China Fiction

Triads and Turbulence: Once Upon a Time in Northeastern China is an epic tale of conflict, royalties, and love set against the backdrop of an industrial wasteland populated by gangsters and outlaws in Northeastern China. This highly acclaimed novel is a tetralogy inspired by true events, from bloody gangster conflicts to industrial city outcasts, amid Communist China’s rapid development following Deng Xiao Ping’s economic reforms in the 1980s. It is also a story of marginalized individuals entangled in the changing fabrics of the society they live in.

In the 1970s, Peter Maas stunned the American public with Serpico. Now this best-selling author has created a brilliant fictional thriller that uncovers a new underworld of international crime—ruled by the Chinese. Y.K. Deng, the ruthless mastermind of an international heroin ring, is poised to shatter the Mafia with a daring maneuver: transfer all of the assets his crime syndicate’s to the United States in one shipment of pure heroin.

Is it too much to ask for an ordinary, boring life? Bai Jian is a typical Chinese boy growing up in a big city. But his life is far from typical: his mother abandoned him when he was a baby, and his father, Hei Jian, is always out of work, always fighting with his long parade of girlfriends, always getting the two of them involved in some harebrained scheme.

Was wäre, wenn wir nur noch die Wahl hätten zwischen totaler Kontrolle und totalem Chaos? Vielleicht hätte Tom den Teufel sofort erkennen können. Doch er braucht einen Investor, und der charismatischen Milliardär Dairon Arakis verfügt über die nötigen Mittel. Als Tom begreift, worum es Arakis wirklich geht, ist es beinahe zu spät: Über ein riesiges Hedge-Fonds-Konsortium hat der Milliardär italienische Banken reihenweise in den Bankrott getrieben und Europa steht kurz vor einem Bürgerkrieg.

Januar 2006. Die Polizei von Hudiksvall macht eine schreckliche Entdeckung: 18 Menschen wurden auf grausame Weise getötet, am Tatort findet man ein rotes Seidenband. Unter den Toten sind auch die Adoptiveltern der Mutter von Richterin Birgitta Roslin, und sie beginnt zu recherchieren. Die Spur führt 140 Jahre in die Vergangenheit und bis nach China ...

The author’s first novel, a tale of debauchery—sex, booze, and drugs— which follows the experiences of an English teacher in China during the happy "boom times" when China won the right to host the Olympics and was accepted into the World Trade Organization. The book also describes the author's time in Beijing during the SARS epidemic. Written in a frank but humorous style, this work provides many insights into modern Chinese society.

Korea testet erstmals erfolgreich Raketen mit Mehrfachsprengköpfen, was im Westen und in China größte Besorgnis auslöst. Entschlossene, politische Reaktionen lassen nicht lange auf sich warten. Um den massiven Sanktionen zu entgehen, schmiedet der nordkoreanische Geheimdienst einen perfiden Plan, dessen Verwirklichung nicht nur die Fundamente des "unzuverlässigen Verbündeten" China, sondern auch den gesamten Westen aus den Angeln heben könnte. Jack Ryan muss sich den neuen Dimensionen der Cyberkriegführung stellen.

Based on exhaustive research and set in the Chinese cradle of civilization, the Yellow River basin, Forgotten Tales of China is a sweeping saga of survival, sacrifice, indomitable perseverance, bravery, and betrayal. Starting 40,000 years ago with cave dwellers who communicated almost solely through sign language, this epic novel transports listeners through the millennium, culminating in China's Bronze Age, 1,600 BC, during the reign of a mad degenerate Xia king.

Inspired by actual events: When a high-ranking Chinese general wants to defect to the US, the CIA tries to recruit a recent Harvard grad teaching at a Beijing university to exfiltrate the man’s daughter—a treacherous operation that could shape the balance of power for decades. The whole debacle was classified and buried. Until now.

China Deception, A Novel, is part one of a series providing a behind-the-scenes look at the origins of COVID-19, as well as the relationships leading up to and shortly thereafter between China, North Korea, Russia, and the United States. All countries, with their leaders, will be intentionally intertwined by a series of coordinated events leading to the release of one of the deadliest viruses the world has ever seen. With the release of COVID 19, the battle of world supremacy has begun.

Der Ermittler Shan wird in ein abgelegenes Bergdorf gerufen. Ein Fremder liegt schwer verwundet im Koma und soll zwei Tibeter umgebracht haben. Doch Shan stößt bei seinen Ermittlungen auf Rätsel: Die Leiche wurden bereits abtransportiert, nicht unweit des Tatorts gibt es eine illegale Mine, und ein seltsamer Deutscher hat in einem leer stehenden Turm sein Lager aufgeschlagen. Als der Fremde aus dem Koma erwacht, wollen die Dorfbewohner ihn umgehend töten, doch Shan erwirkt einen Aufschub - und erlebt eine große Überraschung.

In den Bergen Tibets wird von den Häftlingen der 404. Strafkolonie beim Bau einer Straße die kopflose Leiche eines Mannes entdeckt. Unter den Strafgefangenen befindet sich auch Shan, ein ehemaliger Ermittler, der beauftragt wird, den Fall aufzuklären, bevor eine amerikanische Delegation Tibet besucht. Dabei gerät Shan immer tiefer hinein in die Welt des tibetischen Widerstands... Ein spannender Tibet-Krimi, der mit dem "Edgar Allan Poe Award" als "Bester Erstlingsroman" ausgezeichnet wurde.

A dive into one of China's great poets by the first great populariser of Chinese literature, Arthur Waley.

On the dark waterside docks of Shanghai, a photographer is recording cargo being secretly loaded when he's brutally killed and his camera destroyed. Shortly thereafter Covert-One director Fred Klein brings the word to the President that there's a Chinese cargo ship rumored to be carrying tons of chemicals to be used by a rogue nation to create new biological weapons. Klein is ordered to get the President solid proof of what the Chinese ship is ferrying.

Admiral Jake Grafton takes his wife, Callie, along when the U.S. government sends him to Hong Kong to find out how deeply the American consul-general is embedded in a political money-raising scandal. And why not? Jake and Callie met and fell in love in Hong Kong during the Vietnam War, and the consul-general is a friend from those days.

È tempo di rivolte e rivoluzioni, conflitti e intrighi. New Crobuzon sta cadendo a pezzi. Da un lato la guerra contro l'arcana, oscura città-stato di Tesh, dall'altro i ribelli che si aggirano per le strade portando la metropoli sull'orlo della rovina. Nel mezzo dei disordini, una misteriosa figura mascherata incita a una nuova forma di ribellione, mentre tradimenti e violenze si manifestano in luoghi inconsueti.

Nainai has lived in Shanghai for many years, and the time has come to find a wife for her adopted grandson. But when the bride she has chosen arrives from the countryside, it soon becomes clear that the orphaned girl has ideas of her own. Her name is Fu Ping, and the more she explores the residential lanes and courtyards behind Shanghai’s busy shopping streets, the less she wants to return to the country as a dutiful wife. As Fu Ping wavers over her future, she learns the city through the stories of the nannies, handymen, and garbage collectors of postwar Shanghai....

Chino & the Boy Scouts introduces the mysterious world of Summerhill, the most outstanding feature of which is its unusual schooling system, taught through the medium of "scouting". It’s the final year of school and Chino learns of the existence of a map, through which he might unfold the legend of "the GW", an item long both speculated to be a myth and highly coveted at Eden Gardens Grammar School. Little does he know, he is not the only one bold enough to embark on this quest.

In una Londra tetra e indecifrabile, Billy Harrow, studioso di cefalopodi, guida i visitatori all'interno del Museo di Storia Naturale, dove è ospitato un raro e impressionante esemplare di Architeutis dux, meglio noto come "Calamaro gigante". Nessuno può immaginare quello che sta per accadere, l'evento che avrebbe cambiato per sempre l'esistenza di chi vi avesse assistito: quando il calamaro svanisce nel nulla prima dell'arrivo di Billy e dei visitatori, ogni spiegazione razionale appare subito vana.

In Tienkuo: The Heavenly Kingdom, author Li Bo has drawn on his knowledge of East Asian civilization to transport listeners to 19th-century China. There a massive civil war is tearing the Qing dynasty apart.