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10 best books like Love in a Fallen City (Eileen Chang): Dream of Ding Village, Rickshaw Boy, The Golden Days, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai, A Dictionary of Maqiao, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, Six Records of a Floating Life, Last Words from Montmartre, Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas

Dream of Ding Village
AuthorYan Lianke
ISBN0802119328
Officially censored upon its Chinese publication, and the subject of a bitter lawsuit between author and publisher, Dream of Ding Village is Chinese novelist Yan Lianke's most important novel to date. Set in a poor village in Henan province, it is a deeply moving and beautifully written account of...
Rickshaw Boy
AuthorLao She
ISBN0061436925
A beautiful new translation of beloved Chinese author Lao She's masterpiece of social realism, about the misadventures of a poor Beijing rickshaw driver

First published in China in 1937, Rickshaw Boy is the story of Xiangzi, an honest and serious country boy who works as a rickshaw puller...
The Golden Days
AuthorXueqin Cao
ISBN0140442936
"The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The first part of the story, The Golden Days, begins the tale of Bao-yu, a gentle young boy who prefers girls to Confucian studies, and his two cousins: Bao-chai, his parents' choice of a wife for him, and the ethereal...
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
AuthorYu Hua
ISBN1400031850
One of the last decade's ten most influential books in China, this internationally acclaimed novel by one of the mainland's most important contemporary writers provides an unflinching portrait of life under Chairman Mao.

A cart-pusher in a silk mill, Xu Sanguan augments his meager salary...
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
AuthorWang Anyi
ISBN0231143427
Set in post-World War II Shanghai, "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow" follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the "longtong," the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods.

Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao seeks...
A Dictionary of Maqiao
AuthorHan Shaogong
ISBN0385339356
From the daring imagination of one of China’s greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originality–the story of a young man “displaced” to a small village in rural China during the 1960s. Told in the format of a dictionary, with a series of vignettes disguised as entries,...
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
AuthorPu Songling
ISBN0140447407
The title, and the fact that this is a Penguin classic, attracted me. I really, really enjoyed this read. The stories were quite short, some only a paragraph in length, and the longest ones being perhaps 4-5 pages. And they were strange indeed, strange is definitely an understatement. They were very...
Six Records of a Floating Life
AuthorShen Fu
ISBN0140444297
Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. In this intimate memoir, Shen Fu recounts the domestic and romantic joys of his marriage...
Last Words from Montmartre
AuthorQiu Miaojin
ISBN1590177258
When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind her unpublished masterpiece, Last Words from Montmartre. Unfolding through a series of letters written by an unnamed narrator, Last Words tells the story of a passionate relationship...
Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas
AuthorSu Tong
ISBN0060596333
The brutal realities of the dark places Su Tong depicts in this collection of novellas set in 1930s provincial China -- worlds of prostitution, poverty, and drug addiction -- belie his prose of stunning and simplebeauty. The title novella, "Raise the Red Lantern," which became a critically acclaimed...
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun
AuthorXun Lu
ISBN0140455485
Lu Xun (1881—1936) is one of the founding figures of modern Chinese literature. His celebrated short stories assemble a powerfully unsettling portrait of the superstition, poverty, and complacence that he perceived in late-imperial China, and in the revolutionary Republic that toppled the...
Village of Stone
AuthorXiaolu Guo
ISBN0099484951
‘’But the Village of Stone- that tiny corner of the sea that, on a map of China, appears as nothing more than a deep blue stain, with no air or shipping routes to link it with anywhere else - still exerts a strange sort of pull on me. Like a recurring dream that appears each and every midnight, or some profound...
Fortress Besieged
AuthorQian Zhongshu
ISBN0811215520
Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, our hapless hero Fang Hung-chien (á la Emma Bovary), with no particular goal in life and with a bogus degree from a fake American university in hand, returns home to Shanghai. On the French liner home, he meets two Chinese beauties, Miss Su and Miss Pao. Qian writes,...
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
AuthorEdith Wharton
ISBN1590172485
A New York Review Books Original

Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops’ nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable...
Peasants and Other Stories
AuthorAnton Chekhov
ISBN0940322145
The ever maturing art and ever more ambitious imaginative reach of Anton Chekhov, one of the world's greatest masters of the short story, led him in his last years to an increasingly profound exploration of the troubled depths of Russian society and life. This powerful and revealing selection from...
My Fantoms
AuthorThéophile Gautier
Romantic provocateur, flamboyant bohemian, precocious novelist, perfect poet—not to mention an inexhaustible journalist, critic, and man-about-town—Théophile Gautier is one of the major figures, and great characters, of French literature.
In My Fantoms Richard Holmes, the celebrated...
The Stories of J.F. Powers
AuthorJ.F. Powers
ISBN0940322226
Hailed by Frank O'Connor as one of "the greatest living storytellers," J. F. Powers, who died in 1999, stands with Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver among the authors who have given the short story an unmistakably American cast. In three slim collections of perfectly crafted stories,...
The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories
AuthorMavis Gallant
ISBN1590173279
A New York Review Books Original
Mavis Gallant is renowned as one of the great short-story writers of our day. This new gathering of long-unavailable or previously uncollected work presents stories from 1951 to 1971 and shows Gallant's progression from precocious virtuosity, to accomplished...
A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories
AuthorRobert Walser
ISBN1590176928
This new collection of more than seventy stories by the iconic modern writer Robert Walser, includes stories that have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, n+1 online, Vice, and elsewhere. Also included is the complete “Fritz Kocher’s Essays,” the “collected works,” so to speak, of a boy...
Memoirs of Hecate County
AuthorEdmund Wilson
ISBN1590170938
Hecate is the Greek goddess of sorcery, and Edmund Wilson's Hecate County is the bewitched center of the American Dream, a sleepy bedroom community where drinks flow endlessly and sexual fantasies fill the air. Memoirs of Hecate County, Wilson's favorite among his many books, is a set of interlinked...
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