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A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American After spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffalos and devouring stinky tofu, Laura immigrates to Texas, where her hometown is...

Translated by Jeremy Tiang A provincial ambulance drives through the night in search of a hospital, a fifth-rate actor goes method as a hitman on a sweltering rooftop, a legendary...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIRWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOKS CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2025 ANISFIELD WOLF PRIZEWINNER OF THE LIBBY AWARD FOR BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL...

Translated by Carlos Rojas A laugh-out-loud political and sexual satire about the Chinese Cultural Revolution, by the acclaimed author of Serve The People! Hard Like Water is a brilliant satire...

Chinese Australian Voices South Flows the Pearl is a fascinating journey through the history of Chinese Australia. Taking the reader from Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta to Sydney, Perth,...

A dazzling debut collection which, deftly and urgently, tells the stories of those living in the biggest and most complicated country on earth.A brother competes for gaming glory while his...

An unforgettable portrait of the tectonic shifts happening in rural China. After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in...

The epic first novel in a sweeping series following the romantic lives and intrigues of the fictionalized descendants of a Chinese empress — now in paperback! Behind every great family...

Offering ancient wisdom on how to use skill, cunning, tactics and discipline to outwit your opponent, this bestselling 2000-year-old military manual is still worshipped by soldiers on the battlefield and...

The dreamlike story of a young woman in contemporary Beijing forging a different life for herself, from one of our brightest new literary stars. One morning in autumn, just after...

The Eisner-nominated MONSTRESS is back! Maika, Kippa, and Ren journey to Thyria in search of answers to her past... and discover a new, terrible, threat. Maika Halfwolf is on the...

The second book in The Dandelion Dynasty, the epic fantasy trilogy by Ken Liu. Kuni Garu, now Emperor of Dara, confronts the challenges of supreme power: both from within and...

A pianist in Beijing must find a way to the life she really wants, in this atmospheric new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Braised Pork For three years,...

Escape from China's modern-day concentration camps A shocking depiction of one of the world's most ruthless regimes — and the story of one woman's fight to survive. I will never...

Ai Weiwei — one of the world's most famous artists and activists — tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the...

For fans of Children of Blood and Boneand Six of Crows comes the thrilling conclusion to the Blood Heir trilogy. A princess with a dark secret must ally with a...

Translated by Joshua L. Freeman A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history'Essential reading'AI WEIWEI, author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows'Deserves to be...

BLOOD HEIR is the first book in an epic new series about a princess hiding a dark secret and the conman she must trust to clear her name of murder....

 The collected stories of Cixin Liu, international bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem. From cosmological horror to wry satire, from first contact to the end of everything, these 32 stories explore...

Long-listed for the Man Booker International Prize 2018, The Stolen Bicycle is now available in a more compact paperback edition.A writer embarks on an epic quest in search of his missing father's...

The Immortality Trials offer a second chance in this brutal world and are open to any mortal willing to risk the journey to the immortal realm. The prize for completing...

Translated by Michael Berry "She knew that if she didn't say her piece, that flame would never be extinguished; even after death, it would continue raging." The Running Flame opens...

Translated by Scott E. Myers Mu Cao is a bold, pioneering Chinese novelist who dares to challenge the status quo—living openly gay in China and shedding a strong light on...

How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline The long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how...

Hidden deep in the mountains, the recruits at 'Unit 701', China's secret services, operate in a dark, shadowy world. There is the 'wind-listener', a blind surveillance officer who can hear...

Translated by Li-Young Lee, Yun Wang A landmark translation of the timeless classic of Daoist wisdom, rendered in gorgeous poetry that illuminates its enduring teachings. This bold new translation by...

'China The Cookbook is a magnificent insight into the history of Chinese cuisine. I will treasure it in my collection and it will be no doubt be used as valuable...

'A layered, beautifully written, and deeply moving novel. Karissa Chen masterfully blends love, music, history, and heartbreak to create a sweeping tale that spans decades and continents' - Abi Dare There...

What if you could avenge your own murder? A brilliant young woman gets a second chance at life in this debut YA tale of vengeance, court intrigue, and romance, inspired...

 'We're mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can...

Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets in Translation the lantern light seems to have written a poem;they feel lonesome since i won’t read them.—“lantern” by Fei Ming The work of...

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest writers In this darkly comic novel, a group of women...

A first contact SF novel, from the Hugo Award winning author of Folding Beijing. 2080, the world is divided, dominated by two antagonistic factions, the Pacific League and the Atlantic Alliance....

*A Sunday Times, Observer & BBC Highlight for 2024*This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, in a society about...

Known as The Girl Blessed By Death, Yang Ruying wants only to survive, but when her magic is discovered by an enemy prince she must decide if saving her family...

Unforgettable, snarky and romantic, I Hope This Doesn't Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys I've Loved Before if Lara Jean wrote hate emails instead...

When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers...

Translated by Ken Liu AD 2201: Earth and the colonies of Mars attempt a reconciliation after a century-long Cold War. Can two mutually antagonistic cultures forget the past and embrace...

The Life and Times of a Chinese MillennialKaroline Kan was born in 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre: her generation has always been caught between China's authoritarian politics...

Fans of Children of Blood and Bonewill love the sequel to Blood Heir. The second book in an epic fantasy series about a princess hiding a dark secret and the...

One day, not so very many years ago, a small peasant boy was chosen to study ballet at the Beijing Dance Academy. His mother urged him to take this chance...

Architecture, Philosophy and the Good Life in ChinaAn accessible and highly-original introduction to Chinese architecture, philosophy and cultural history.For more than three thousand years, Chinese life from the city and...

Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel The city is dying – might Yuanyuan's obsession with blowing bigger and bigger bubbles be the answer? Cixin Liu's science...

Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel Faced with the inevitable devastation and heat death of their planet, humankind must use their final breaths to fight for...

Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel An interstellar war that has waged for thousands of years is coming to an end. The victor plans to perform...

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure...

Translated by Ouyang Yu Na Ye’s poetry shows her as a woman relaxed at her work, smoking while staring inwardly at the outside world, focusing on her own inner world,...

Translated by Ouyang YuA long civilisation produces poets and entrepreneurs alike. But a long civilisation like China produces poet-entrepreneurs and entrepreneur-poets, or even entrepoetreneurs. That's a major difference between China...

A solo female traveller navigates the world and discovers that freedom is possible. How to Ride a Train to Ulaanbaatar and Other Essays is a coming-of-age story of a woman...

Translated by Eleanor GoodmanThis selection collects some of the most influential and moving work of the poet Zheng Xiaoqiong, who spent nearly a decade at the beginning of the century...