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        From Beginning of Life

        by Hu Xuewen

        From Beginning of Life is the result of eight years of work by Hu Xuewen, and is considered a panoramic history of life in centuries-old China. It is a story that begins with the beginning of lives. It uses the great grandmother who delivered more than 12,000 people as the backbone, and the beings brought into the world by the great grandmother as the branches and leaves, building a magnificent and vast literary world. Hu Xuewen’s brush reaches into the rituals, morals, bloodlines and localities of vernacular society, and through flesh and blood of his characters, he gives shape to the unnamed “Yuan Qi” at the bottom of national life in a grand picture, and sets the heart of a centuries-old China that has survived and prospered through all the hardships, demonstrating the author’s extraordinary narrative talent.

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        The Making of Pots

        by Xu Feng

        The Making of Pots is an artisanal text recorded, investigated and created over several years by Mr. Xu Feng, a renowned writer, Jiangnan cultural scholar and researcher on Zisha pot culture, and vividly restored by Mr. Ge Taozhong, a disciple of Mr. Gu Jingzhou, to his pot-making skills, and is a duet between a famous writer and a master pot-maker. The book has also been recommended by renowned critics and writers in China, including Li Jingze, Shi Zhanjun, Su Tong and Xie Youshun. By making a pot in the ancient method and explaining it with vivid and beautiful literature, the work comprehensively presents the techniques and heart, spirit and connotation of the ancient Chinese Zisha pot-making method, highlighting the beauty of literature and the beauty of Zisha. This is a book that combines the aesthetic value of literature, the historical value of culture, the academic value of craftsmanship and the value of instruction in the transmission of skills. This book is a review and restoration of the extraordinary skills of the master of Zisha, and a complete presentation of the history, culture, spirit and the highest level of craftsmanship of Zisha, with the paradigm value of mastery and the unique value of historical materials and transmission.

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        Literary Fiction
        October 2018

        Dream

        by Zhang Zhe

        Dream is about the history of national life in China in 1980's. It tells about people's daily life, the senery of Hangzhou, the outdated news and the ways of the world, the change of the families, and by making clear and real notes of a common family in forty years. This is a story about common folk. It gives an account of difficulty, benefits of life, unalternative change and the bright future of life, and also opens splendid world before people. What the book shows us the notes to form agigantic current into the river of people's life. How moved it is to people!

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        Fiction
        October 2018

        Happiness Is Like a Flower

        by Shi Zhongshan

        Du Juan, a female soldier of the Cultural and Art Corps, is obsessed with her dance career. She never believed that happiness would come to her until she received two letters of courtship, which were from two excellent men: the son of the army’s head, Bai Yang and Lin Bin from the cultural Ministry. Du Juan couldn't make a choice at the moment, but she didn't want to give up either of them. She had to try two roads at the same time.What kind of happiness will Du Juan harvest in the pure love atmosphere? Will her happiness bloom like a flower?“Happiness Is Like a Flower” is a masterpiece of the famous screenwriter Shi Zhongshan. It was once adapted into TV series. This book also includes Shi Zhongshan's "Happiness" series of short stories: How Far Is Happiness, The Perfection of Happiness, Happiness Like Flowers and Grass, etc. Most of them have been adapted into popular TV series, affecting the love concept of a generation.

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        Fiction
        October 2018

        Cat

        by Wan Yan

        “Cat” tells the story of editors, writers, poets, painters and other characters in the literary circle. There are editorial department, pen meeting, group draft, and writers’ emotional entanglements. With a profound metaphorical approach, through special literary narratives and humanity observations, the writer jumped out of the world to see the world's sharpness and calmness with the recording of cat's eyes. The ancient cats are metaphors of modernity, and the literary story code at the end of a century. A vain, wandering and shining performance, a kind of chaos of illusion and reality, life and death. An editor-in-chief named "Feng Niang" and a deputy editor-in-chief called "Old Deng" were intentionally or unintentionally involved in the whirlpool of the literary world. These emotional, ideal, earthly, spiritual, and life vortexes are mixed in literature.

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        Fiction
        October 2018

        Broken Bridge,Remnant Snow

        by Wang Xufeng

        “Ten Scenes in West Lake” is the work of Wang Xufeng, the famous writer and Mao Dun Literature Award winner, in the background of Hangzhou West Lake. It is a collection of novellas with the historical " Ten Scenes in West Lake " as the starting point. The ten novellas  are independent stories ,and are also connected to each other, forming a series of books that are saturated with the charm of Jiangnan. The book Broken Bridge,Remnant Snow is one of the novellas. The author uses the broken bridge scenic spots in the West Lake to tell the readers stories among the old man Xu Xuan and Xiao Bai, Xiao Qing and Master Hai. In the misty and rainy West Lake, a piece of past events begins.

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        Fiction
        October 2018

        Viewing Fish at Flower Harbor

        by Wang Xufeng

        “Ten Scenes in West Lake” is the work of Wang Xufeng, the famous writer and Mao Dun Literature Award winner, in the background of Hangzhou West Lake. It is a collection of novellas with the historical " Ten Scenes in West Lake " as the starting point. The ten novellas are independent stories and are also connected to each other, forming a series of books that are saturated with the charm of Jiangnan. The book Viewing Fish at Flower Harbor is one of the novels. The author uses goldfish as a clue to tell the love between "I" and childhood playmates and the friendship with classmates Mao Feng etc. There is not only the youth smelling of the school age, but also the sentimental feeling of stepping into the changeable society. Once pure feeling became disfigured by money, drugs, hence pond water and that goldfish no longer exist.

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        Fiction
        October 2018

        The Dim Moonlight

        by Zhang Guangtian

        Born in Shanghai, the pianist Tu Junsheng, from the boyhood, first fell into the "sacred and classic" love dilemma, and then turned to marriage and failed. He became desperate in a free and lonely love later. Finally he wake up, see the light in pain. The author wrote the first love, the loss of love, the betrayal, the obsession with love…and there is no trace of carving in writing. This is a wonderful book about the ultimate experience of spirit and body. It is a thrilling love epic.

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        Fiction
        October 2018

        Sunset on the Leifeng Pagoda

        by Wang Xufeng

        “Ten Scenes in West Lake” is the work of Wang Xufeng, the famous writer and Mao Dun Literature Award winner, in the background of Hangzhou West Lake. It is a collection of novellas with the historical " Ten Scenes in West Lake " as the starting point. The ten novellas are independent stories and are also connected to each other, forming a series of books that are saturated with the charm of Jiangnan. The book Sunset on the Leifeng Pagoda is one of the novellas. It tells the whole life of Fan Yuanying, Liu Xuexun’s eighth wife. This story has two versions: historical legend and faith history. The text structure of Sunset on the Leifeng Pagoda is the most unique and exploratory. The novel shows the charm of narrative art in the rhythm of tension and relaxation.

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        Transcendence

        by Shi Shuqing

        This novel tells two stories of an ancient Chinese monk and a modern young lady. With elegant narration, the author discusses love, lust, and Buddhism. Crossing the time of 1500 years, the fate of protagonists interweaved in Nanjing, the city of Buddhism.

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        Fiction
        August 2018

        The Language of Go Chess

        by Chu Fujin

        This is a story about Chinese Go chess.The protagonist Xiao Wang lives in the North Lane. Go chess connects his life with other chess players such as Jiang Chong, Liu Yun, Tao Song, Chen Xiaodong and Chang Shuo. Through this novel, we see the modern life, the modern psychology and the modern society of China.

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        Fiction
        July 2018

        Life Show

        by Chi Li

        This is a short story collection written by one of the best female Chinese writers Chi Li, who chooses five of her representative stories that happens in Wuhan city. The author is famous for her description of ordinary Chinese citizens from female perspective. Her works have been favored by many readers in and out of China.

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        Fiction
        January 2016

        Hall of Mirrors

        by Chen Qian

        In this novel, a series of mirrors has been used by the author as a tool to reflect daily life of ethnic Chinese scientists in Silicon Valley. Behind the marvelous high-tech products and glory of scientific workers, there are deep anxiety and bewilderment.

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        Fiction
        January 2016

        The Autumn of Innocence

        by Abbas Beydoun

        In his novel, The Autumn of Innocence, prominent Lebanese poet and novelist Abbas Beydoun artfully weaves a tragic story of a father-son relationship that ends disastrously with the son's violent death. This story unfolds along with the Arab Spring movement and explores the motivations behind religious extremism and questions cultural constructs of masculinity.   The novel opens with a letter from Ghassan to his cousin, describing how his father Massoud strangled his mother to death when Ghassan was just three years old. Afterward, Massoud flees the village in southern Lebanon. For 18 years, no one hears from him, and Ghassan grows up stigmatized by his father's violent crime.   In time, Ghassan's aunt Bushra-Massoud's sister-makes a confession: She encouraged Massoud to kill his wife, believing that his wife's low socioeconomic status would bring embarrassment to their wealthy family. Bushra also reveals that Massoud was driven to kill his wife because he feared that she would tell someone that he was impotent, undermining his sense of manhood and social status.   Meanwhile, Massoud has moved to southern Syria, where he remarried and had two more sons. During the Arab Spring, the militant groups fighting the Syrian regime transform him into a religious extremist.   In the second half of the novel, Massoud return to the village in southern Lebanon. He brings with him a group of men. Together they seize control of the village and terrorize its inhabitants. After killing the dogs, they begin murdering the villagers in the name of religion. One of Ghassan's friends is among the victims, and Massoud also threatens his family. Ghassan decides that he must kill his father, avenging the death of his friend and the deaths of the other villagers. In the end, he fails and is beheaded by Bushra's son, his cousin, who is has joined Massoud's thugs.   Beydoun captures the shifting points of view in a family shattered by the tyranny of normative masculinity and the resulting violence. The victims are women, of course, but also the men like Ghassan who reject these social and cultural expectations. The novel also portrays the rise of religious extremism and the terrorism it can inspire, which wreaks havoc on the lives of ordinary people. Beydoun's engaging language imbues the characters and the places they inhabit with a vibrancy and vitality that transcends the difficult subject matter.

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        Fiction
        2017

        Remorse Test

        by Khalil Sweileh

        Remorse Test is Sweileh’s follow up to his novel Writing Love, which was the 2009 winner of The Mahfouz Medal for Literature. This semi-autobiographical novel, takes readers through the streets of Damascus and offers a first-hand look at life and loss during the Syrian civil war. The protagonist is a brilliant writer who is navigating a new, war-torn reality. While reminiscing about his past, he shows us what everyday life is like in Damascus—at once brutal and boring—and laments the missed opportunities and destruction the conflict has caused in his country. Drawing on his experience as a journalist, poet and novelist, author Khalil Sweileh writes about the psychological conflicts amid the shattered reality of place and society using language that is full of imagery. Remorse Test is an important addition to Syrian literature, both for its subject matter and unique use of narrative tools and vocabulary. (An extended English-language report on this book will be available soon.)

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        Fiction
        2017

        Summer Rains

        Winner of the 2018 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Young Author

        by Ahmad Al Qarmalawi

        Using music as a thread that connects the past to the present, this novel explores what happens when traditional and cultural heritage clash with modernity. The characters face the impact of modernization on heritage and arts versus the need to protect and preserve their traditional culture and must choose between the pursuit of materialism versus spiritual balance. Al Qarmalawi writes about a wide range of music from Sufism to the present era of electronic musical arts, and Summer Rains addresses the current Arab youth crisis, in which young people find themselves torn between fundamentalism and modernity. (An extended English-language report on this book will be available soon.)

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        April 2016

        Bronze and Sunflower

        by Cao Wenxuan

        A beautifully written, timeless tale by bestselling author, Cao Wenxuan, the 2016 recipient of the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award.   When Sunflower, a young city girl, moves to the countryside, she grows to love the reed marsh lands - the endlessly flowing river, the friendly buffalo with their strong backs and shiny round heads, the sky that stretches on and on in its vastness. However, the days are long, and the little girl is lonely. Then she meets Bronze, who, unable to speak, is ostracized by the other village boys. Soon the pair are inseparable, and when Bronze's family agree to take Sunflower in, it seems that fate has brought him the sister he has always longed for. But life in Damaidi is hard, and Bronze's family can barely afford to feed themselves. Will the city girl be able to stay in this place where she has finally found happiness?   A classic, heartwarming tale set to the backdrop of the Chinese cultural revolution.

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