Penguin Group Australia, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. Signed by author on title page. Penguin Specials: The Inaugural Hong Kong Series. From the turbulent 1960s until today, Hong Kong has been a city shaped by civil disobedience. The latest wave of protests in Hong Kong’s long history of public dissent culminated..... More
Melbourne, Australia: Viking, 2014. Paperback. FREE DOMESTIC SHIPPING ON ALL PENGUIN CHINA TITLES. 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..... More
United Kingdom: Penguin Books, 2015. China Library series. Paperback. FREE DOMESTIC SHIPPING ON ALL PENGUIN CHINA TITLES. 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..... 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
Penguin Group Australia, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. Penguin Specials: The Inaugural Hong Kong Series. Xu Xi’s body of work witnesses her turbulent love affair with her home-city of Hong Kong. In this probing memoir, she unravels her recently finalised decision to leave the city for good. She critiques a Hong..... More
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