Fiction
Meishun and Changsheng
《美顺与长生》
Author: Mao Jianjun
Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House(Jan，2020)
ISBN: 9787020152209
Contact: Ma Yuanyuan
E-mail: lisaipw@foxmail.com
Rights: All rights available
Meishun and Changsheng is a novel that grows organ-ically from life experience. The story spans 20 years from the 1990s to the 2010s. The author depicts the daily life and emotional status of ordinary lower-mid-dle class city dwellers in the Chinese megacity with simple language that is full of details of life. It also reveals the confusions that these people encounter in the rapid changes of the urban era.
Northward
《北上》
Author: Xu Zechen
Publisher: Beijing October Literature and Art
Publishing House(Dec,2018)
ISBN: 9787530218655
Contact: Xie Yunwei
E-mail: xieyw@bphg.com.cn
Rights: Serbian, Iranian rights sold
It tells the centuries-old “secret history” between sev-eral families living along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal with past and present as two clues. This book, trying to connect diferent historical periods of the ca-nal, explores the relationship between ordinary Chinese and their country, the relationship between intellectuals and their country, the relationship between China and the world, and explores the important influence the Grand Canal on China’s politics, economy, geography, culture and the changes of the people’s mind. In this sense, the Grand Canal is a mirror of China.
The “Janitor” in the Forbidden City
《我是故宫“看门人”》
Author: Shan Jixiang
Publisher: Encyclopedia of China Publish-
ing House(Apr,2020)
ISBN: 9787520207034
Contact: Feng Hui
E-mail: 55300812@qq.com
Rights: Portuguese rights sold
Depicting himself as a “gatekeeper”, the author Shan Jixiang, former director of the Palace Museum, talks about his efforts to make the Palace Museum ap-proach the people’s life and protect the place to “leave a magnifcent Palace Museum till the next 600 years”. As a tribute to the 600th anniversary of the establish-ment of the Palace Museum, the book is jointly rec-ommended by three leading scholars. This book also introduces the international exchange work of the Pal-ace Museum as one of the fve largest museums in the world, as well as the interesting stories during foreign dignitaries’ visiting.
Rest in the Cloud
《云中记》
Author: A Lai
Publisher: Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House(Apr,2019)
ISBN: 9787530219409
Contact: Xie Yunwei
E-mail: xieyw@bphg.com.cn
Rights: Russian, Ukrainian rights sold
After the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, people in Yunzhong Village, with thousands of legends, im-migrated to the plains. The priest Aba in the village became more and more uneasy because living people were taken care of by the government, but the dead people still stayed in the mountains and no one looked after them. He felt sorry for them. So he went back to the ruins and went to the door of each family, burning incense and dancing to comfort the dead souls... Even-tually Aba slipped to the bottom of the river with the village. This is an amazing story about love and sac-rifce, a story of a person looking for his own mission and inner peace.
The Messenger
《捎话》
Author: Liu Liangcheng
Publisher: Yilin Press(Oct,2018)
ISBN: 9787544775090
Contact: Zhao Wei
E-mail: zhaowei@yilin.com
Rights: English rights sold
Set in Pisha and Heile, two warring countries in the west without any ofcial communication, this excel-lent fantastic fable centers on a story between Ku, a messenger and famous translator fluent in several languages and a donkey, which itself is said to be a message. Ku was asked to deliver the donkey to his hostile country thousands of miles away, thus the two of them embarked on the journey. Together, they cross battlefelds and deserts, witnessing incredible happen-ings in life and death.
Tales of Western Suburb in Beijing
《北京西郊故事集》
Author: Xu Zechen
Publisher: Beijing October Literature and Art
Publishing House(Dec,2019)
ISBN: 9787530220016
Contact: Xie Yunwei
E-mail: xieyw@bphg.com.cn
Rights: All rights available
Tales of Western Suburb in Beijing is the latest short sto-ry collection written by Xu Zechen, who is the first Maodun Literature Prize Winner among post-70s writ-ers. Nine short stories—On The Roof, Round Wheel, The Six Eared Macaque, Coming of age, The Unseen City, The Dog Barks All Day, Prince of Morocco, If A Snow Seals the Door, My Brother—are collected into the book and tell readers stories about a group of young man’s struggling life in Beijing Western Suburb. Although living in a hard life, they never lose their enthusiasm, and fghting spirit.
Snow White’s Resume
《白雪公主的简历》
Author: Chen Danyan
Publisher: Zhejiang Literature&Art Publishing
House（May,2020）
ISBN: 9787533960742
Contact: Luo Minbo
E-mail: 506769509@qq.com
Rights: All rights available
It’s the latest experimental work of the famous writ-er Chen danyan. The novel is divided into three parts——Suspensory Filament, Mirror and Red Deli-cious Apple, which respectively tells three stories of middle-aged people of Ben, Zhang Jie and Mei. Each part has several sub-narrative clues like the movie The Inception. These clues are like close-up shots that show the circumstances, feelings, psychology of each pro-tagonist and their relationships with the people around them. The author also integrates the language of the novel with the photos she took in her daily life, which sets the fctional novel in a real background. Under the gaze of the old time, the writer shows the middle-aged people’s life.
The Life of Miss Zhu San
《朱三小姐的一生》
Author: Ren Xiaowen
Publisher: Beijing October Literature and Art
Publishing House(Feb,2020)
ISBN: 9787530220283
Contact: Xie Yunwei
E-mail: xieyw@bphg.com.cn
Rights: All rights available
This book includes six stories, the writer observes from the perspective of lower-class citizens in Shang-hai. The stories are about human nature, domestic voi-lence, loneliness and Ethical relationship. This book shows the readers another angle of life in Shanghai.
Love, Heal and Redemption
《若不能相濡以沫》
Author: Ren Zhong,Lin Yifu
Publisher: Fujian Education Press(Jan,2020)
ISBN: 9787533486525
Contact: Chen Xiaohang
E-mail: 442332959@qq.com
Rights: All rights available
This title tells the story of a group of young people’s journey of finding love and healings. They met at a local board game bar, each carried with them rich histories and wounds from memories. This story is like a condensed picture of modern life in China. It tells how material prosperity boosted by social development makes people neglect their true feelings , and helps us all realize why it is important to have a spiritual escape from the world we live in from time to time.
Clouds from Hometown
《故乡的云》
Author: (Canada)Zhang ling, Zhang Zhiren
Publisher: Zhejiang Literature&Art Publishing
House ((Nov,2019)
ISBN: 9787533957902
Contact: Luo Minbo
Email: 506769509@qq.com
Rights: French rights sold
This book sets more than 70 ethnic Chinese writers’ proses and poems, which express their great afection to their homeland, China. These expressions are in re-lation to the development of China in their views and memories about their hometowns and their families, and illustrate a series of benefcial efects from China to all over the world.