Clear coverage of the latest syllabus including insight into Chinese as an evolving language and its grammatical and linguistic differences. - Introduces language rules on Chinese grammar and vocabula
A mystifying climatic incongruity begins the award-winning novel Lenin’s Kisses?an absurdist, tragicomic masterpiece set in modern day China. Nestled deep within the Balou mountains, spared from the g
In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling reeducation compound, freethinking artists and academics are detained to strengthen and affirm their loyalty to Communist ideologies. Here, in this isolated
Yan Lianke is one of the most acclaimed writers of contemporary China—twice a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, as well as the winner of the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize—and he has bee
On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China’s Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable ne
Is corruption an inevitable part of the transition to a free-market economy? Yan Sun here examines the ways in which market reforms in the People's Republic of China have shaped corruption since 1978
