Ying Chang Compestine The summer of 1972, before I turned nine, danger began knocking on doors all over China.Nine-year-old Ling has a very happy life. Her parents are both dedicated...

Kevin KwanFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians (the basis for the acclaimed major motion picture) and China Rich Girlfriend, here is the uproarious conclusion to...

Paul TherouxPaul Theroux left Victoria Station on a rainy Saturday in April thinking that taking eight trains across Europe, Eastern Europe, the USSR and Mongolia would be the easy way...

Lisa Brackman American Iraq War veteran Ellie Cooper is living in Beijing when a chance encounter with a Uighur—a member of a Chinese Muslim minority—at the home of her sort-of...

Kim Thuy I came into the world during the Tet Offensive, in the early days of the Year of the Monkey...Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is...

Barbara W TuchmanBarbara W. Tuchman won the Pulitzer Prize for Stilwell & the American Experience in China, 1911-45 in '72. She uses the life of Joseph Stilwell, the military attache...

Any Tan   January 1, 2006 by Harper

Kevin Kwan   THE ICONIC AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON CRAZY RICH ASIANS RETURNS WITH THE GLITTERING TALE OF A YOUNG WOMAN WHO FINDS HERSELF TORN BETWEEN TWO MEN.'Your perfect...

Salman RushdieThe novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie’s phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is “not quite Pakistan.” In...

Wei Hui The gap that divides those of us born in the 1970s and the older generation has never been so wide. Dark and edgy, deliciously naughty, an intoxicating cocktail...

Lisa See A novel about two sisters who leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles. May and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the mid-1930s, are...

Gregory David Roberts   "It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but...