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A Faithful Reading partner: a story from a Hakka village
This book has won the 2013 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Juvenile Books).
Position: 289 (320 views)
A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture
This book has won the 2013 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Non-Fiction).
Position: 335 (309 views)
Contemporary Chinese Art
"In this first systematic introduction to the topic, art historian and critic Wu Hung provides a much-needed narrative of the development of Chinese art across all media from the 1970s to the 2000s, a timespan characterized by radical social,…
Position: 243 (333 views)
Decoded
"In his gripping debut novel, Mai Jia reveals the mysterious world of Unit 701, a top-secret Chinese intelligence agency whose sole purpose is counterespionage and code breaking. Rong Jinzhen, an autistic math genius with a past shrouded in myth, is…
Position: 289 (320 views)
Summoning the Phoenix: Poems and Prose About Chinese Musical Instruments
"Every musician knows that learning to play an instrument has its challenges and its rewards. There's the embarrassing first day of rehearsal, but also the joy of making friends in the orchestra. There's dealing with slippery concert dress, or simply…
Position: 216 (339 views)
Writer as Migrant
This book has won the 2009 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Non-Fiction).
Position: 366 (301 views)
Hollywood Made in China
"This book comes highly recommended in the academia for the study of film/media and Sino-US relations as well as for professionals in the media industry. It also examines the new collaborations of Sino-US media with insightful policy analysis,…
Position: 44 (420 views)
Girl in Translation
This book has won the 2010 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Young Adult Books).
Position: 299 (318 views)
Two Sons of China
"Two Sons of China is a sweeping epic of the Second World War in China—a theater of that conflict that many consider 'forgotten'. The story centers on an unlikely friendship that forms between two soldiers, one an American, the other a Chinese…
Position: 196 (344 views)
The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
"In The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited, Louisa Lim, formerly a correspondent in Beijing for NPR and the BBC, and currently teaching journalism at the University of Michigan, revisits the 1989 crackdown on the democracy movement in…
Position: 108 (383 views)
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Living with Viola

Olivia Tong's anxiety takes the form of a ghostly and mean inner voice named Viola. Viola is there to create self-doubt, feed on Livy's fears, and…