Cheng Naishan captivates her readers with stories about the lives of the Shanghai capitalists who have weathered thirty years of political...

A Perennial Bestseller on Townsfolk Life As Amazing Tales-First Series by Ling Mengchu (l580-l644) made a hit, the publisher urged him to write a...

The eleven stories included here mark Tie Ning's writing career, varying as they do in theme and style, treating youth and age and country and city...

The Travels of Lao Can was written by Liu E, a brilliant intellectual born into a scholarly family at the end of the Qing Dynasty. By describing what...

This collection introduces five short stories by the popular woman writer Chi Li. Set in the large industrial city of Wuhan in Hubei Province, the...

Das chinesische Altertum bietet einen reichen Schatz an humorvollen Erzählungen und Anekdoten. Diese Auswahl wurde als unterhaltsame...

Level: 汉语研究者

The 24 short stories in this collection are a fair sample of earlier short stories in China. Short stories of this kind often involve supernatural...

Level: Advanced    Geoffrey Murray, a scholar at Liverpool University's Pacific Rim Research Center and an expert on China studies, and...

This represents the third cooperation between the two previously published British authors on China-related subjects, following on China's Third...