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  • Night Train

    by Zechen Xu ...
    Translated by Jeremy Tiang ...
    Looking to take a vacation before settling in for to his PHD studies and hoping to swindle a little traveling money from his father, Chen Munian made up a story about killing someone and needing to flee. But now that lie has taken on a life of its own and everyone—the university, the police, the sprawling campus community—is convinced he’s murderer.Munian is barely holding on: his wages are meager ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Beijing Sprawl

    by Xu Zechen ...
    Translated by Jeremy Tiang, Eric Abrahamsen ...
    Muyu, a seventeen-year-old from a small village, came to Beijing for his piece of the dream: money, love, a good life. But in the city, daily life for him and his friends—purveyors of fake IDs and counterfeit papers—is a precarious balance of struggle and guile. Surveying the neighborhood from the rooftop of the apartment they all share, the young men play cards, drink beer, and discuss their ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • The Selected Stories of Xu Zechen

    Plum Rain and Other Works

    by Zechen Xu ...
    Translated by Arrieta Fernando ...
    Series Book 1 - Bridge21 Contemporary Chinese Literature
    This book contains six works that each reflect the different styles of the author in each period of his work, paying attention to men of low status, memories of childhood, campus life, and the living conditions of Beijing’s drifters. Told in a straightforward manner, all the stories in this book are told in the first person and can be regarded together as a spiritual autobiography. Xu Zechen won ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Beijing

    A City in Short Fiction

    by Bingbing Shi, Qiu Huadong, Ning Ken, Xu Kun, Fu Xiuying, Gu Shi, Yu Wenling, Shi Yifeng, Xu Zechen, Wen Zhen, Han Song ...
    Series series Reading the City
    Two former college friends run into each other on the morning train and find themselves reflecting on the very different paths their lives have taken...A counterfeiter, forever living outside the law, starts to envy a friend who’s managed to get out of the game and establish a normal life...A security officer in a futuristic version of Beijing West Railway Station chases down a passenger who the ... Read more

    $7.37 USD

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  • Shanghai Redemption

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  • The Seventh Day

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  • Land of Big Numbers

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  • Don't Cry, Tai Lake

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    **"Dark, gorgeous…feels authentically Chinese and it works like a charm." --Washington Post Book World on A Case of Two CitiesChief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is offered a bit of luxury by friends and supporters within the Party – a week's vacation at a luxurious resort near Lake Tai, a week where he can relax, and recover, undisturbed by outside demands or disruptions. ... Read more

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  • The Mao Case

    by Qiu Xiaolong ...
    Series Book 6 - Inspector Chen Cao
    Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is the head of the Special Case group and is often put in charge of those cases that are considered politically "sensitive" since. As a rising party cadre, he's regarded by many as reliable. But Inspector Chen, though a poet by inclination and avocation, takes his job as a policeman very seriously, despite the pressures put upon him from ... Read more

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