Books from China
99 popular chinese books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Asia Challenge" were written by authors from China.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Dragon Springs Road : A Novel by Janie Chang EN
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From the author of Three Souls comes a vividly imagined and haunting new novel set in early 20th century Shanghai—a story of friendship, heartbreak, and history that follows a young Eurasian orphan’s search for her long-lost mother. That night I dreamed that I had wandered out to Dragon Springs Road all on my own, when a dreadful knowledge seized me that my mother had gone away never to return . . . In 1908, Jialing is only seven years old when she is abandoned in the courtyard of a once-lavish estate near Shanghai. Jialing is zazhong—Eurasian—and faces a lifetime of contempt from both Chinese... continue
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Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke EN
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A previously banned work based on a true scandal finds an impoverished village targeted by a blood-selling operation that leads to a catastrophic outbreak of AIDS and decimates an entire community.
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Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin EN
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The Chia family experiences a decline in fortune during the Ch'ing dynasty.
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«Si se para a pensarlo —continuó el director—, un genio matemático, alguien que desde la infancia había estado en contacto íntimo con la interpretación de los sueños, un hombre que había estudiado la filosofía china y el pensamiento occidental, y que había explorado las complejidades de la mente humana, era alguien que tenía un don y había nacido para ser criptógrafo.»
Rong Jinzhen es un chico fuera de lo común: educado por un extranjero en la China de los años veinte, viv... continue
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El invisible by Fei Ge ES
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Esta novela breve y contundente, es la primera del aclamado autor chino Ge Fei que se traduce al castellano. El protagonista de El invisible vive en la Beijing contemporánea, donde todo el mundo está ocupado en ascender por la escalera del éxito soportando una carga cada vez mayor de bienes de consumo. Entrado en los cuarenta años, divorciado y sin hijos, vive con su hermana en un departamento en el borde de la ciudad, tratando de mantenerse a flote financiera y emocionalmente en una sociedad fuera de cualquier escala humana. En la segunda mitad de la década ... continue
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English: A Novel by Wang Gang EN
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"I loved this book and can't stop talking about it. . . . Transcendent." —Carolyn See, The Washington Post In the tradition of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Wang Gang's English is a captivating coming-of-age novel about the power of language to launch a journey of self-discovery. When a new teacher—a tall, elegantly dressed man from Shanghai carrying an English dictionary under his arm—comes to Urumqi, the capital of China's far west region of Xinjiang, twelve-year-old Love Liu turns away from Chairman Mao's little red book and toward the teacher's big blue book for answers to his ... continue
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Farewell My Concubine by Lilian Lee EN
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Beginning amid the decadent glamour of China in the 1930s and ending in the 1980s in Hong Kong, this brilliant novel, which formed the basis for the award-winning movie, is the passionate story of an opera student who falls in love with his best friend, and the beautiful woman who comes between them.
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Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang EN
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK · A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE · REVIEWED ON THE FRONT COVER · INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “Zhang’s blend of history and magical realism will appeal to fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer as well as Amy Tan's The Valley of Amazement.” —Booklist (starred review) "Engrossing...Epic" (The New York Times Book Review) · "Transporting" (Washington Post) · "Propulsive" (Oprah Daily) · "Surreal and sprawling" (NPR) · "An absolute must-read" (BuzzFeed) · "Radiant" (BookPage) A dazzling debut novel set against the backdrop of the Chinese Exclusion Act, a... continue
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Ghost Music by An Yu EN
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From the author of the "original and electric" Braised Pork (Time), An Yu's enchanting and contemplative novel of music and mushrooms follows a former concert pianist searching for the truth about a vanished musician For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. She gave up on her own career as a concert pianist many years ago, but her husband Bowen, an executive at a car company, has long rebuffed her pleas to have a child. He resists even when his mother arrives from the southwestern Chinese region of Yunnan ... continue