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  • What's a Snow Leopard to You?

    A Novel

    by Chen-Fu Hsu ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin ...
    *Winner of the 2021 Taiwan Literature Award*A captivating fusion of travelogue, fiction, and cultural meditation that journeys deep into the heart of Tibet.Chen-Fu Hsu’s debut novel begins with a young Taiwanese naturalist on an arduous quest for the elusive snow leopard, weaving in excerpts from translated entries from a left behind diary of a fictional Japanese monk, which bears witness to the ... Read more

    $21.74 CAD

  • The Song of King Gesar

    by Alai ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin ...
    Series series Canongate Myths
    The first English translation of Tibet's founding myth, written by the renowned Chinese poet, novelist, and winner of China's Mao Dun Prize.The Song of King Gesar is one of the world's great epics, as significant for Tibetans as the Odyssey and Iliad were for the ancient Greeks. Passed down in song from one generation to the next, it is sung by Tibetan bards even today. Set partly in ancient Tibet ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revolution and Counterrevolution in China

    by Lin Chun ...
    A history of revolutionary China in the 20th centuryChina under XI Jingping has been experiencing unprecedented change. From the Belt and Road initiative to its involvement in Great Power struggles with the West, China is facing the world once more in the hope of reclaiming a lost Chinese greatness. But is "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" just neoliberal capitalism under another name? And, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon

    A Novel of Contemporary China

    by Liu Zhenyun ...
    Translated by Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Howard Goldblatt ...
    The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon, by prize-winning Chinese novelist Liu Zhenyun is a novel of Beijing that paints a microcosm of contemporary China, dealing with classes at the two extremes: the super rich and the migrant workers who make them rich through deceit and corruption.The protagonist, Liu Yuejin, is a work site cook and small-time thief whose bag is stolen. In searching ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • I Did Not Kill My Husband

    A Novel

    by Liu Zhenyun ...
    Translated by Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Howard Goldblatt ...
    Li Xuelian, married to Qin Yuhe, is pregnant with their second child. Happy news? Not in China, with its one-child policy. It is a crime. What is she to do? Her only option is divorcing before the second child is born.Once the baby has entered into the household registry, we’ll marry again. The baby will be born after the divorce, so we’ll each have one child when we marry again. No law says ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Transformation of Chinese Socialism

    by Chun Lin ...
    In this significant contribution to both political theory and China studies, Lin Chun provides a critical assessment of the scope and limits of socialist experiments in China, analyzing their development since the victory of the Chinese communist revolution in 1949 and reflecting on the country’s likely paths into the future. Lin suggests that China’s twentieth-century trajectory be grasped in ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Was Mao Really a Monster?

    The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday’s "Mao: The Unknown Story"

    Edited by Gregor Benton, Lin Chun ...
    Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday was published in 2005 to a great fanfare. The book portrays Mao as a monster – equal to or worse than Hitler and Stalin – and a fool who won power by native cunning and ruled by terror. It received a rapturous welcome from reviewers in the popular press and rocketed to the top of the worldwide bestseller list. Few works on China by writers in ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • My Enemy's Cherry Tree

    by Ting-Kuo Wang ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin ...
    A man who has come from nothing, from poverty and loss, finds himself a beautiful wife, his dream love. When she vanishes without a trace, he sets up a small caf� in her favourite spot on the edge of the South China Sea, hoping she'll return.Instead, he is confronted by the man he suspects may be responsible for everything he has suffered: Luo Yiming, a prominent businessman and philanthropist who ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Piano Tuner

    A Novel

    Translated by Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin ...
    by Chiang-Sheng Kuo ...
    This bestseller and winner of every major literary award in Taiwan is an elegiac novel about love and loss, broken dreams and desolate hearts—and music: "A delightful read."—Ha JinA widower grieving for his young wife. A piano tuner concealing a lifetime of secrets. An out-of-tune Steinway piano. A journey of self-discovery across time and continents, from a dark apartment in Taipei’s red-light ... Read more

    $24.64 CAD

  • A Spark in the Smokestacks

    Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities

    by Jean Yen-chun Lin ...
    Winner, 2024 Robert E. Park Book Award, Section on Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological AssociationEnvironmental organizing in Beijing emerged in an unlikely place in the 2000s: new gated residential communities. After rapid population growth and housing construction led to a ballooning trash problem and overflowing landfills, many first-time homeowners found their new ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • A Spark in the Smokestacks

    Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities

    by Jean Yen-chun Lin ...
    Winner, 2024 Robert E. Park Book Award, Section on Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological AssociationEnvironmental organizing in Beijing emerged in an unlikely place in the 2000s: new gated residential communities. After rapid population growth and housing construction led to a ballooning trash problem and overflowing landfills, many first-time homeowners found their new ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Information Theory, Mathematical Optimization, and Their Crossroads in 6G System Design

    by Shih-Chun Lin, Tsung-Hui Chang, Eduard Jorswieck, Pin-Hsun Lin ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book provides a broad understanding of the fundamental tools and methods from information theory and mathematical programming, as well as specific applications in 6G and beyond system designs. The contents focus on not only both theories but also their intersection in 6G. Motivations are from the multitude of new developments which will arise once 6G systems integrate new communication ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD