontario town’s solitary Chinese family, whose life is changed over the course of one summer when she learns the burden of secrets. Through Su-Jen’s eyes, the hard life behind....

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