Those Years I Served My Sentence
Da Wan Mianpi
Qidian · 2014
Qin Han, having completed his sentence, gets caught up in a robbery case while collecting gambling debts for someone and is criminally detained and se…
Letters of Lu Xun
Lu Xun
This is primary source material for studying Lu Xun and the cultural ecology of the Republican era, suited to literary scholars, history enthusiasts, …
Living on the Moon
Bu Feng
Siyuetian Fiction Network
The title comes from a picture of a lunar home that the author's junior-high physics teacher once described in class, carrying the author's boyhood dr…
People of a Great Nation
Piaodang Moerben
Qidian
A very short work of realistic fiction, its strength is restraint: a call that rings three times draws out old feelings, then links personal concern t…
Old Zhang Tou 2021
Qinghe Xiansheng Nong Yi Ji Ya
Qidian · 2021
This is a collection of critical realist short stories centered on the character Old Zhang. A retired intellectual, Old Zhang enjoys basking in the su…
My Diamond Life
Xiao Fei
Tsinghua University Press · 2013
Based on the author Xiaofei's own experience, this book tells how the protagonist rises from a poor mountain village, endures drifting and setbacks, a…
Tide upon Tide
Lin Er Xiansheng
Tide upon Tide follows the fate of several generations of the Tang family across roughly sixty years. It opens with the village life and schooling at …
Memories Long Buried
Xuan Shi Xing Zhe
This book is a memoir-style work. The author begins with his birth in 1990 and recounts his childhood in a mountain valley in rural northwest China: t…
Selected Stories of Shi Zhongshan
Shi Zhongshan
TIANDI PRESS · 2017
This book is a self-selected collection of novellas and short stories by military writer Shi Zhongshan, opening with 'Years of Passion (Father Enters …
Heaven Falls, Tears Flow
Piao Wuzong
The novel, narrated in first person, tells how "my" peaceful life is shattered by a phone call: my father, working far away in Zhejiang, has been diag…
Love on the Keyboard
Yibaibu Ban Jiushi
Huaben Novel
The story begins on the last day of 1999, with the author recalling, in first person, online romances around the turn of the millennium. Back then, di…
The Story of Life on a Warship
Mao Sanbai
The protagonist is a 200-jin fat man who, in 2012, is secretly signed up by his father for the direct-entry non-commissioned officer program and stumb…
Song of Growth
Yuan He
This is a collection of novellas, short stories, and older pieces rather than a continuous novel. It opens with lyrics written between 1981 and 1987, …
Dongguan Factory Girl: A Flower Adrift
Fang Yiluo
The novel unfolds through the first-person narration of Yang Haiyan, a young woman from rural Sichuan. At nineteen, she is admitted to university, but…
Childhood Memories
Zhou Weiguo's Childhood
A child's-eye recollection of everyday life in the alleyways of Shanghai in the mid-1960s. The protagonist, A Wei, together with childhood friends De …
The Hunter and the Cavalryman
Krasotkin
Qidian
Ke Peiwei, a seventh-grader at Jiangyuan No. 1 Middle School, is slow and withdrawn, shutting himself off after the death of his younger brother Ke Pe…
The Complete Works of Ding Ling (4)
Ding Ling
Hebei People's Publishing House · 2001
This volume is the fourth volume of The Complete Works of Ding Ling, collecting Ding Ling's short stories, poetry, and plays. It opens with "Yang Ma's…
The Quick Gun
Shi Zhongshan
Qunzhong Publishing House · 2001
This collection contains six short stories: "The Quick Gun," "The Guandong Escort Agency," "Cross Gambling," "Guandong Women," "The Performer," and "W…
Beacon Smoke over Beiping
Du Liang
Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2006
Set against the backdrop of Beiping from the War of Resistance against Japan through the Liberation War, the novel unfolds the covert rivalry among fo…
The Chronicles of Zisai
Mafan Da Le
Set in Zisai, a small town in Hebei, in the early 1980s, the novel follows sixteen-year-old Wang Ru as he begins high school at Zisai No. 2 Middle Sch…