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Lunch with the Masters
Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026
Lunch with the Master is the latest collection of short stories and novellas by the acclaimed writer Zhu Wenying. It brings together ten pieces, inclu…
My Friend Don Quixote: Selected Stories by Xu Zechen (English)
· 2026
This self-selected collection of Xu Zechen's fiction brings together novellas and short stories he has published in major Chinese literary journals in…
The Overcoat
Shaanxi Normal University Press · 2026
Akaky is a lowly clerk, mocked by all, shabbily dressed and living a frugal life. Winter arrives, and by pinching and scraping he finally buys a new o…
Those Things About Masuernot
· 2026
A collection of novellas by Wu Yanzhong, whose five works—including "The Matters of Masurnot" and "Donkey Matters"—sketch a vivid panorama of life at …
A Book to Understand I Am Not Pan Jinlian
· 2025
Taking Liu Zhenyun's novel I Am Not Pan Jinlian as its subject, this book reveals how this masterpiece of absurdist realism uses a "fake divorce" as a…
If There Is No Tomorrow: I Am Yu Huanshui
Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025
The original novel behind the hit streaming series *If There Is No Tomorrow*, starring Guo Jingfei. Adapted into a stage play of the same name that ha…
Pingcheng Chronicles
· 2025
*City of Fog*: Unemployed and on the verge of not making it, I suddenly recalled a priceless stamp I had once handled at a pawnshop—my last chance to …
Red Sun: A Federation of Literary and Art Circles Trilogy (Complete 3 Volumes)
Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025
"Approval for Reimbursement" uses the work of the literary federation as its thread, reflecting a broad span of social life; "Scrapping" is about trad…
Yu Hua: Collected Novellas and Short Stories (5 Volumes)
Dook Media Group Limited · 2025
Severe mental exhaustion? You must read Yu Hua! Includes Yu Hua's representative novellas and short stories: *On the Road at Eighteen*, *The Mistake b…
April Wind (Volume III)
Shenyang Publishing House · 2025
April brings lush grass and flying birds—and rumors rise with it. A process of hearsay passed along like a drumbeat relay turns matters strange and ab…
April Wind (Volume I)
Shenyang Publishing House · 2025
April brings lush grass and darting birds, and with April come rumors. A process of misinformation spreading like pass-the-parcel blows things up into…
April Wind (Volume II)
Shenyang Publishing House · 2025
In April, grass grows and birds fly; rumors rise with April. A process of misinformation passing from mouth to mouth, like a game of passing the parce…
April Wind: New Century Literature Publishing Project Series on Respecting the Elderly and Supporting the Young
Shenyang Publishing House · 2025
In April, grass grows and warblers fly, and rumors rise with the April wind. A process of passing errors from mouth to mouth, like a game of drum-and-…
A Lamb Boiled in Goat's Milk
Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2025
How does a mediocrity get packaged overnight into a literary star? A literary farce that lays bare society's absurdities A landmark novel by Russia's …
Smoke City
Chunfeng Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025
Yancheng is writer Can Xue's latest original collection of short stories and novellas, published in 2023, comprising eleven works. Probing the minutia…
Whose Heart Is Not Full of Scars
Fujian Straits Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024
A driver who sneaks into a zoo at night to set the animals free; a fantasy of love for Ya rising from a crumpled newspaper; a girl, Tian Jia, who beco…
Dostoevsky and the Desert
Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024
This collection brings together four novellas by Lu Yiping: In Search of the Road Home, Jishui Is a Nameless River, Blue Soldier, and The Traces of Li…
The Idealist
Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024
This is the life monologue of a woman born in the Daliang Mountains—a story of growth, hardship, departure and return, of deep love and resentment, jo…
Mutation
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2022
Lawyer Ramón Martínez has a successful career, is a devoted family man of traditional values, and a staunch atheist. Then he undergoes surgery, loses …
See You Up There Trilogy (3 Volumes)
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2021
"The Great Swindle": A wild, exquisitely beautiful revenge, mocking a cruel and absurd world. Who would have thought that the moment of victory in war…