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
United Kingdom: Little, Brown Book Group, 2013. 309pp, paperback. From the Inspector Singh series of detective fiction written by Singaporean author Shamini Fling. Inspector Singh is on a mission to China, against his better judgment. The son of a bigwig at the Singapore Embassy has been bludgeoned to death in... 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
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
New York. Pantheon Books. 2019. Notes, bibliography, 301pp, hardback in dustjacket. With the instincts of a master novelist, Ha Jin draws on a wide range of historical and literary sources to weave the life story of Li Bai (701-762), whose poems--shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance... 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. 2010. 289 pages, paperback. Tucked away from the building sites of modern Shanghai are the beautiful mansions once owned by the smartest families in 1930s China. They have since been bought by rich businessmen and high-ranking members of the Communist Party. All except one. The... 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
