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New York. 1988. August 1988. Norton. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0393025861. Translated from the Chinese by Martha Avery. 285 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Lizzy Rockwell/Kenneth Alcorn. keywords: Literature China Asia. FROM THE PUBLISHER - As the Cultural Revolution rages, a gulag of labor camps in China's remote, harshly beautiful countryside teaches ‘capitalist roaders' and criminals alike ‘reform through labor.' There Zhang, a ‘rightist' poet, meets and (alls in love with Huang, a beautiful peasant woman jailed for promiscuity. In the jargon of the time, they are a ‘calamity couple,' and their relationship becomes the lens through which we see, and feel, the warping effects of the Cultural Revolution on ordinary people. Separated for years, the lovers reunite in another outpost of the gulag. But for the poet Zhang, years of imprisonment and forced labor have meant a loss of self: he is impotent, he cannot write. Words, like human… Read More

New York. 2004. Soho Press. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781569473962. 310 pages. paperback. keywords: Mystery China Shanghai. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is taking some time off because he has been made an offer he can't refuse by a triad-connected businessman. For what seems to be a fortune-with no apparent strings attached-he has been asked to translate into English a business proposal for the construction in central Shanghai of a complex to be called the New World. It will consist of shops, restaurants and residential buildings that will evoke nostalgia for ‘the glitter and glamour' of the thirties. At first, Chen can hardly believe that such a thing can be erected in Communist China, but he comes to understand that this is exactly what the new middle class wants. When the murder of a woman is reported to the police while his boss is on vacation, Sergeant Yu is forced to take charge of the investigation. The victim,… Read More

New York. 2006. St Martin’s/Minotaur. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780312374662. 307 pages. paperback. keywords: Mystery China Shanghai. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is assigned a high-profile anticorruption case, one in which the principal figure, Xing, has long since fled to the United States and beyond the reach of the Chinese government. But Xing left behind his organization, and Chen, while assigned to root out the coconspirators, is not sure whether he's actually being set up to fail. In a twisting case that takes him from Shanghai all the way to the United States, reuniting him with his colleague and counterpart from the U.S. Marshals Service, Inspector Catherine Rhon, Chen finds himself at odds with hidden, powerful, and vicious enemies. At once a compelling crime novel and an insightful, moving portrayal of contemporary China, A Case of Two Cities is the finest novel yet in this critically acclaimed, award-winning… Read More

New York. 2002. Soho Press. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781569473412. 351 pages. paperback. keywords: Mystery China Shanghai. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Inspector Chen's mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort U.S. Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important criminal trial, to the United States. Inspector Rohn is already en route when Chen learns that Wen has unaccountably vanished from her village in Fujian. Or is this just what he is supposed to believe? Chen resents his role; he would rather investigate the triad killing in Shanghai's beauteous Bund Park. But his boss insists that saving face with Inspector Rohn has priority. So Chen Cao, the ambitious son of a father who imbued him with Confucian precepts, must tread warily as he tries once again to be a good cop, a good man, and also a loyal Party member. inventory #40956 ISBN: 9781569473412.

New York. 2002. Soho Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 1569473013. 351 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Pauline Neuwirth. keywords: Mystery China Shanghai. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Inspector Chen's mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort U.S. Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important criminal trial, to the United States. Inspector Rohn is already en route when Chen learns that Wen has unaccountably vanished from her village in Fujian. Or is this just what he is supposed to believe? Chen resents his role; he would rather investigate the triad killing in Shanghai's beauteous Bund Park. But his boss insists that saving face with Inspector Rohn has priority. So Chen Cao, the ambitious son of a father who imbued him with Confucian precepts, must tread warily as he tries once again to be a good cop, a good man, and also a loyal Party member. inventory #32777 ISBN: 1569473013.

New York. 2000. Soho Press. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781569472422. 465 pages. paperback. keywords: Mystery China Shanghai Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Contemporary Shanghai comes vividly to life in this new mystery series. Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police must find the murderer of a National Model Worker, and then risk his own life and career to see that justice is done. inventory #41633 ISBN: 9781569472422.

Columbia. 1988. Readers International. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Worn Dustjacket With Some Tears. 0930523423. Translated from the Portuguese by Annella McDermott. Introduction by Antonio Jacinto. 158 pages. hardcover. Cover art by the Angolan artist, Francisco D. Van-Dunen - 'Carnaval I'. keywords: Literature Angola Africa Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - An ambassador of the government of Angola in Europe, Xitu conceived these stories while imprisoned in a Portuguese jail. Set in the 1940s, the tales in this book are divided into three sections: ‘Mestre' Tamoda' introduces us to the prolix Tamoda, who refers to a toothpick as a ‘wooden dental probe.' In ‘The Village,' Tamoda displays his ‘verbal dexterosity' at a funeral and a soccer match. ‘The Town the best in the collection centers on Maraja, a black tennis coach, and Arlete Pinto, the daughter of Portuguese parents. Social climbers, the Pintos are scandalized by their daughter's… Read More