China Fiction

Brushstrokes in Time, written by Sylvia Vetta, is a memoir of fictional Chinese artist, Little Winter, written for her American daughter. It takes the story of Communist China beyond the death of Mao and for the first time in fiction shows the birth of the radical art movement, The Stars, in 1979. Her haunting love story connects us to this time of hope for freedom of expression in China, and to a man frustrated by "being kept in small shoes".

Little Red Riding Hood - 小红帽: Fables, folktales and stories play a fundamental part in children's development. They use powerful imagery and symbols to entertain while conveying essential moral teachings; the stories ignite imagination, taking a firm root in children's minds, and gently initiate them to the essential moral principles of life. Our tales and stories have been carefully selected for their wisdom and power of evocation. Discover or rediscover, narrated in a warm and lively way, the best stories for kids in Mandarin Chinese.

Francis Arrowsmith is a man without a country, a soldier-of-fortune in search of a war. An English orphan raised in France by exiled Jesuits, he hopes to make a quick pile out of his rare skills in building and operating artillery. Little does he know that when he joins a Portuguese expedition to aid the decadent and corrupt Ming dynasty in its fight against the Manchu invaders, he is embarking on a journey that will merge his destiny with the fate of China itself.

Cindy Mayfield is a OSI (Office of Special Investigations) Special Agent. She joined the OSI to learn more about the government lie called MK-Ultra, a lie she learned about as a Correctional Officer at California Medical Facility. This leads her on the trail of virus and vaccine recipes, and ultimately, to China. Her OSI controller stumbles onto 2020 Presidential Ballots, printed in Guangdong, China. Agent Mayfield discovers a far bigger government lie than MK-Ultra - the COVID virus is tied to a coup d’état of the Presidential Election.

Weit über 3 Millionen verkaufte Romane weltweit - Cixin Liu hat der chinesischen Science-Fiction die Tür zur westlichen Welt geöffnet. An seinem vierzehnten Geburtstag muss der junge Chen miterleben, wie seine Eltern vor seinen Augen getötet werden. Ein mehrere tausend Grad heißer Feuerball fährt in das alte Haus und verwandelt alles in Asche - ein Kugelblitz. Ab diesem Ereignis hat Chen nur noch ein Ziel im Leben: Er will diesem rätselhaften Naturphänomen auf den Grund gehen und es erforschen.

In 1936, classical pianist Thomas Greene is recruited to Shanghai to lead a jazz orchestra of fellow African-American expats. From being flat broke in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with servants of his own, he becomes the toast of a city obsessed with music, money, pleasure, and power, even as it ignores the rising winds of war. Song Yuhua is refined and educated, and has been bonded since age eighteen to Shanghai's most powerful crime boss in payment for her father's gambling debts.

Staid, responsible Elodie Buchanan is the eldest of 10 sisters growing up in a small English market town in 1861. The girls barely know their father, a plant hunter usually off adventuring through China, more myth than man. Then disaster strikes: Mr. Buchanan reneges on his contract to collect an extremely rare and valuable orchid. He will be thrown into debtors' prison while his daughters are sent to the orphanage and the workhouse.

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.

Keine halben Sachen. In China ist eine neue Regierung an der Macht - zunächst scheint ihr globaler Einfluss schwach. Jack Ryan junior und John Clark können sich einen Vorsprung im Kampf gegen chinesische Triaden erkämpfen. Doch der Schein trügt: Schon bald gibt es zahlreiche militärische Bewegungen der Volksrepublik, die die USA in eine heikle Lage bringen. Präsident Jack Ryan senior muss schnell handeln, bevor der anstehende G-20-Gipfel zum Desaster wird.

Colonel Matt Pontowski, grandson of a former US president, attempts to boost the morale of his pilots who know their killer A-10 Warthog aircraft are due to be phased out. When trouble erupts in Hong Kong and southern China, his wing volunteers for a dangerous undercover mission against the world's most feared and volatile superpower. A massacre is looming and millions of innocent people are at risk. Pontowski and his volunteers are now reluctant to withdraw, despite orders, as they initiate their own plans to overthrow the brutal regime that has been gaining power.

Ein Zukunftsthriller aus dem Jahre 2027. Packend erzählt von Stefan Kaminski...

Der Mandarin Kao-tai reist mittels eines Zeitkompasses aus dem China des 10. Jahrhunderts ins 20. Jahrhundert nach München. Mit der Unbefangenheit, die ein Abstand von 1000 Jahren und ein völlig anderer Kulturkreis ermöglichen, beobachtet er den "Fortschritt" der "Großnasen", die nicht ruhen und rasten, sondern beständig von sich fortschreiten...

A soaring story that will sweep listeners from the docks of China to the court of Kublai Khan as young Haoyou learns to ride the winds strapped to a great scarlet kite in the traveling circus of the Great Miao.

Es ist die ergreifende Geschichte des armen Bauern Wang Lung, der sich mit Fleiß, Sparsamkeit und Verzicht großen Reichtum erwirbt. Weder Hungersnöte noch Überschwemmungen können den Bauern entmutigen, auf seine "gute Erde" zu vertrauen. Doch die Freude über sein Glück wird ihm zusehends durch seine drei Söhne genommen, die keineswegs in seine Fußstapfen treten wollen.

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.

Penned by an ethnic Tibetan living in China, Red Poppies chronicles the life of Young Master, the "idiot" son of a wealthy Maiqi clan in 1930s pre-occupation Tibet. Before his sage-like eyes, Young Master's world turns from one of pleasantry and peace to one where poppies, vital to the heroin market, are traded for the tools of warfare. The first of a planned trilogy, Red Poppies is a sweeping, cinematic story that brings Tibet to life for all eyes to see.

Der mächtigste Mann der Welt, Qiánlóng, Kaiser von China, lädt den englischen Automatenbauer und Uhrmacher Alister Cox an seinen Hof. Der Meister aus London soll in der Verbotenen Stadt Uhren bauen, an denen die unterschiedlichen Geschwindigkeiten der Zeiten des Glücks, der Kindheit, der Liebe, auch von Krankheit und Sterben abzulesen sind. Schließlich verlangt Qiánlóng, der gemäß einem seiner zahllosen Titel auch alleiniger Herr über die Zeit ist, eine Uhr zur Messung der Ewigkeit.

Raso è uno psicopatico. Un poliziotto. Una belva assetata di sangue che si aggira per la città. Sta cercando la sua ex-moglie, Ky-Won, una prostituta arrivata in Italia negli anni Sessanta dopo la fuga dalla Cina maoista. Il drago a cinque artigli della mafia cinese a Milano veglia su di lei, cerca di impossessarsi della sua anima, ma quando Ky-Won scopre che il marito è uscito di prigione, intuisce che non avrà scampo. Lui la troverà, e le farà conoscere gli orrori che le ha promesso il giorno che è stato condannato per omicidio, grazie alla sua testimonianza.

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.

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.