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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
At the start of the Great Beastly Cultural Revolution in 1966, Mao Zedong exploited idealism and urged youth to smash the Four Olds, that is, anything like priceless cultural treasures or anybody like strict teachers tha… -
A Path through China
Red Dust is an account of a Chinese artist's three-year journey in the hinterlands of China during the mid-Eighties. Author Ma Jian was dealing with a marriage gone kaput, police surveillance and the looming Eliminate S… -
The Seedy Side of the People's Paradise
I Love Dollars: And Other Stories of China is a short story collection by Zhu Wen. The six stories of life in China in the get-rich-quick 1990s are I Love Dollars; A Hospital Night; A Boat Crossing; Wheels; Ah, Xiao Xie;… -
Will a Moon so Bright Ever Arise Again?
Lin Yutang was well-known in the US in the 1940s and 1950s for his books about modern and traditional China. The biography The Gay Genius: The Life and Times of Su Tungpo is about the life of Sung era poet-essayist-offic… -
Uncanny Tales
Strange tales of Liaozhai by Pu Songling, a collection of fantastic tales, is considered one of the masterpieces of Chinese literature of the Qing, or Manchu, era (1644 – 1912). Writer-teacher Pu (1640 - 1715) was a fail… -
A Journey through China
Behind the Wall: A Journey through China is an excellent travel account by British travel writer Colin Thubron. In the middle 1980s – i.e., less than decade after the end of the chaos of the Great Beastly Proletarian Cul… -
China Challenge!
For the China Challenge! I choose the Fast Train to Shanghai option, which is to read 5 books about China. This list may change: 1. (Chinese authors that also write in English) Death of a Red Heroine - Qiu Xiaolong. Rev… -
Running Circles Around Other People
Published in 1979, The Monkey King by Timothy Mo is considered a ground-breaking novel for “ethnic” writers but the story is so universal that I think anybody can enjoy it. Set in Hong Kong in the 1950s, the story shows … -
From Tibet to New Delhi
I read From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet by Vikram Seth as the 10th of ten for the Orbis Terrarum 2009 Challenge. Seth lived in China as a foreign student from 1980 to 1982. During the summer of 1981… -
A Postcard-perfect Empire
I read this as the 4th of ten for the Orbis Terrarum 2009 Challenge. Emperor of China: Self-portrait of K'ang-hsi is an early work by the distinguished Yale scholar Jonathan Spence, who since this 1974 book has written …
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