Melbourne, Australia: Viking, 2014. Paperback. Originally published in Chinese as Tui Na by People's Literature Publishing House. Wang Daifu is blind and works as a practitioner of tuina, a traditional form of pressure-point massage, in the burgeoning metropolis of Shenzhen. His is a uniquely coveted skill, yet it..... More
United Kingdom: Penguin Books, 2015. China Library series. Paperback. Originally published in Chinese as Xue Zhi Zui by Renmin University Press, Beijing. Set in the mid-nineties, Hanging Devils is a true-to-life story of cold-blooded murder and corruption from one of China's foremost legal experts. Hong Jun, a...... More
United Kingdom: Penguin Books, 2015. Paperback. During China's collectivist era in the late 1950s, a rural work team responsible for building an important floodgate receives a strange new recruit: Hei-hai, a skinny, silent and almost feral boy. Assigned to assist the blacksmith at the worksite forge, Hei-hai proves superhumanly indifferent..... More
United Kingdom: Viking / Penguin Books, 2018. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. At first glance, the Li family looks like any other: one grumpy grandfather, two overworked parents, four siblings, and one small house for them all to live in. Still, with a journalist in the mix, its members can..... More
Australia: Penguin Group Australia, 2018. First paperback edition by Penguin Group (Australia). First Printing. Paperback. Part of the Penguin China Specials series. Translated from the original Chinese by Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz. China, early 1950s: Two friends find themselves on their way to a re-education camp for..... More
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