China Fiction

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s 2022 First Novel Prize! “Belinda Huijuan Tang’s debut novel is a beautifully drawn, sensitively rendered portrait of a man desperately searching for his father—and for reconnection to the past and people he once knew and loved. Both rich in...

Jack Flashhardt is back! Still a Captain in the Marine Corps, he has been classified as a deserter and wants to sneak across the Mexican border into America to fight his criminal status. But after Jack makes it to America, he is arrested and told by a General of a secret government entity that they want him to fake a climb of Mt Elbrus of the Caucasus Mountains, where he and his team will eliminate a Chinese hacking gang that is stealing American technology. Jack is offered freedom from his deserter status if he completes the mission. Jack forms a combat team and the adventure begins.

A dive into one of China's great poets by the first great populariser of Chinese literature, Arthur Waley.

En el reino de Dàxī, el té guarda una poderosa magia y una antigua sabiduría. Por eso los shénnóng-shī, maestros en el arte del té, son personas con años de entrenamiento que gozan de un gran prestigio entre las esferas más altas de la sociedad. Cuando Ning se entera de la competencia para encontrar al nuevo mejor shénnóng-shī del reino, viaja a la ciudad imperial para participar. El ganador recibirá un favor de la princesa Ying-Zhen y con ello Ning tendría la oportunidad de salvar la vida de su hermana.

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In search of respite, China takes off to St. Theresa's Monastery with her friend Maggie, a former nun. The goal is a brief, tranquil retreat—but there's a conflict at the convent. The Mother Superior has recently died, and a battle over the future of St. Theresa's suggests that her sudden demise might not have been accidental. Now, China's quest for a replenished spirit takes second place to a more earthbound pursuit: catching a killer.

China Bayles's herb shop in Pecan Springs wasn't a big business, but it kept her busy. So she brought her taxes to Rosemary Robbins, an accountant who reminded China a bit of her former self—preoccupied, distracted, maybe a bit overstressed. Still, Rosemary always seemed pleasant, and China wished she could get to know her better. Now, though, the chance is gone.

When a prominent animal researcher is found hanged in the midst of angry protests against his experiments, suspicion falls on biology professor Dottie Riddle. Known as the Cat Lady of Pecan Springs, Dottie's sympathy for strays—and the victim's distaste for them—gives the police reason to think she may be capable of murder. But China Bayles doesn't think so. She hires a lawyer for Dottie and starts looking around for clues. But she soon discovers that digging up old evil is a dirty and dangerous business...

Here is the compelling story of six American families and their desperate attempt to keep their newly adopted Chinese children. Before leaving China, authorities demand the infants be returned without offering the slightest explanation. What if three of the families refuse? What if they risk everything and attempt a renegade run through China with the babies? Featuring a pulse-pounding narration by George Guidall, China Run will keep listeners on the edge of their seats from start to finish.

Nach China? Dahin wollte natürlich niemand mit, auch Keith nicht, ein pathologischer Lügner, der seinen sonderbaren Großvater auf die Reise hätte begleiten sollen...

Take a journey into the magical, creative world of Doodles Lanhorn, a 14-year-old boy gifted with exceptional Wizartry powers, where the art of drawing makes something come to life just with the whirl of his hand! In this latest adventure, Doodles takes an action-packed trip to China to compete in the annual Wizartry Competition, determined to win a seat on the Wizartry Council even though he is the youngest contestant, so he could change the realm for the better.

A disturbingly realistic vision of war several decades into the future. Invasion: China is as ambitious as it is powerful. Using advanced technologies in military science, the world's superpowers battle on land, sea, air, and space for global supremacy. This controversial tale will keep you sleepless at night as America challenges the new colossus in the East: Greater China and her Pan-Asian allies. Hard-hitting. Vast in scope. And all too possibly real.

Is it too much to ask for an ordinary, boring life? Bai Jian is a typical Chinese boy growing up in a big city. But his life is far from typical: his mother abandoned him when he was a baby, and his father, Hei Jian, is always out of work, always fighting with his long parade of girlfriends, always getting the two of them involved in some harebrained scheme.

Cindy Mayfield is a OSI (Office of Special Investigations) Special Agent. She joined the OSI to learn more about the government lie called MK-Ultra, a lie she learned about as a Correctional Officer at California Medical Facility. This leads her on the trail of virus and vaccine recipes, and ultimately, to China. Her OSI controller stumbles onto 2020 Presidential Ballots, printed in Guangdong, China. Agent Mayfield discovers a far bigger government lie than MK-Ultra - the COVID virus is tied to a coup d’état of the Presidential Election.

China, in nicht allzu ferner Zukunft. Während die Welt von einer Sternenflotte vom Planeten Trisolaris bedroht wird, liegt Yun Tianming auf dem Sterbebett. Doch dann wird er für eine unglaubliche Aufgabe auserwählt: Er soll die Menschheit retten und als ihr Bote zu den Trisolariern geschickt werden. Er willigt ein und wird nach seinem Tod ins All geschossen. Seitdem hat niemand auf der Erde von ihm gehört. Dies ist seine Geschichte – es ist die Geschichte eines Verrats.

Weit über 3 Millionen verkaufte Romane weltweit - Cixin Liu hat der chinesischen Science-Fiction die Tür zur westlichen Welt geöffnet. An seinem vierzehnten Geburtstag muss der junge Chen miterleben, wie seine Eltern vor seinen Augen getötet werden. Ein mehrere tausend Grad heißer Feuerball fährt in das alte Haus und verwandelt alles in Asche - ein Kugelblitz. Ab diesem Ereignis hat Chen nur noch ein Ziel im Leben: Er will diesem rätselhaften Naturphänomen auf den Grund gehen und es erforschen.

On the day of the historic 1945 Jewel Voice Broadcast - in which Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s surrender to the Allied forces, bringing an end to World War II - three men, flush with jubilation, made a pact. After their deaths, each year on the anniversary of the broadcast, their souls would return to the Chinese village of their younger days. Now, seventy years later, the pledge is being fulfilled by American missionary Pastor Billy, brash gunner’s mate Ian Ferguson, and local soldier Liu Zhaohu. All that’s missing is Ah Yan - also known as Swallow.

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An award-winning novel about the value of friendships in present-day Singapore—a “stirring debut…relatable yet unsettling [that] smartly captures earnest teenage myopathy through a tumultuous high school relationship” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). “I am Miss Frankenstein, I am...

From an exciting new voice in literary fiction, a transfixing story about an expatriate in southern China and his burgeoning relationship with a seamstress intent on inspiring dramatic political change Alex Cohen, a twenty-six-year-old Jewish Bostonian, is living in southern China, where his...