This book will change the way you see the world’s rising superpower. A pacy history of China that can be read in an afternoon, but will transform your perspective for a lifetime.
Books
Non Fiction
Beijing
Beijing introduces you to the lively history of the capital of China, one full of grandeur and spectacle as well as sieges, massacres, and rebellions.
Fiction
The Empress Lover
A witty and playful mystery set in contemporary Beijing, The Empress Lover is Linda Jaivin’s seventh novel and her most accomplished.
Non Fiction
Found in Translation: In praise of a plural world
This is a free-ranging essay, personal and informed, about translation in its narrowest and broadest senses, and the prism – occasionally prison – of culture.
Fiction
A Most Immoral Woman
Inspired by a true story‚ A Most Immoral Woman is a surprising‚ witty and erotic tale of sexual and other obsessions set in the floating world of Westerners in China and Japan at the turn of the twentieth century.
Fiction
The Infernal Optimist
The Infernal Optimist is a portrait of a part of Australia rarely seen in fiction, and a dark comedy about an issue – refugees – that is no laughing matter.
Non Fiction
The Monkey and the Dragon
The Monkey and the Dragon is a story about China in the 1980s, a song and its singer, a cross-cultural friendship, politics and life on the edge.
Fiction
Miles Walker, You’re Dead
A sexy, fast-paced romp that ends with a (literal) bang — and skewers art, politics, and pop culture with mischievous delight along the way.
Fiction
Rock n Roll Babes from Outer Space
Space girls aren’t easy, but they have a lot of fun in this rock n roll road movie of a book: part ode to Sydney’s pub rock scene, part ode to our alien obsessions. The big bang was never so much fun.