15 Recommended Chinese Modern Dramas | Part II
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Teahouse (Bilingual Series in Modern Chinese Literature)
- ASIN: 9629961253
- ISBN: 9629961253
- Manufacturer: The Chinese University Press
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 Repub... [Read More]
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The Heart of Chinese Poetry: Fifty-Seven of the Best Traditional Chinese Poems in a Dual-Language Edition
- ASIN: 038523967X
- ISBN: 038523967X
- Manufacturer: Anchor
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.
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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: 0140447407
- ISBN: 0140447407
- Manufacturer: 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 hi... [Read More]
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Everything I Never Told You
- UPC: 884863244159
- ASIN: 0143127551
- ISBN: 0143127551
- Brand: Celeste Ng
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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 D... [Read More]
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Disgrace: A Novel
- ASIN: 0140296409
- ISBN: 0140296409
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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 Y... [Read More]
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A Dictionary of Maqiao
- ASIN: 0385339356
- ISBN: 0385339356
- Brand: Shaogong, Han/ Lovell, Julia (TRN)
- Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback
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 invent... [Read More]
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The Story of the Western Wing
- ASIN: 0520201841
- ISBN: 0520201841
- Manufacturer: University of California Press
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 r... [Read More]
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Hawaii
- ASIN: 0375760377
- ISBN: 0375760377
- Brand: Dial Press
- Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback
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 seafar... [Read More]
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Drifting House
- ASIN: 0143122932
- ISBN: 9780143122937
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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 Korea... [Read More]
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Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
- ASIN: 0307948943
- ISBN: 0307948943
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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 Col... [Read More]
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Sayonara, Gangsters
- ASIN: 1932234055
- ISBN: 1932234055
- Brand: Brand: Vertical
- Manufacturer: Vertical
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... [Read More]
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Ursula, Under
- ASIN: 0143035452
- ISBN: 9780143035459
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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 plan... [Read More]
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The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another
- UPC: 760789206368
- ASIN: 1402201494
- ISBN: 1402201494
- Brand: Brand: Sourcebooks
- Manufacturer: Sourcebooks
A fascinating look at the other side of the Opium WarsIn this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 18391842 and 18561860 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 medic... [Read More]
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The Sound of Waves
- ASIN: 0679752684
- ISBN: 0679752684
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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.
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After Dark (Vintage International)
- ASIN: 0307278735
- ISBN: 9780307278739
- Brand: Vintage Books USA
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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... [Read More]
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The American Woman in the Chinese Hat
- ASIN: 0452275075
- ISBN: 0452275075
- Manufacturer: Plume
“An intense, incantatory, erotic novel . . . An exquisitely calibrated evocation of longing and lust.”—Vogue Abandoned by her lover of ten years and devastated by the painful death of her brother, an American writer named Catherine comes to live and heal her wounds in the lush, crisp, light-dappled French Riviera. But the sensual magic of ... [Read More]
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The China Lover: A Novel
- ASIN: 0143116088
- ISBN: 0143116088
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
From Shanghai before and during the Second World War to U.S. occupied Tokyo, and, finally, to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Ian Buruma's masterful novel about the intoxicating power of collective fantasy follows three star-struck men driven to extraordinary acts by their devotion to the same legendary woman. A beautiful Japanese girl born in ... [Read More]
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Bee Season: A Novel
- ASIN: 0385498802
- ISBN: 0385498802
- Manufacturer: Anchor
Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer-mom, Miriam. But when Eliza sweeps her school and district spelling bees ... [Read More]
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Waiting: A Novel
- ASIN: 0375706410
- ISBN: 0375706410
- Manufacturer: Vintage
"In Waiting, Ha Jin portrays the life of Lin Kong, a dedicated doctor torn by his love for two women: one who belongs to the New China of the Cultural Revolution, the other to the ancient traditions of his family's village. Ha Jin profoundly understands the conflict between the individual and society, between the timeless universality of the human ... [Read More]
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Dream of the Red Chamber
- ASIN: 0385093799
- ISBN: 0385093799
- Manufacturer: Anchor
For more than a century and a half, Dream of the Red Chamber has been recognized in China as the greatest of its novels, a Chinese Romeo-and-Juliet love story and a portrait of one of the world's great civilizations. Chi-chen Wang's translation is skillful, accurate and fascinating.
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