Annotation A classic of modern world literature, this collection of stories provides a vivid eyewitness view of everyday life in China during the Cultural Revol

Eight stories displaying anger, melancholy, and satire reflect the dissident literature of contemporary China and the reality of life during and after the Cultu

Brings together some of the best and most historically significant works of short fiction written in China in this century -including such important figures in

When Mao and the Chinese Communist Party won power in 1949, they were determined to create new, revolutionary human beings. Their most precise instrument of ide

In this accessible new study, Toby Lincoln offers the first history of Chinese cities from their origins to the present. Despite being an agricultural society f