Contemporary Chinese Literature

by Allen Barr

HISTORY
2012
PAPER
224 PAGES

"Like ten pairs of eyes -- to scrutinize the current China under ten different angles," Yu Hua traces the transformation of life in China since the Cultural Revolution though key words. (CHN680, $15.00)

The Boat to Redemption

by Su Tong | Howard Goldblatt

LITERATURE
2011
HARD COVER
480 PAGES

In this deft picaresque by the author of Raise the Red Lantern., Su Tong follows the adventures of lovesick Secretary Ku, banished from the Party in after it has been officially proved he does not have a fish-shaped birthmark on his bottom and is therefore not the son of a revolutionary martyr. Winner of the 2009 Man Asia Prize. (CHN639, $26.95)

Big Breasts and Wide Hips, A Novel

by Mo Yan | Howard Goldblatt

LITERATURE
2012
PAPER
532 PAGES

The winner of China's most prestigious prize for fiction -- soon banned after it ran afoul of the guardians of official morality -- spans seven time periods, from the end of the Qing dynasty to China's post-Mao years, presenting the female body as the book's most important metaphor. (CHN731, $17.95)

Nanjing Requiem, A Novel

by Ha Jin

LITERATURE
2012
PAPER
320 PAGES

Award winning novelist Ha Jin re-creates the terror and menace of life in Nanjing after the Japanese invasion of 1937. (CHN681, $15.95)

Wolf Totem

by Jiang Rong

LITERATURE
2009
PAPER
544 PAGES

Defiant, unyielding, feared, hunted and revered, the great Mongolian wolf is the heart and center of Jiang Rong's epic tale of a young man from Beijing and his surprising encounters on the Mongolian steppe. A stirring epic, allegory and elegy for a vanished way of life, the novel won the first Man Asia Prize. (CHN471, $16.00)