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    Remembering 1942

    Liu Zhenyun

    Sweeping, Humorous, and Moving Tales from One of Contemporary China's Greatest Writers The bestselling and award-winning author of novels satirizing contemporary China, Liu Zhenyun is also renowned for his short…

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    The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon

    Liu Zhenyun

    Winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon by the acclaimed prize-winning novelist Liu Zhenyun, is a gripping portrayal of contemporary China…

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    One Day Three Autumns

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    One Day Three Autumns was written to preserve the memory of the author's sixth uncle, a talented artist whose paintings were tragically burned after his death. It attempts to bring…

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    Representing Atrocity in Taiwan: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film

    Sylvia Li-Chun Lin

    Drawing on secondary theoretical material as well as her own original research, the author conducts an analysis of the political, narrative, and ideological structures involved in the fictional and cinematic…

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    A Son of Taiwan: Stories of Government Atrocity

    The 2/28 Incident led to 40 years of martial law-there was suppression of dissent, encroachments upon civil liberties, and violation of human rights-an era know as the White Terror. In…

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    One Day Three Autumns

    Liu Zhenyun

    One Day Three Autumns was written to preserve the memory of the author's sixth uncle, a talented artist whose paintings were tragically burned after his death. It attempts to bring…

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    Strange Bedfellows

    Zhenyun Liu

    Strange Bedfellows by Liu Zhenyun, China’s most renowned writer of satire, is a farcical tale of exploitation and corruption all played out more or less in bed.

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    The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon: A Novel of Contemporary China

    Liu Zhenyun

    A darkly humorous novel of contemporary China. Liu Yuejin, a work site cook and small-time thief, searches for his stolen bag but finds another that contains a flash disk chronicling…

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    Documenting Taiwan on Film: Issues and Methods in New Documentaries

    To date, there is but a handful of articles on documentary films from Taiwan. This volume seeks to remedy the paucity in this area of research and conduct a systematic…

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    Documenting Taiwan on Film: Issues and Methods in New Documentaries

    To date, there is but a handful of articles on documentary films from Taiwan. This volume seeks to remedy the paucity in this area of research and conduct a systematic…

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    I Did Not Kill My Husband: A Novel

    Liu Zhenyun

    To avoid China’s one-child policy, Li Xuelian divorced her husband intending to remarry after their second child is born. Only before they can, he marries another woman. Mad with rage…

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    I Did Not Kill My Husband: A Novel

    Liu Zhenyun

    To avoid China’s one-child policy, Li Xuelian divorced her husband intending to remarry after their second child is born. Only before they can, he marries another woman. Mad with rage…

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    Someone to Talk To: A Novel

    Zhenyun Liu

    Originally published in China in 2009 and appearing in English for the first time, Liu Zhenyun’s award-winning Someone to Talk To follows two men living seventy years apart who in…

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    Someone to Talk To: A Novel

    Zhenyun Liu

    Originally published in China in 2009 and appearing in English for the first time, Liu Zhenyun’s award-winning Someone to Talk To follows two men living seventy years apart who in…

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    My Enemy’s Cherry Tree

    Ting-Kuo Wang

    How long would you wait for her? - Haruki Murakami meets Indecent Proposal in this novel of love, money and betrayal.

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    The Piano Tuner: A Novel

    Chiang-Sheng Kuo

    A bestseller and winner of every major literary award in Taiwan, an elegiac and deceptively quiet novel about love and loss, broken dreams and desolate hearts-and music

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    Notes of a Desolate Man

    Chu T'ien-wen

    This postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important novels to emerge from Taiwan in recent…

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    The Chinese Wonder Book: A Classic Collection of Chinese Tales

    Norman Hinsdale Pitman

    Originally published in 1919, this book has served as an introduction to the folk tales of China for generations of readers

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    Remembering 1942: And Other Chinese Stories

    Liu Zhenyun

    Sweeping, humorous, and moving tales from one of contemporary China’s greatest writers. The bestselling and award-winning author of novels satirizing contemporary China, Liu Zhenyun is also renowned for his short…

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    Notes of a Desolate Man

    T'ien-Wen Chu

    This postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important novels to emerge from Taiwan in recent…

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