Playing For Thrills

By Wang Shuo

A writer in Beijing, who is a prime suspect in a murder, interrogates his friends regarding the night in question. Did he actually kill someone? The writer, Fang Yan, was so drunk he cannot remember

Notes of a Desolate Man

By Chu T Ien Wen, Sylvia Li Chun Lin

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature

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The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature

By Joseph S. M. Lau

Rice

By Howard Goldblatt, Su Tong

Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused

By Howard Goldblatt

Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused

By Howard Goldblatt

China's avant-garde fiction

By Jing Wang

Filled with mirages, hallucinations, myths, mental puzzles, and the fantastic, the contemporary experimental fiction of the Chinese avant-garde represents a genre of storytelling unlike any other....

Blades of grass

By Lao She

"Lao She's stories proved to be very good indeed, moving and delighting readers for many years and establishing him as a master of classic modern fiction. Thankfully we now have access to a rich co...

The three-inch golden lotus

By Jicai Feng, Feng Jicai.

This beguiling story is woven around the life of Fragrant Lotus, who has her feet bound in the supreme Golden Lotus style when she is six years old. Her beautiful feet allow her to marry into a wea...