United Kingdom. Saqi Books. 2007. 126 pages, glossary, paperback. In a fit of jealousy, Xiao Yanqiu, star of "The Moon Opera", disfigures her understudy with boiling water. Spurned by the troupe, she turns to teaching. Twenty years later, "The Moon Opera" is restaged, under the patronage of a rich local... More
Melbourne. Tantanoola. 2016. 261pp, paperback. Restless China scholar Rubert Robinson leaves the refuge of his studio in Montsalvat artists' colony in outer Melbourne and embarks upon travels with Xiaorong, his former student, in order to discover and illuminate fragements of the age-old encounter between China and the West. During their... More
Melbourne. Tantanoola. 2017. 207pp, paperback. One of my Buddhism for dummies books says there are three fires to be avoided at all costs — desire, anger and delusion. I think my greatest desire — and delusion — is to see a meaning in the events that have taken place in... More
Norwalk. EastBridge, 2003. Reprint. xix + 432pp, paperback. "Oil for the Lamps of China (1934) was a best-selling novel when it was first published, just a few years after Pearl Bucks The Good Earth (1931). The hero of the story is a keen, young American businessman who wants to bring... More
United States. Hackett Publishing Co., 2010. xxxvi + 220 pages, glossary, bibliography, paperback. The late-imperial legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the "Butterfly Lovers" - a story as central to Chinese culture as Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is to Western culture - also relates a tale of two lovers... More
Queanbeyan. Critical Social Work Publishing House. 2017. Line illustrations, 105pp, paperback. "At the end of the 20th century, a young Australian botanist is sent to China by her secret boss to a secret place to find a secret plant that is wanted for a secret reason. "Don't ask, don't tell"... More
Hong Kong. The Chinese University Press. 2010. xliii + 234pp, paperback. This is a collection of Lin's essays on the Chinese life and culture. Written in Chinese and English spanning two decades from 1930s to 1950s, the essays pose questions on the cultural turn of the time and on the... More
United Kingdom. Hodder & Stoughton. 2007. 309 pages, paperback. When Inspector Chen Cao agrees to do a translation job for a Triad-connected businessman he is given a laptop, a 'little secretary' to provide for his every need, medical care for his mother. There are, it seems, no strings attached ...Then... More
United Kingdom. Bloomsbury. 2011. 354 pages, paperback. Nineteen-year-old Joy Louie has run away from her home in 1950s America to start a new life in China. Idealistic and unafraid, she believes that Chairman Mao is on the side of the people, despite what her family keeps telling her. How can... More
United States. Tuttle Publishing. 2012. Black and white line drawings, xxix + 226 pages, paperback. Join the Monkey King on his fantastic travels in this exciting version of the traditional Chinese folktale "Journey to the West." This legend has delighted countless generations, and this lovely retelling is a wonderful introduction... More
Australia. Penguin Books Australia. 2015. 86pp, paperback. During China's collectivist era in the later 1950s, a rural work team set to repair a river floodgate receives a new labour recruit: Hei-hai, a skinny, sorry, silent boy. Assigned to pump the bellows at the worksite forge, Hei-hai proves indifferent to pain... More
