Tash Aw This is the story of Johnny Lim - textile merchant, petty crook, and inventor of the Amazing Toddy Machine - and his marriage to Snow Soong, the most...

Jeanne Larsen SILK ROAD takes you into the golden age of China's multi-cultural Tang dynasty. Aided by ghosts, goddesses, dragons, and her own determination, the heroine becomes a courtesan, a...

Polly Evans Polly Evans’s itinerary for China was travel by luxurious high-speed train and long-distance bus, glide along the Grand Canal and hike up scenic mountains. Instead, the linguistically impaired...

Aimee Liu In her piercing and pignant fictional debut, Aimee Lee crosses continents and generations, from New York's Chinatown to pre-war Shaghai, to tell a tale of a young woman...

Shan Sa Alexander and Alestria is the imaginative tale of the dramatic love affair between Alexander the Great and Alestria, queen of the Amazons, when both are at the height...

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...

Su Tong  February 1, 2004 by Hyperion

Edward Behr A Candid Biography of One of Twentieth-century China's Most Elusive Figures January 1, 1987 by Futura

John Lanchester John Lanchester's award-winning debut novel is a diabolically clever ode to our love of food, which has at its heart one of the most seductive and sinister characters...

Lian Hearn Grass for His Pillow  is the second book in the  Tales of the Otori  series by Lian Hearn. Don't miss the related  series,  The Tale of Shikanoko.Praised for...

Anchee Min To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a...

Fatima Bhutto How far would you run to escape your life?Anita lives in Karachi's biggest slum. Her mother is a maalish wali, paid to massage the tired bones of rich women....