A road trip with poetry-if that sounds like your kind of thing,then this is the book for you.Starting in Beijing,from where he heads straight to the birthplace of Confucius,quthor and poet Bill Porter travels around C...A road trip with poetry-if that sounds like your kind of thing,then this is the book for you.Starting in Beijing,from where he heads straight to the birthplace of Confucius,quthor and poet Bill Porter travels around China by train and car over 30 days,paying tribute at the gravestones and memorials of as many of China's great classical poets as he can.展开更多
What do the Chinese talk about when they talk about love?That’s the ambitious question the great cultural explainer Lynn Pan addresses in this fascinating study,whose lightness of touch belies impressive research.The...What do the Chinese talk about when they talk about love?That’s the ambitious question the great cultural explainer Lynn Pan addresses in this fascinating study,whose lightness of touch belies impressive research.There was a clear moment in 20th century China when impatience for reform coalesced-the May Fourth Movement,springing from fury that,after greatly contributing to victory in the First World War,tire nation was humiliated by the Treaty of Versailles,with German concessions in Shandong handed over to Japan rather than returned to China.展开更多
This is bestselling writer Song Ying’s first novel translated into English,and it gets straight to the point.We open with Hu Guohao struggling in the water off Shenzhen,drowning despite being a strong swimmer.H...This is bestselling writer Song Ying’s first novel translated into English,and it gets straight to the point.We open with Hu Guohao struggling in the water off Shenzhen,drowning despite being a strong swimmer.He hears a voice:"He's dead."And then he is.The next day,his body washes up on Lesser Meisha,a popular tourist beach.The central mystery of the novel thus reveals itself right away.Who has murdered this property tycoon,and how exactly did they do it?展开更多
Some writers take no prisoners.In his first book translated into English,satirist Diao Dou wows us with a heady stew of literary allusion,controlled anger and human frustration.
Is Liu Cixin China's worst great writer?Chine's best terrible writer?In Deaths End,the finale of his epic Three Body trilogy;his qualities and faults are as obvious as ever.This is amazing big picture science ...Is Liu Cixin China's worst great writer?Chine's best terrible writer?In Deaths End,the finale of his epic Three Body trilogy;his qualities and faults are as obvious as ever.This is amazing big picture science fiction,with a narrative covering millions of years.展开更多
What do the Chinese talk about when they talk about love?That's the ambitious question the great cultural explainer Lynn Pan addresses in this fascinating study,whose lightness of touch belies impressive research....What do the Chinese talk about when they talk about love?That's the ambitious question the great cultural explainer Lynn Pan addresses in this fascinating study,whose lightness of touch belies impressive research.There was a clear moment in 20th century China when impatience for reform coalesced-the May Fourth Movement,springing from fury that,after greatly contributing to victory in the First World War,the nation was humiliated by the Treaty of Versailles,with German concessions in Shandong handed over to Japan rather than returned to China.展开更多
"Amusingly,the committee in charge with creating a unified Snguage descended into fisticuffs at one stage due to dialect differences,leading one member to mistakenly believe he had bee n personally in suited"
Big ideas,big book.In this sequel to The Three-Body Problem,winner of the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel,Liu Cixin starts us off in the present day at an intriguing moment:we know exactly when annihilation will arrive...Big ideas,big book.In this sequel to The Three-Body Problem,winner of the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel,Liu Cixin starts us off in the present day at an intriguing moment:we know exactly when annihilation will arrive.So what do we do now?Liu's answer reveals both his strengths and weaknesses as a writer.展开更多
Quixotic doesnt even begin to cover it.In this rueful,enjoyable short history of Yorkshire man Chris Ruffle's ongoing attempts to build a Scottish-style castle and vineyard in Shandong Province,we see yet another ...Quixotic doesnt even begin to cover it.In this rueful,enjoyable short history of Yorkshire man Chris Ruffle's ongoing attempts to build a Scottish-style castle and vineyard in Shandong Province,we see yet another laowai caught in the gears of modern China.展开更多
Sometimes this takes him to national parks with pricey admission fees,but just as often he and a confused driver wander rural roads asking directions,or knock on locked gates hoping that someone lets them in.He even f...Sometimes this takes him to national parks with pricey admission fees,but just as often he and a confused driver wander rural roads asking directions,or knock on locked gates hoping that someone lets them in.He even finds himself turned away politely but firmly from military bases that have subsumed a poet's burial ground.展开更多
Big ideas,big book In this sequel to The Three-Body Problem,winner of the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel,Liu Cixin starts us off in the present day at an intriguing moment:we know exactly when annihilation will arrive...Big ideas,big book In this sequel to The Three-Body Problem,winner of the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel,Liu Cixin starts us off in the present day at an intriguing moment:we know exactly when annihilation will arrive.So what do we do now?Liu's answer reveals both his strengths and weaknesses as a writer.展开更多
Is Liu Cixin China’s worst great writer?China's best terrible writer?In Death's End,the finale of his epic Three Body trilogy,his qualities and faults are as obvious as ever.This is amazing big picture scienc...Is Liu Cixin China’s worst great writer?China's best terrible writer?In Death's End,the finale of his epic Three Body trilogy,his qualities and faults are as obvious as ever.This is amazing big picture science fiction,with a narrative covering millions of years,mind-blowing ideas and remarkably clear descriptions of difficult concepts like multi-dimensionality.展开更多
The Penguin China Specials have provided insight into everything from Bach to World War One from the China experts’China experts.Known for a lucid,intelligent look at modern China unhampered by ideology or cant,David...The Penguin China Specials have provided insight into everything from Bach to World War One from the China experts’China experts.Known for a lucid,intelligent look at modern China unhampered by ideology or cant,David Moser doesn’t disappoint with his entry in these series of short books-essentially pamphlets.In A Billion Voices,Moser’s topic is the rise of Mandarin as lingua franca for this huge country and its hundreds of dialects and languages.Originally pushed by the May Fourth crew as part of the modernization of China,the project had its difficulties,with a split between northerners who wanted the new language based on the Beijing dialect and a southern contingent who wanted a hybrid southern-northern form-the former being the most practical solution and of course eventually winning out.展开更多
Some writers take no prisoners.In his first book translated into English,sati-rist Diao Dou wows us with a heady stew of literary allusion,controlled anger and human frustration.
Quixotic doesn't even begin to cover it.In this rueful,enjoyable short history of Yorkshire man Chris Ruffle's ongoing attempts to build a Scottish-style castle and vineyard in Shandong Province,we...Quixotic doesn't even begin to cover it.In this rueful,enjoyable short history of Yorkshire man Chris Ruffle's ongoing attempts to build a Scottish-style castle and vineyard in Shandong Province,we see yet another laowai caught in the gears of modem China.展开更多
“I went to buy glasses today.”It’s not as arresting an opener as“Mother died today.Or maybe yesterday,I’m not sure,”the start of Camus’The Stranger,but A Perfect Crime is a clear homage to the classic of existe...“I went to buy glasses today.”It’s not as arresting an opener as“Mother died today.Or maybe yesterday,I’m not sure,”the start of Camus’The Stranger,but A Perfect Crime is a clear homage to the classic of existentialism,with a main character beset by anomie who commits an apparently motiveless murder and feels no guilt.展开更多
The Penguin China Specials series of short books is a joy;with writers including Paul French,Jonathan Fenby and Robert Bickers producing long essays of the kind that niiglit appear in the New York Review of Books.Two ...The Penguin China Specials series of short books is a joy;with writers including Paul French,Jonathan Fenby and Robert Bickers producing long essays of the kind that niiglit appear in the New York Review of Books.Two now books in the series each ad dress a specific example of crosscultural artistic pollinauonr with lines of influence going both ways between China and the West.展开更多
China memoir?History book?Love story?Why not all rhree?Michael Meyer argues that"perhaps no other region has exerted more influence on China across the last 400 years"than Dongbei,the northeastern regi...China memoir?History book?Love story?Why not all rhree?Michael Meyer argues that"perhaps no other region has exerted more influence on China across the last 400 years"than Dongbei,the northeastern region that was once Manchuria.He travels and chases parts of recent history that have been almost rubbed out,and has done his research-there’s an impressive bibliography at the end.But if s what brings him there that makes In Manchuria different.As"a sort of connubial quid pro quo"Meyer decides to live for a while in his wife's hometown,a Jilin Province village called Wasteland(Huangdi).展开更多
Yu Hua is a cunning writer:We didn't take to his latest novel at first,particularly after being blown away by his two previous books,the witty,angry memoir China in Ten Words and the inspiring story collection Boy...Yu Hua is a cunning writer:We didn't take to his latest novel at first,particularly after being blown away by his two previous books,the witty,angry memoir China in Ten Words and the inspiring story collection Boy in the Twilight.But that's on us;it took us a while to real-ize what he was doing.展开更多
Yu Hua is a cunning writer.We didn't take to his latest novel at first,particularly after being blown away by his two previous books,the witty,angry memoir China in Ten Words and the inspiring story collection Boy...Yu Hua is a cunning writer.We didn't take to his latest novel at first,particularly after being blown away by his two previous books,the witty,angry memoir China in Ten Words and the inspiring story collection Boy in the Twilight.But that's on us;it took us a while to realize what he was doing.When The Seventh Day begins,Yang Fei is already dead,with a 9.30am appointment for his own cremation.In a blurry,confusing city,he finds his way to the right place and takes his number to wait.展开更多
文摘A road trip with poetry-if that sounds like your kind of thing,then this is the book for you.Starting in Beijing,from where he heads straight to the birthplace of Confucius,quthor and poet Bill Porter travels around China by train and car over 30 days,paying tribute at the gravestones and memorials of as many of China's great classical poets as he can.
文摘What do the Chinese talk about when they talk about love?That’s the ambitious question the great cultural explainer Lynn Pan addresses in this fascinating study,whose lightness of touch belies impressive research.There was a clear moment in 20th century China when impatience for reform coalesced-the May Fourth Movement,springing from fury that,after greatly contributing to victory in the First World War,tire nation was humiliated by the Treaty of Versailles,with German concessions in Shandong handed over to Japan rather than returned to China.
文摘This is bestselling writer Song Ying’s first novel translated into English,and it gets straight to the point.We open with Hu Guohao struggling in the water off Shenzhen,drowning despite being a strong swimmer.He hears a voice:"He's dead."And then he is.The next day,his body washes up on Lesser Meisha,a popular tourist beach.The central mystery of the novel thus reveals itself right away.Who has murdered this property tycoon,and how exactly did they do it?
文摘Some writers take no prisoners.In his first book translated into English,satirist Diao Dou wows us with a heady stew of literary allusion,controlled anger and human frustration.
文摘Is Liu Cixin China's worst great writer?Chine's best terrible writer?In Deaths End,the finale of his epic Three Body trilogy;his qualities and faults are as obvious as ever.This is amazing big picture science fiction,with a narrative covering millions of years.
文摘What do the Chinese talk about when they talk about love?That's the ambitious question the great cultural explainer Lynn Pan addresses in this fascinating study,whose lightness of touch belies impressive research.There was a clear moment in 20th century China when impatience for reform coalesced-the May Fourth Movement,springing from fury that,after greatly contributing to victory in the First World War,the nation was humiliated by the Treaty of Versailles,with German concessions in Shandong handed over to Japan rather than returned to China.
文摘"Amusingly,the committee in charge with creating a unified Snguage descended into fisticuffs at one stage due to dialect differences,leading one member to mistakenly believe he had bee n personally in suited"
文摘Big ideas,big book.In this sequel to The Three-Body Problem,winner of the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel,Liu Cixin starts us off in the present day at an intriguing moment:we know exactly when annihilation will arrive.So what do we do now?Liu's answer reveals both his strengths and weaknesses as a writer.
文摘Quixotic doesnt even begin to cover it.In this rueful,enjoyable short history of Yorkshire man Chris Ruffle's ongoing attempts to build a Scottish-style castle and vineyard in Shandong Province,we see yet another laowai caught in the gears of modern China.
文摘Sometimes this takes him to national parks with pricey admission fees,but just as often he and a confused driver wander rural roads asking directions,or knock on locked gates hoping that someone lets them in.He even finds himself turned away politely but firmly from military bases that have subsumed a poet's burial ground.
文摘Big ideas,big book In this sequel to The Three-Body Problem,winner of the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel,Liu Cixin starts us off in the present day at an intriguing moment:we know exactly when annihilation will arrive.So what do we do now?Liu's answer reveals both his strengths and weaknesses as a writer.
文摘Is Liu Cixin China’s worst great writer?China's best terrible writer?In Death's End,the finale of his epic Three Body trilogy,his qualities and faults are as obvious as ever.This is amazing big picture science fiction,with a narrative covering millions of years,mind-blowing ideas and remarkably clear descriptions of difficult concepts like multi-dimensionality.
文摘The Penguin China Specials have provided insight into everything from Bach to World War One from the China experts’China experts.Known for a lucid,intelligent look at modern China unhampered by ideology or cant,David Moser doesn’t disappoint with his entry in these series of short books-essentially pamphlets.In A Billion Voices,Moser’s topic is the rise of Mandarin as lingua franca for this huge country and its hundreds of dialects and languages.Originally pushed by the May Fourth crew as part of the modernization of China,the project had its difficulties,with a split between northerners who wanted the new language based on the Beijing dialect and a southern contingent who wanted a hybrid southern-northern form-the former being the most practical solution and of course eventually winning out.
文摘Some writers take no prisoners.In his first book translated into English,sati-rist Diao Dou wows us with a heady stew of literary allusion,controlled anger and human frustration.
文摘Quixotic doesn't even begin to cover it.In this rueful,enjoyable short history of Yorkshire man Chris Ruffle's ongoing attempts to build a Scottish-style castle and vineyard in Shandong Province,we see yet another laowai caught in the gears of modem China.
文摘“I went to buy glasses today.”It’s not as arresting an opener as“Mother died today.Or maybe yesterday,I’m not sure,”the start of Camus’The Stranger,but A Perfect Crime is a clear homage to the classic of existentialism,with a main character beset by anomie who commits an apparently motiveless murder and feels no guilt.
文摘The Penguin China Specials series of short books is a joy;with writers including Paul French,Jonathan Fenby and Robert Bickers producing long essays of the kind that niiglit appear in the New York Review of Books.Two now books in the series each ad dress a specific example of crosscultural artistic pollinauonr with lines of influence going both ways between China and the West.
文摘China memoir?History book?Love story?Why not all rhree?Michael Meyer argues that"perhaps no other region has exerted more influence on China across the last 400 years"than Dongbei,the northeastern region that was once Manchuria.He travels and chases parts of recent history that have been almost rubbed out,and has done his research-there’s an impressive bibliography at the end.But if s what brings him there that makes In Manchuria different.As"a sort of connubial quid pro quo"Meyer decides to live for a while in his wife's hometown,a Jilin Province village called Wasteland(Huangdi).
文摘Yu Hua is a cunning writer:We didn't take to his latest novel at first,particularly after being blown away by his two previous books,the witty,angry memoir China in Ten Words and the inspiring story collection Boy in the Twilight.But that's on us;it took us a while to real-ize what he was doing.
文摘Yu Hua is a cunning writer.We didn't take to his latest novel at first,particularly after being blown away by his two previous books,the witty,angry memoir China in Ten Words and the inspiring story collection Boy in the Twilight.But that's on us;it took us a while to realize what he was doing.When The Seventh Day begins,Yang Fei is already dead,with a 9.30am appointment for his own cremation.In a blurry,confusing city,he finds his way to the right place and takes his number to wait.
