Bestsellers

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...

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 NovelThe city is dying – might Yuanyuan's obsession with blowing bigger and bigger bubbles be the answer? Cixin Liu's science fiction...

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

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

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...

On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing hospital. Years later, her daughter Liya travels from America to China with her mother's...

Translated by Ouyang YuNa 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, seeking...

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 who...

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...

A New World DisorderAs the world’s second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s...

With high-profile commissions and international collaborations under his belt, fashion illustrator Mr. SLOWBOY's first-ever book release curates the best of his fashion illustrations, including personal styling tips for additional appeal.Fashion...

A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and ScoundrelsTrue stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations of a Shanghai family, from the last days of imperial rule to the...

Translated by Ouyang YuMan Chen is a post-romantic poet who is at his best when language is polished like a withered flower, knowing its demise, but continuing to forge on...

Based on one of China's most famous online crime serials, a killer crowd-sources his victims, playing a deadly but ingenious game of cat-and-mouse with the police. For fans of Jo...

A dark Chinese suspense thriller about teenage accountability, where no one is innocent, for fans of Keigo Higashino.THE PERFECT CRIME DOESN'T EXISTOne beautiful morning, Zhang Dongsheng pushes his wealthy in-laws...

‘The Kingsbury Tales: A Complete Collection is a revolution in what a poetry book might be: a monumental and iconoclastic declaration at once, a refusal to be downtrodden but equally...

Illustrated by Sylvain RunbergWelcome to The Worlds of Cixin Liu, a series of graphic novels created by 35 artists including writers, illustrators and colourists from 13 countries, to salute the...

Illustrated by Xavier BesseWelcome to The Worlds of Cixin Liu, a series of graphic novels created by 35 artists including writers, illustrators and colourists from 13 countries, to salute the...

Illustrated by Jean-David MorvanWelcome to The Worlds of Cixin Liu, a series of graphic novels created by 35 artists including writers, illustrators and colourists from 13 countries, to salute the...

A story of a family paying the price of an unapproved birth under China's One-Child PolicyWhat price does a family pay for an unapproved birth?Li Fu and Mei, farmers from...

A memoir of love and labourA young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labour and self-worth...

Two captivating novellas from a #1 New York Times bestselling authorFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong comes two captivating new novellas set soon after the events of...

Flow is a debut collection of poems by Luoyang Chen published in collaboration with Centre for Stories and Red River Press in Delhi. Flow was developed and published as a...

A Memoir of an Undocumented ChildhoodThe New York Times bestselling memoir a girl who learns to live — and then escape — an invisible lifeIn China she was the daughter...

An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's ChinaA unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur who rose to the highest realms of power and money in...

A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy in Translation from a Visionary Team of Female and Nonbinary CreatorsFrom an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking...

Recipes and Modern Stories from a Thousand-Year-Old Tradition100+ fresh, plant-based, umami-packed recipes that show the range of traditional and modern Chinese vegan cuisine from the creator of The Plant-Based Wok.When...

Assassin. Immortal. Spy. An ill-matched pair of spies pose as a couple to investigate a series of murders in 1930s Shanghai, from the author of These Violent Delights.Four years ago,...

A BRAND NEW FANTASY FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR The only way to win, is to survive. Every year, thousands flock to San-Er, the dangerously dense capital...

He Who Drowned the World is the sequel to the Sunday Times bestseller She Who Became the Sun. What would you give to win the world? Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant...

A dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, ageing and the strangeness of contemporary life – from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The...

The bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo, a satire of the Cultural Revolution, in its first full English translation 'Life is but a slow, drawn-out process of getting your...

The captivating sequel to Foul Lady Fortune, by the New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights.Winter is drawing thick in 1931 Shanghai, as is the ever-nearing threat of...

The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in China, now in English for the first timeWang Xiaobo made his name as a novelist...

StoriesPraised as “utterly remarkable” and “deeply resonant” by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Robert Olen Butler, a bold and brilliant debut collection, in the vein of The Refugees,...

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

Translated by Michael BerryA twisted, wildly imaginative tale of one man's mysterious illness and his journey through a dystopian hospital system.When Yang Wei travels to C City for work, he...

A glorious, sweeping novel about family, migration and the search for a place to belongWith every misfortune there is a blessing and within every blessing, the seeds of misfortune, and...

An Imprisoned Writer SpeaksIn Xinjiang, the large northwest region of China, the government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs in re-education camps. One of the incarcerated — whose sentence,...

A graphic novel about the tale of MulanThe widespread of the folk song Ballad of Mulan immortalizes the legendary heroine Hua Mulan, who takes her aged father's place in the...

Veganise your favourite Chinese dishes at home with Vegan Chinese Food, from the founders of the hugely popular food blog littlericenoodle, Yang Liu and Katharina Pinczolits. Vegan Chinese Food gives...

Imperial China meets Edwardian England in this epic story of loves lost and gained, set during the aftermath of the Opium Wars. Best friends Jiali and Wu Fang know that...

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 stunning, deeply moving autobiographical novel about growing up in Beijing in the 1970s and 80s and taking part in the Tiananmen Square protests. It is Beijing in the 1970s,...

Daughter of Calamity is an irresistibly dark and atmospheric reimagining of 1930s Shanghai filled with glamour, gods and gangsters - perfect for fans of S. A. Chakraborty and Fonda Lee....

The National Book Award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash returns to his homeland in this searing novel that retells one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century - the rape of Nanjing....

The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to...