Skip to main content

Panier

Vous profitez des avantages réservés aux VIP !

Article(s) non disponible(s) à la vente
Veuillez vérifier votre panier. Vous pouvez supprimer le ou les articles qui ne sont pas disponibles maintenant ou nous les supprimerons automatiquement au moment du règlement de la commande.
articlesarticle
articlesarticle

Recommandé pour vous

Loading...
  • Short Stories in Chinese

    New Penguin Parallel Text

    Modifié par John Balcom ...
    Collections series Penguin Parallel Text
    A dual-language edition of Chinese stories—many appearing in English for the first timeThis new volume of eight short stories offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature from the world’s most spoken language, without having to constantly to refer back to a dictionary.The stories—many of which appear here in English for the first time—are by well ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • The City Trilogy

    Five Jade Disks, Defenders of the Dragon City, and Tale of a Feather

    Traduit par John Balcom ...
    par Hsi-kuo Chang ...
    Collections series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    Taiwan's most innovative science fiction writer presents three tales of intrigue, espionage, betrayal, political strife, time travel, and Chinese history and mysticism. After thousands of years of civil unrest and countless wars, the weary Huhui people of Sunlon City have once again succumbed to a ruthless and overpowering enemy. In Five Jade Disks, the first book in the trilogy, the imperialistic ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Wintry Night

    par Qiao Li ...
    Traduit par Taotao Liu, John Balcom ...
    Collections series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    An epic spanning more than half a century of Taiwan's history, this breathtaking historical novel traces the fortunes of the Pengs, a family of Hakka Chinese settlers, across three generations from the 1890s, just before Taiwan was ceded to Japan as a result of the Sino-Japanese war, through World War II. Li Qiao brilliantly re-creates the dramatic world of these pioneers—and the colonization of ... En savoir plus

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Great Flowing River

    A Memoir of China, from Manchuria to Taiwan

    par Chi Pang-yuan ...
    Traduit par John Balcom ...
    Heralded as a literary masterpiece and a best-seller in the Chinese-speaking world, The Great Flowing River is a personal account of the history of modern China and Taiwan unlike any other. In this eloquent autobiography, the noted scholar, writer, and teacher Chi Pang-yuan recounts her youth in mainland China and adulthood in Taiwan. Chi’s remarkable life, told in rich and striking detail, ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Great Flowing River

    A Memoir of China, from Manchuria to Taiwan

    par Chi Pang-yuan ...
    Traduit par John Balcom ...
    Heralded as a literary masterpiece and a best-seller in the Chinese-speaking world, The Great Flowing River is a personal account of the history of modern China and Taiwan unlike any other. In this eloquent autobiography, the noted scholar, writer, and teacher Chi Pang-yuan recounts her youth in mainland China and adulthood in Taiwan. Chi’s remarkable life, told in rich and striking detail, ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • Memories of Mount Qilai

    The Education of a Young Poet

    Traduit par John Balcom ...
    par Yang Mu ...
    Collections series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    Hualien, on the Pacific coast of eastern Taiwan, and its mountains, especially Mount Qilai, were deeply inspirational for the young poet Yang Mu. A place of immense natural beauty and cultural heterogeneity, the city was also a site of extensive social, political, and cultural change in the twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and the American bombings of World War II to the Chinese ... En savoir plus

    $57.99 CAD

  • Zero and Other Fictions

    Traduit par John Balcom ...
    par Fan Huang ...
    Collections series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    Huang Fan burst onto Taiwan's literary scene in the 1980s, publishing pointed urban portraits and political satires that captured the reading public's attention. After decades of innovative work, he is now one of Asia's most celebrated authors, crucial to understanding the development of Taiwanese literature over the past fifty years.The first collection of Huang Fan's work to appear in English, ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

  • Trees Without Wind

    A Novel

    par Rui Li ...
    Traduit par John Balcom ...
    Collections series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Unfolding in the tense years of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Trees Without Wind takes place in a remote Shanxi village in which a rare affliction has left the residents physically stunted. Director Liu, an older revolutionary and local commune head, becomes embroiled in a power struggle with Zhang Weiguo, a young ideologue who believes he is the model of a true revolutionary. Complicating ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Running Mother and Other Stories

    par Songfen Guo ...
    Traduit par John Balcom ...
    Collections series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    Guo Songfen's short stories are masterful psychological portraits that play with the echoes of history and the nature of identity. One of the few modernists to truly capture the fallout from such events as the February 28th Incident and the White Terror, Guo Songfen illuminates the quiet core of his characters through a spare and immediate style that is at once a symptom and an allegory of the ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

Les lecteurs de ces romans ont aussi aimé

  • Wild Swans

    Three Daughters of China

    par Jung Chang ...
    The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Fat Years

    A Novel

    par Chan Koonchung ...
    Banned in China, this controversial and politically charged novel tells the story of the search for an entire month erased from official Chinese history.Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one could care less—except for a small circle of friends, who will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the sinister ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • A Leaf In The Bitter Wind

    A Memoir

    par Ting-Xing Ye ...
    One of the best ways to understand history is through eye-witness accounts. Ting-Xing Ye’s riveting first book, A Leaf in the Bitter Wind, is a memoir of growing up in Maoist China. It was an astonishing coming of age through the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1974).In the wave of revolutionary fervour, peasants neglected their crops, exacerbating the widespread hunger. While ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD