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Jun.03.2013
After his grandfather dies, avid scholar and budding forensic investigator Cí Song begrudgingly gives up his studies to help his family. But when another tragedy strikes, he’s forced to run and also deemed a fugitive. Dishonored, he has no choice but to accept work as a lowly gravedigger, a...
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Aug.16.2012
A powerful new novel about an ordinary family facing extraordinary times at the start of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
China, 1957. Chairman Mao has declared a new openness in society: "Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend." Many intellectuals fear it is only a...
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Jan.03.2012
The raucously funny story of one young American's quest to become the baddes dude on the planet (and possibly find inner peace along the way)
Growing up a ninety-eight pound weakling tormented by bullies in the schoolyeards of Kansas, Matthew Polly dreamed of one day journeying to the Shaolin...
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Dec.22.2011
All eyes are on China. Yet despite constant media coverage, increased tourism and rampant foreign investment, the cultural distance between China and the West remains as vast as the oceans that separate them. For all intents and purposes, the Middle Kingdom is still relatively unknown by Westerners...
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Aug.14.2011
“Turncoats” and “Diabolic Brainwashing” are among the headlines that met the 21 young American GIs who refused repatriation when the armistice was signed to end the Korean War (1950-53) and chose to go to Red China. Hollywood films such as “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962) didn’t help ease...
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May.11.2011
Product Description A Bomber crew crash lands in a remote area of China after dropping their bombs on Chinese cities in a terrible future war. The survivors are embraced by a hamlet filled with children, only to learn that doom might have come to claim them all.
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Mar.09.2011
Al Pennyback and his friends were instrumental in apprehending Chinese gangster Li Wei and putting him behind bars. With the help of his brother, Li Jiu Long, he escapes and comes back to Washington, DC seeking revenge. Li and his brother go on a killing spree while Al races against the clock to...
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Oct.06.2010
Edited by Red Room author Charles Degelman, Harvard Square Editions’ second short-fiction anthology, Voice from the Planet, guides the reader on a globe-trotting literary adventure through an exciting international world of living fiction.
Experience the trauma of an African earthquake and...
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Oct.05.2010
Mary and Ingrid are sisters who were born and brought up in China but now reside in the United States. Mary is the older of the two; seemingly a devoted wife, mother, and churchgoer. Yet she is tormented by adultery, a grudge toward her parents, and her despair at work. Her estranged sister Ingrid...
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Aug.31.2010
When David Jedeikin's partner of three years becomes critically ill, the only way to save him is to volunteer as his living liver donor. But this ultimate act of sharing doesn't rescue their relationship, which ends soon after with the couple on opposite coasts.
Struggling to find perspective...
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