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Collecting two decades of remembrances from China's premier literary caricaturist, these short stories offer bite-sized misdeeds committed by Nanjing's underground literati. Freed from family duties, the "boys" spend their nights freewheeling and trying their luck with pretty girls amid a haze of cigarette smoke and cheap beer. However, as the evening drags on, trouble brews and dates turn sour. Their only real solace is an unspoken camaraderie. After the tales of cruel pranks, cramped apartments, sleazy karaoke bars and dead cats, maybe the joke will be on them - but for now, the night has only just begun.

The Sisterhood meets every morning in Hai Ruo's teashop to discuss life, love, careers and everything that gets in the way of happiness. Hai Ruo strives to keep the sisterhood together and seeks spiritual intervention to provide answers, but the cracks grow wider as pressure closes in.

At a turning point in the Chinese Civil War, a secret codebreaking unit led by Chief Zeng is key to the Red Army's survival. In a tense and fast-paced account, they must fight to save their comrades from enemy crosshairs. Their mission is critical when each message deciphered could save lives. In the present, can Dr He bring their stories to light?

For generations, Wang Changchi's family have dreamed of escaping their poverty-stricken village. When a twist of fate takes his chance away, he joins the hordes of illegal migrant workers risking their lives for a shot at city life. Still hoping for a reversal of fortune, will he risk it all for one more chance to bring success to his family?

When rumours spread of corruption, Mayor Li Gaocheng is determined to find the truth. However, a lifetime of steadfast service leaves him ill-equipped for this new China where there is nothing that money can't buy. As the web of deceit unravels, he must choose whether to investigate just how deep it goes - even if what he finds hits close to home.

A collection of four short stories on the brutal realities of family life in modern China. When a household crumbles, it's always the women who are left picking up the pieces, but no one comes out looking good when caught in a vicious cycle of abuse. Come inside at your peril: after all, what's a closet without its skeletons?

Midnight Stories collects ten tales of small-town life with a macabre twist, including a business scheme involving a Madonna lookalike, a disastrous roof repair job, and bloody murder over a missold watermelon. Through a darkly comic lens, Su Tong interweaves cruelty and kindness in a characteristically surreal mode both nightmarish and lyrical.

One Day Three Autumns was written to preserve the memory of the author's sixth uncle, a talented artist whose paintings were tragically burned after his death. It attempts to bring them back to life in writing, proving that those we love are never truly gone, and that a home is more than what we choose to fill it with.

*Missives from the Masses *opens award-winning author Su Tong's newest selection of short stories. From Qianmei, the only one in the dark about her terminal cancer, to the unloved undertaker with seemingly cursed hands, this collection presents darkly humorous and strange accounts of hidden lives eked out during China's turbulent economic rise.

1985 France, David Zhang's disappearance prompts his half-Chinese daughter, Anne, to delve into his history within the Chinese Labour Corps. Exploring the lives of 140,000 men who worked behind the scenes in the Great War, Anne's answers lingering childhood questions, revealing the weight of war's trauma and a past fraught with regret.

Fu Ying unveils Chinese government press dynamics, shedding light behind closed-door goings-on in the senior ranks of the government. Explore Chinese officials‿ media engagement and follow her time in the UK, breaking cultural barriers and embracing press culture to challenge stereotypical narratives.

The crisis in Peking continues as the Communists circle the city. Battered Nationalist forces find themselves in an endless race with corruption. With Cui Zongshi dead, Liang Jinglun and Fang Buting try to prop up a crumbling economy, while Fang Meng'ao transports important cargo to Tianjin. Plans must be made as the fighting draws to a close.

Beginning in the Cultural Revolution, The Enemies of Art describes the lives of three friends who dream of artistic pursuit. However, when freedom finally comes in the Reform period, they find their ideals challenged by the lure of money. As these rapid changes occur, they learn to reconcile with each other, their pasts and the future.

In 2021, the Communist Party of China turns 100. Since its birth, the party and its leaders have overcome an array of existential challenges. This edition is the latest in a series last translated to English in 1994. It offers readers the CPC's official account of its own history - a narrative key to understanding China in the 21st century.

One Day Three Autumns was written to preserve the memory of the author's sixth uncle, a talented artist whose paintings were tragically burned after his death. It attempts to bring them back to life in writing, proving that those we love are never truly gone, and that a home is more than what we choose to fill it with.

In 1926, the walled city of Wuchang, now part of modern-day Wuhan, lay under siege for forty days, and the human cost was devastating. Fang Fang's riveting novel is based on the true story of this cruel battle.

Renowned artist Han Meilin gives an oral history of the harrowing events that turn his life and fledgling artistic career upside down during the unforgiving times of China's Cultural Revolution.

Fang Meng'ao's mission to better Peking attracts Inspector General Zeng Keda, who hunts communists. In a city of treachery, desperate measures barely cover societal fractures. Yang Jinglun leads student protests for the accused. With civil war raging, Fang must avoid Zeng's watchful eye and the traps set throughout the city.

Amid a desolate landscape, Qi Jing's Communist 9th Brigade face a near-impossible mission set to bring the Chinese Civil War to its final chapter. As the campaign splinters and fighting devolves, those stranded within the labyrinth of caves face wretched conditions and unbearable loss in an attempt to find their way out of this war.

As the only female village chief in the province, the pressure to succeed politically and personally on Kong Fanhua is enormous. Amid a crackdown on the controversial one-child policy, a pregnant runaway triggers a series of bizarre and seemingly intractable problems for Fanhua to solve involving ghosts, camels, Americans and more.

Following Hai Ruo, the owner of the teashop, and her sisterhood of a dozen friends. Plagued by unhappy relationships with men and their struggles with business and politics.

Li Delin and Liu Jinding are determined to leave China‿s Central Plain behind. Li‿s honest talent and hard graft bring him to power and Liu a sprawling business empire. Their success is not sustainable and they are exploited and betrayed by former confidants. Li‿s career is soon enveloped in corruption and tragedy. Attempts at resolution become the fight of his life.

The empire is in mortal danger. Hai Rui and his allies bought her time, but now it is spent. Addled by mercury and aided by sycophants, Emperor Jiajing is squandering the last remnants of the treasury. Now it is time to rescue the once-mighty Ming or join in the plunder as it descends in flames to a hell of no return.

The fate of the Ming hangs on a knife edge. In the south, imperial forces make a desperate last stand against pirate raiders. Nearby, magistrate Hai Rui investigates massive corruption. In Beijing, the chief eunuch is forced to choose sides when a chance to oust Yan Song arises. China‿s heroes must make their move. If they fail‿ everything burns.

In The Sons of Red Lake, Zhou Daxin tells the story of an ambitious young woman who refuses to accept the constraints of life determined by the village she comes from.