Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
10 best books like Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Pu Songling): The Peony Pavilion: Mudan ting, The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Vol. One: The Gathering, The Golden Days, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai, A Dictionary of Maqiao, Half of Man Is Woman, The Death of Woman Wang, Six Records of a Floating Life, The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun, Fortress Besieged
The Peony Pavilion: Mudan ting
| Author | Tang Xianzu |
| ISBN | 0253215277 |
The celebrated English translation of this classic work of Chinese literature is now available in an updated paperback edition. Written in 1598 by Tang Xianzu, The Peony Pavilion is one of literature's most memorable love stories and a masterpiece of Ming drama. It's heroine, Bridal Du, is a cloistered...
| Author | Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng |
| ISBN | 0691016143 |
This first of five planned volumes begins David Roy's long-awaited complete and annotated translation of an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel, the famous Chin P'ing Mei. A work known primarily for its erotic realism, the Chin P'ing Mei is also a landmark in the development of narrative art...
| Author | Xueqin Cao |
| ISBN | 0140442936 |
"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...
| Author | Wang Anyi |
| ISBN | 0231143427 |
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...
| Author | Han Shaogong |
| ISBN | 0385339356 |
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,...
| Author | Zhang Xianliang |
| ISBN | 0393025861 |
Poet Zhang Yonglin is sentenced to a labor camp he ironically describes as a haven amidst the hysteria of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. After he marries a woman he had seen eight years earlier, the story becomes, on one level, an analogy between his temporary sexual impotence and the position of intellectuals....
Drawing on local Chinese histories, the memoirs of scholars, and other contemporary writings, Chinese historian Jonathan Spence reconstructs an extraordinary tale of rural tragedy in a remote corner of Shantung province in 17th-century China. Life in the county of T'an-ch'eng emerges as an endless...
Six Records of a Floating Life
| Author | Shen Fu |
| ISBN | 0140444297 |
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...
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun
| Author | Xun Lu |
| ISBN | 0140455485 |
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...
| Author | Qian Zhongshu |
| ISBN | 0811215520 |
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,...
| Author | Shi Nai'an |
| ISBN | 7119016628 |
China's great classic novel Outlaws of the Marsh, written in the fourteenth century, is a fictional account of twelfth-century events during the Song Dynasty. One by one, over a hundred men and women are forced by the harsh feudal officialdom to take to the hills. They band together and defeat every...
| Author | Kong Shangren |
| ISBN | 1590178769 |
A tale of battling armies, political intrigue, star-crossed romance, and historical cataclysm, The Peach Blossom Fan is one of the masterpieces of Chinese literature, a vast dramatic composition that combines the range and depth of a great novel with the swift intensity of film.
In the mid-1640s,...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0140447199 |
This major source of Chinese mythology (third century BC to second century AD) contains a treasure trove of rare data and colorful fiction about the mythical figures, rituals, medicine, natural history, and ethnic peoples of the ancient world.
The Classic of Mountains and Seas explores 204 mythical...
| Author | Li Yu |
| ISBN | 0824817982 |
Timeless lessons to be learnt from this seventeenth century chinese erotic novel operating within a Buddhist framework featuring a scholar whose desire for a more fabulous sex life leads him to have a dog's penis spliced into his own, numerous women of various social classes, aggrieved husbands,...
| Author | Wu Jingzi |
| ISBN | 7119012134 |
A masterpiece from the Ming dynasty, Wu Ching-tzu's The Scholars ranks with Dream of the Red Chamber, Journey to the West, and the Water Margin as one of the greatest classic novels of China. The Scholars is the first Chinese novel of its scope not to borrow any characters from history or legend and it is...
Lust, Caution and Other Stories
| Author | Eileen Chang |
| ISBN | 0141034386 |
In 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high-society ladies. But China es occupied by invading Japanese forces, and in wartime things are not always what they seem.
Jiazhi's life is a front. A patriotic student radical, her mission...
| Author | Lin Yutang |
| ISBN | 1406724459 |
In this atmosphere of change, the present intellectual youth of China has grown up. Where the fathers imbibed the doctrine of Confucius and learned the classics and revolted against them, these young people have been battered by many forces of the new times. They have been taught something of science,...
