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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “wen zhen”
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  • Nothing But the Now

    Seven Short Stories by WEN Zhen

    by Zhen Wen ...
    Translated by Dave Haysom ...
    Series Book 2 - Bridge21 Contemporary Chinese Literature
    Nothing but the Now is a collection of seven stories, most of them about chance encounters in the world, the consequences of greed and temptation, the inescapable past, and moral dilemmas that seem to be tailored to each character’s flaws and foibles. The book explores the larger and more fundamental issues of life, death, love, and desire, and further interrogates the inter-relationships between ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD 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

    $10.13 CAD

  • Contemporary Value Systems in China

    by Zhen Han, Weiwen Zhang ...
    Translated by Chaoyong Zhao ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This work illustrates China’s values and how they are practiced. After introducing readers to the theories, systematical structure, historical status, and influence of traditional Chinese values, it points out major developmental trends in connection with modernization. Further, it explores the significance of the contemporary reconstruction of Chinese values and argues that these values can be ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Capture and Utilization of Carbon Dioxide with Polyethylene Glycol

    by Qing-Wen Song, Zhen-Zhen Yang, Liang-Nian He ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    In this volume, Professor He and his coworkers summarize polyethylene glycol (PEG)-promoted CO2 chemistry on the basis of understanding about phase behavior of PEG/CO2 system and reaction mechanism at molecular level. As PEG could be utilized as a green replacement for organic solvents, phase-transfer catalyst, surfactant, support in various reaction systems, significantly promoting catalytic ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Technological Progress and the Transformation of China’s Economic Development Mode

    by Wen Xiao ...
    Translated by Min Hui, Jie Yu, Zhen Liu, Tongsheng Zhao ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores how technological progress accelerates the transformation of economic development by adopting a fundamental logical approach to technological progress, intensive inputs, and promotion of productive efficiency to transformation of economic development. It investigates the internal mechanisms and the choice of corresponding modes that initiate technological progress to accelerate ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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    by Qiu Xiaolong ...
    Series Book 7 - Inspector Chen Cao
    **"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

    $2.99 CAD

  • 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

    $23.19 CAD

  • Shanghai Redemption

    by Qiu Xiaolong ...
    Series Book 9 - Inspector Chen Cao
    "The system has no place for a cop who puts justice above the interests of the Party. It's a miracle that I survived as long as I did."For years, Chen Cao managed to balance the interests of the Communist Party and the promises made by his job. He was both a Chief Inspector of Special Investigations of the Shanghai Police Department and the deputy party secretary of the bureau. He was considered a ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Shanghai Baby

    by Wei Hui Zhou ...
    Publicly burned in China for its sensual nature and irreverent style, this novel is the semi-autobiographical story of Coco, a café waitress, who is full of enthusiasm and impatience for life. She meets a young man, Tian Tian, for whom she feels tenderness and love, but he is reclusive, impotent and an increasing user of drugs. Despite parental objections, Coco moves in with him, leaves her job ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Frog

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    by Mo Yan ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES TOP BOOK OF THE YEARWASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK“Mo Yan’s voice will find it’s way into the heart of the American reader, just as Kundera and García Márquez have.” —Amy Tan author of The Joy Luck ClubFrom the Nobel-prize winning author of Red Sorghum and one China’s most revered writers, a novel exploring the One-Child Policy**Before the Cultural Revolution, Gugu, narrator ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Seventh Day

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    by Yu Hua ...
    Translated by Allan H. Barr ...
    From the acclaimed author of Brothers and To Live: a major new novel that limns the joys and sorrows of life in contemporary China.Yang Fei was born on a moving train. Lost by his mother, adopted by a young switchman, raised with simplicity and love, he is utterly unprepared for the tempestuous changes that await him and his country. As a young man, he searches for a place to belong in a nation ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Ruined City

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    by Jia Pingwa ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt ...
    Series series Chinese Literature Today Book Series
    When originally published in 1993, Ruined City (Fei Du) was promptly banned by China’s State Publishing Administration, ostensibly for its explicit sexual content. Since then, award-winning author Jia Pingwa’s vivid portrayal of contemporary China’s social and economic transformation has become a classic, viewed by critics and scholars of Chinese literature as one of the most important novels of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD