Product Description: In Change, Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades in this novella disguised as autobiography—or vice-versa. Unlike most historical narratives from China, which are pegged to political events, Change is a representative of “people’s history,” a bottom-up rather than top-down view of a country in flux...read more

The author of The Republic of Wine presents a new collection of innovative short stories, which range from the tragic to the comic and reflect the author's own disdain for bureaucracy and repression, that includes the title story, which is being made into a major film by acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou. (view table of contents)

Three special relationships are set against the backdrop of a glut on the 1987 Chinese garlic market, which caused the crumbling of many Paradise County livelihoods and a rebellion against corrupt Communist officials

Product Description: Mo Yan, arguably China's most important contemporary literary voice, recreates the historical sweep and earthy exuberance of his much acclaimed novel Red Sorghum.

Exploited by a Chinese communist government that has set impossibly high taxes and encouraged them to grow garlic at surplus levels, the farmers of Paradise County find their lives and families devastated by trumped-up criminal charges, unsellable crops, and an apocalyptic riot. Reprint.

Plagued by persistent reports of cannibalism in a province known as the Republic of Wine, the Chinese government sends a special investigator to substantiate the disturbing rumors. 10,000 first printing.

A novel of family, myth, and memory set during the fratricidal barbarity of 1930s China follows the Chinese as they battle the Japanese and each other