Su Tong, Man Asian Literary Prize-winning novelist and much-beloved author of Raise the Red Lantern, returns with a novel of moral dilemma and depravity in newly-capitalist 1980s China 'Su is a master of implication... - The Guardian 'His strokes are restrained but merciless. (Su Tong) is a true literary talent' - Anchee Min, author of Red Azalea The painterly quality of Tong's words is striking' - The Times Prey, Predator, Predator, Prey. On this street, the hunters are also the hunted. The people of China tell of an ancient tale, where the mantis hunts the cicada, unaware of the yellow bird behind it. In a small corner of one of its many cities, a random act of violence sets off a spinning top, entwining the lives of three people. Baorun, the compulsive bondage expert, is forever aided and abetted by Liu Sheng, a brash troublemaker, to indulge in his obsessions; and the lady Fairy Princess, ever-youthful, becomes the target of the pair's escalating antics. As the years pass, many things begin to change, but in the dysfunctional world of a mental hospital at the end of Red Toon Street, just who is prey, and who is predator? Often insightful and occasionally unsettling, Shadow of the Hunter is a memorable tale concerned with guilt, injustice, madness and the struggle not to lose one's soul to history. It is one of Su Tong's most acclaimed works, now available in English for the first time.

Shadow of the Hunter: A Novel

Su, Tong

Romance

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Tu Youyou: China's First Nobel Prize Winning Female Scientist

Biographies & Memoirs

Liu, Liping

Professionals & Academics

When making coffins is the best business in town, what hope is there for tomorrow? Amidst the maelstrom of Communist China's rocky beginnings, Guojiadian, a tiny hamlet situated on salty ground in the rural northeast where nothing grows, must forge a path through the turbulence - both physical and political - threatening to return the windswept village to the dust from which it emerged. Amongst the long-suffering village inhabitants lives Guo Cunxian, a man of rare ability trapped in an era of limitations. His quest for a better future for him and his family pits him against the jealousy of his peers, the indifference of his superiors and even the seemingly cursed earth upon which he resides. In a decades-long journey filled with frustration and false starts, they eventually rise to dizzy heights built upon foundations as stable as the dust beneath their feet and the mud walls which shelter them. But will their sacrifices along this tortuous path be in vain...?

Empires of Dust

Literature & Fiction

Zilong, Jiang

Literary

When a blood feud endangers seven young children, one Tibetan mastiff must prove his worth to save their lives. Old blood feuds on the Tibetan plateau flare up when seven children and their Tibetan mastiff, Gangri Senge, follow a Han journalist to a rival tribe's territory during the early days of the People's Republic of China. As the tribe plots to punish the children for their forefathers' crimes, it is up to Gangri Senge and the journalist who befriends him to rescue the children from a grisly fate. Based on first-hand accounts from author Yang Zhijun's father, this tale follows the lives of Tibet's legendary mastiffs as Gangri Senge and the dog-loving journalist struggle to save the captured children. Together they embark on an extraordinary journey across the vast Tibetan wilderness that will change the plateau and its tribes forever. Mastiffs of the Plateau is a fascinating glimpse into a bygone era and a moving tale of love and loyalty that explores what it means to be human in a world filled with beasts.

Mastiffs of the Plateau

Zhijun, Yang

The flesh is a boundary, you and I are two cages Of all the brief lives I've inhabited, humans are definitely the most interesting. Poetry and painting, literature and drama, song and dance; there's nothing they can't do. As I fell into this young creature named Ding Yi, a life filled with hardship, love and betrayal unfolded before me. I'll try to make this account as entertaining as possible, but please bear with me - it was several lifetimes ago. My Travels in Ding Yi is an epic novel told from the perspective of a nomadic spirit named Shi who inhabits a Chinese boy living in the second half of the 20th century. Shi describes coming of age during the Cultural Revolution in language that dips and soars from crude to lyrical, often in a single breath. Unpredictable and engrossing, this contemporary classic of Chinese fiction was first published in 2006 and is now available in English for the first time.

My Travels in Ding Yi

Tiesheng, Shi

World Literature

Will the newest branch of a decaying house be bent or broken by these uncertain times? It has been six years since China threw off imperial rule, yet Beijing seems largely unchanged. The city is a chaotic, roiling sea of humanity inhabited by merchants, hawkers and street urchins. In the midst of it all, Qi Yuexuan, the sole scion of a distinguished family, lives a life of indolence. But change is coming. Forces from within and without are becoming increasingly influential, while the new ideas they bring are shaking the foundations of the nation. Reappraising his entrenched values, Qi is torn between tradition and the new order. The Elm Tree paints an intimate, yet vivid picture of an extraordinary cast of characters associated with the Qi household. It documents a forgotten way of life before it was swept away by the turmoil of foreign occupation and civil war...

The Elm Tree (Volume 1): Seeds of Change

Pinglai, Mr Ma

Parenting & Relationships

 Evening, I made my one hundred and seventy-eighth scratch on the cave wall.Despite her humble rural beginnings, Butterfly regards herself as a sophisticated young woman. So, when offered a lucrative job in the city, she jumps at the chance.But instead of being given work, she is trafficked and sold to Bright Black, a desperate man from a poor mountain village.Trapped in Bright’s cave home, Butterfly struggles to repel his lustful advances, and she plans her escape… not so easily done in this isolated and remote village where she is watched day and night.Will her tenacity and free spirit survive, or will she be broken?

Broken Wings

Pingwa, Jia

What's left after a lifetime of service in the Chinese government? At the age of 66, Ouyang Wantong, the former governor of Qinghe province, was too young to die. He touched the lives of so many people during his time on Earth. Some of them loved him intimately, while many more held him in the highest esteem. But there were also those who hated him and wished him dead. And now the battle to find his rightful place in the history books has begun... After the Finale is a fictional biography of an extraordinary man who grew up in poverty in China's Mao era and then rose through the ranks of government during the country's period of reform and opening up. It's a tale of love, leadership, betrayal, corruption, lust, greed and the nature of power amid the rise of the 21st century's new superpower.

After the Finale

Daxin, Zhou

Genre Fiction

Final Witness: The Story of China's First Crime Scene Investigator

Hongjia, Wang

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