• Teahouse (Bilingual Series in Modern Chinese Literature)

    Set in an old teahouse in Beijing, the play is typical of Lao She's art that seeks to provide a panoramic view of Chinese history and culture in their transformation from tradition to modernity. Teahouse spans fifty years in modern Chinese history from the collapse of the Qing dynasty and the Republican Revolution to the birth of the People's Republic. The play brings together over sixty characters, representing all walks of life in change. It is noted for its vivid portrayal of characters and lively use of Beijing dialect, but its main thrust lies in Lao She's vision of history, which is prop... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 9629961253
    • ASIN: 9629961253
    • ISBN: 9629961253
    • Manufacturer: The Chinese University Press

  • The Heart of Chinese Poetry: Fifty-Seven of the Best Traditional Chinese Poems in a Dual-Language Edition

    Greg Whincup offers a varied and unique approach to Chinese translation in The Heart of Chinese Poetry. Special features of this edition include direct word-for-word translations showing the range of meaning in each Chinese character, the Chinese pronunciations, as well as biographical and historical commentary following each poem.

    • ASIN: 038523967X
    • ASIN: 038523967X
    • ISBN: 038523967X
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Penguin Classics)

    Exquisite and amusing miniatures regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fictionWith their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection from The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a magical pear tree, a scholar recounts his previous incarnations, a woman out-foxes the fox-spirit that possesses her, a child bride gives birth to a thimble-sized baby, a ghostly city appears out of nowhere and a heartless daughter-in-law is turned into a pig. In his tales of humans coupli... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0140447407
    • ASIN: 0140447407
    • ISBN: 0140447407
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • Everything I Never Told You

    New York Times Bestseller · A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice · Winner of the Alex Award· Winner of the APALA Award for Fiction · NEA Big Read Selection NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: NPR · San Francisco Chronicle · Entertainment Weekly · The Huffington Post · Buzzfeed · Amazon · Grantland · Booklist · St. Louis Post Dispatch · Shelf Awareness · Book Riot · School Library Journal · Bustle · Time Out New York · Mashable · Cleveland Plain Dealer“Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0143127551
    • UPC: 884863244159
    • ASIN: 0143127551
    • ISBN: 0143127551
    • Brand: Celeste Ng
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • Disgrace: A Novel

    From the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. "Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we've finished reading it." —The New YorkerAt fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. When an affair with a student leaves him jobless, shunned by friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wife, he retreats to his daughter Lucy's smallholding. Dav... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0140296409
    • ASIN: 0140296409
    • ISBN: 0140296409
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • A Dictionary of Maqiao

    From the daring imagination of one of China’s greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originality–the story of a young man “displaced” to a small village in rural China during the 1960s. Told in the format of a dictionary, with a series of vignettes disguised as entries, A Dictionary of Maqiao is a novel of bold invention–and a fascinating, comic, deeply moving journey through the dark heart of the Cultural Revolution.Entries trace the wisdom and absurdities of Maqiao: the petty squabbles, family grudges, poverty, infidelities, fantasies, lunatics, bullies, supe... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0385339356
    • ASIN: 0385339356
    • ISBN: 0385339356
    • Brand: Shaogong, Han/ Lovell, Julia (TRN)
    • Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

  • The Story of the Western Wing

    China's most important love comedy, Wang Shifu's Xixiangji, or The Story of the Western Wing, is a rollicking play that chronicles the adventures of the star-crossed lovers Oriole and Student Zhang. Since its appearance in the thirteenth century, it has enjoyed unparalleled popularity. The play has given rise to innumerable sequels, parodies, and rewritings; it has influenced countless later plays, short stories, and novels and has played a crucial role in the development of drama criticism. This translation of the full and complete text of the earliest extant version is available in paperback... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0520201841
    • ASIN: 0520201841
    • ISBN: 0520201841
    • Manufacturer: University of California Press

  • Hawaii

    Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener brings Hawaii’s epic history vividly to life in a classic saga that has captivated readers since its initial publication in 1959. As the volcanic Hawaiian Islands sprout from the ocean floor, the land remains untouched for centuries—until, little more than a thousand years ago, Polynesian seafarers make the perilous journey across the Pacific, flourishing in this tropical paradise according to their ancient traditions. Then, in the early nineteenth century, American missionaries arrive, bringing with them a new creed and a new way of life. ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0375760377
    • ASIN: 0375760377
    • ISBN: 0375760377
    • Brand: Dial Press
    • Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

  • Drifting House

    Set in Korea and the United States from the postwar era to contemporary times, Krys Lee's stunning fiction debut illuminates a people struggling to reconcile the turmoil of their collective past with the rewards and challenges of their present. Amid the famine in North Korea, the financial crisis of South Korea, and the cramped apartments and Koreatown strip malls of the United States, Krys Lee's vivid and luminous tales speak to the political and financial hardships of life in Korea and the uniquely unmoored immigrant experience.            In the tradition of Chang-rae Lee's Nativ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0143122932
    • ASIN: 0143122932
    • ISBN: 9780143122937
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

    Mohammed Hanif delivers a shockingly funny new novel set in steaming Karachi, about second chances, thwarted ambitions and love found in the most unlikely places.The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments need a miracle. Alice Bhatti may be just what they’re looking for. She’s the daughter of a part-time healer in the French Colony, Karachi’s infamous Christian slum, and it seems she has, unhappily, inherited his part-time gift. With a bit of begrudging but inspired improvisation, Alice begins to bring succor to the hospital’s overflowing patients. But all is not miracu... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0307948943
    • ASIN: 0307948943
    • ISBN: 0307948943
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Sayonara, Gangsters

    If you've ever despaired of expressing yourself, you'll read Sayonara, Gangsters and understand. Set in a facetious near-future that is both mind-bendingly bizarre and achingly familiar. Sayonara, Gangsters is an inventive novel about language, expression and the creative process that unfolds through hilarious sketches. The peaceful if bizarre life of a poetry teacher is forever transformed by a group of terrorists called "the gangsters" in what is, incredibly, a semi-autobiographical novel. On this literary gonzo trip in which a man of letters finds out, too late, that flirting with extremist... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1932234055
    • ASIN: 1932234055
    • ISBN: 1932234055
    • Brand: Brand: Vertical
    • Manufacturer: Vertical

  • Ursula, Under

    In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a dangerous rescue effort draws the ears and eyes of the entire country. A two-and-a-half-year-old girl has fallen down a mine shaft—"the only sound is an astonished tiny intake of breath from Ursula as she goes down, like a penny into the slot of a bank, disappeared, gone." It is as if all hope for life on the planet is bound up in the rescue of this little girl, the first and only child of a young woman of Finnish extraction and her Chinese-American husband. One TV viewer following the action notes that the Wong family lives in a decrepit mobile home and wond... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0143035452
    • ASIN: 0143035452
    • ISBN: 9780143035459
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another

    A fascinating look at the other side of the Opium WarsIn this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839–1842 and 1856–1860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time through the eyes of the Chinese as well as the Imperial West. Opium entered China during the Middle Ages when Arab traders brought it into China for medicinal purposes. As it took hold as a recreational drug, opium wrought havoc on Chinese society. By the early nineteenth century, 90 percent of the Emperor's court and the majority of the army were opium addicts.Britain was also a nation addicted―to ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1402201494
    • UPC: 760789206368
    • ASIN: 1402201494
    • ISBN: 1402201494
    • Brand: Brand: Sourcebooks
    • Manufacturer: Sourcebooks

  • The Sound of Waves

    Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers.

    • ASIN: 0679752684
    • ASIN: 0679752684
    • ISBN: 0679752684
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • After Dark (Vintage International)

    In After Dark—a gripping novel of late night encounters—Murakami’s trademark humor and psychological insight are distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery. Nineteen-year-old Mari is waiting out the night in an anonymous Denny’s when she meets a young man who insists he knows her older sister, thus setting her on an odyssey through the sleeping city. In the space of a single night, the lives of a diverse cast of Tokyo residents—models, prostitutes, mobsters, and musicians—collide in a world suspended between fantasy and reality. Utterly enchanting and infused with surreali... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0307278735
    • ASIN: 0307278735
    • ISBN: 9780307278739
    • Brand: Vintage Books USA
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama

    This condensed anthology reproduces close to a dozen plays from Xiaomei Chen's well-received original collection, along with her critical introduction to the historical, cultural, and aesthetic evolution of twentieth-century Chinese spoken

    • UPC: 31134115

  • The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama (Weatherhead Books on Asia) (Hardcover)

    The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese

    • UPC: 31134116

  • The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama - eBook

    This condensed anthology reproduces close to a dozen plays from Xiaomei Chen's well-received original collection, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama, along with her critical introduction to the historical, cultural, and aesthetic evolution of

    • UPC: 219822863

  • Modern Chinese Drama [Nov 01, 2011] Zhao, Hongfan and Truman, Matthew

    This is a book for all fans of Chinese theater arts, from Kunqu and Peking Opera to Chinese and Western plays, operas, and stage or variety shows; from the smallest, most intimate neighborhood theaters to

    • UPC: 15209300

  • Made in China (NHB Modern Plays) - eBook

    From the award-winning writer of Howie the Rookie comes this blackly comic drama set in a crazed, completely re-imagined Dublin underworld, full of martial arts, rogue cops and savage low-lifes.Paddy's weapons of choice are baseball

    • UPC: 485794804

  • The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama - eBook

    The first of its kind in English, this anthology translates twenty-two popular Chinese plays published between 1919 and 2000, accompanied by a critical introduction to the historical, cultural, and aesthetic evolution of twentieth-century Chinese spoken

    • UPC: 960977632

  • Memoirs and Remarks Geographical, Historical, ... and Ecclesiastical. Made in Above Ten Years Travels Through the Empire of China : ... Written by the Learned Lewis Le Comte, Jesuit; ... a New Translation from the Best Paris Edition

    Memoirs and Remarks Geographical, Historical, ... and Ecclesiastical. Made in Above Ten Years Travels Through the Empire of

    • UPC: 923740885

  • The Comedies of Terence : With Text Metrically Arranged Throughout, and Copious English Notes, Original, and Selected from the Best Commentators, Ancient and Modern, with Prolegomena, Etc

    The Comedies of Terence: With Text Metrically Arranged Throughout, and Copious English Notes, Original, and Selected from the Best

    • UPC: 892989643

  • The Comedies of Terence : With Text Metrically Arranged Throughout, and Copious English Notes, Original, and Selected from the Best Commentators, Ancient and Modern, with Prolegomena, Etc

    The Comedies Of Terence: With Text

    • UPC: 387415877

  • The Comedies of Terence : With Text Metrically Arranged Throughout, and Copious English Notes, Original, and Selected from the Best Commentators, Ancient and Modern, with Prolegomena, Etc

    The Comedies of Terence: With Text Metrically Arranged Throughout, and Copious English Notes, Original, and Selected from the Best

    • UPC: 651774601

  • 15 Recommended Chinese Modern Dramas | Part II

    Best Chinese Romance drama must watch part 1

    Recommended Chinese Modern Dramas