China - Fiction from The Penang Bookshelf

Singapore: Graham Brash, 1990. Paperback. Very Good. A fictional portrait of an aristocratic woman in fourteenth century China who manages to escape having her feet bound. Her independence of spirit encourages her to flout the laws of marriage and fall in love with the 'wrong' man. She does not find much happiness as she is tossed about by… Read more about this item

Hong Kong: Rainbow, 1963. Fourth edition. Paperback. Very Good. An amusing story of what happened when a mother and her daughter wanted to buy a simple pair of pyjamas in Communist China. Translated from the original Chinese by Richard Lee. 130 pages. Weight: 0.3kg. Post free within Malaysia There is a little bit of cover wear. The inside… Read more about this item

London: Fourth Estate, 2013. Paperback. As New. A well received novel charting the lives of five newcomers to contemporary Shanghai. All five, initially unknown to each other, are lured by the promise of riches and a new life and find their lives converging in unpredictable ways. The book was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013. 437 pages.… Read more about this item

London: The School of Oriental and African Studies, 1966. Paperback. Very Good. This a 7 page article in Bulletin of The School of Oriental and African Studies XXIX Part 2 (1966) a volume of 260 pages. The article has not been detached from the volume. The price includes the whole volume. Details of the remaining contents are available… Read more about this item

Hong Kong: Dragonfly Books, 1961. Second printing. Paperback. Good. Although born in Shanghai, the author spent most of his life as an academic and journalist in Southeast Asia. This satire of the Chinese commune system was his first novel. 132 pages. Weight: 0.3 kg. * Post free within Malaysia. The covers have age marks , the endpapers… Read more about this item