Roma TearneLondon. On a bright July morning a series of bombs bring the capital to a halt. Simon Swann, a medic from one of the large teaching hospitals, is searching...

Kamila Shamsie Beginning on August 9, 1945, in Nagasaki, and ending in a prison cell in the United States in 2002, as a man is waiting to be sent to...

Asako Yuzuki The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story.There are two things...

Gao XingjianFrom China's first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature comes an exquisite new book of fictions, none of which has ever been published before in English. A young...

Gus Lee Kai Ting is the only American-born son of an aristocratic Mandarin family that has fled China in the wake of Mao's revolution. Woefully unprepared for life on the...

William Arnold

Wang Keping Concise essays by a leading philosopher on Chinese views of harmony, love, enlightenment, life and death, etc. January 27, 2006 by Foreign Languages Press

Ruth Benedict A recognized classic of cultural anthropology, this book explores the political, religious, and economic life of Japan from the seventh century through the mid-twentieth, as well as personal...

Robert B Oxnam An ornamental Chinese lacquer box is the key to a priceless art collection hidden for a century in this rich and complex narrative of Chinese history, culture,...

William Dalrymple As the author of the best travel book of recent years at the intensely irritating age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple has now shown that In Xanadu was no fluke. City of...

Dominique Lapierre Except for walking on the moon, spending time in the City of Joy is the most fascinating experience a man can have at the end of the twentieth...

Jay Stevenson, PhD You’re no idiot, of course. You know Eastern philosophy encompasses many countries and concepts, but when it comes to breaking down the basics—to discuss with others or...