To learn more about Chinese culture and history, try these new  fiction titles  written by authors of Chinese heritage!

Brothers By Yu, Hua Translator Chow, Eileen Cheng-Yin Translator Rojas, Carlos 2009-01 - Pantheon Books 0375424997 Check Our Catalog From the acclaimed--and controversial--Chinese novelist comes a spirited comedy of society running amok. By turns comic and tragic, filled with sly humor and a vibrant sense of life in China today, "Brothers" is the most important work to date from this award-winning writer. …More

Dream of Ding Village By Lianke, Yan Author Yan, Lianke Translator Carter, Cindy 2011-01 - Grove Press 0802119328 Check Our Catalog Inspired by real-life horrors, the allegorical tale of a poor village and a divided family destroyed by blood profiteering in eastern China during the early days of AIDS. …More

Feathered Serpent By Xiaobin, Xu Translator Howard-Gibbon, John Translator Wang, Joanne 2010-02 - Atria Books 1416583815 Check Our Catalog One of the foremost works of Chinese literature of the 20th century, this epic family history portrays women across five generations, as well as the history, religion, and culture that has marked each woman's life. Download and print our discussion guide (PDF) …More

Habit of a Foreign Sky By Xi, Xu 2010-10 - Haven Books 988189672x Check Our Catalog Somewhere between Hong Kong and New York, life does an abrupt shift for Gail Szeto, when her mother, her last family member, is killed in an accident. For Gail, a mixed-race, single mother who had buried her young son less than two years prior, all she has left is a hard-won career at a global investment bank. Life rapidly goes into free fall for this woman with a complicated past, who was once so sure of her direction in life, who can now see no clear future path. Shortlisted for the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize, this novel offers a an international cast of characters in New York, Hong Kong and Shanghai. …More

In the Lap of the Gods By Lovett, Li Miao 2010-11 - Leapfrog Press 1935248138 Check Our Catalog A massive dam rises on the Yangtze and a scavenger saves a baby girl as his world disappears beneath the waters. …More

Kitchen Chinese: A Novel about Food, Family, and Finding Yourself By Mah, Ann 2010-02 - William Morrow & Company 0061771279 Check Our Catalog Isabelle Lee thinks she knows everything about Chinese cuisine. After all, during her Chinese-American childhood, she ate it every day. Isabelle may speak only "kitchen Chinese"--the familial chatter learned at her mother's knee--but she understands the language of food. Now, in the wake of a career-ending catastrophe, she's ready for a change--so she takes off for Beijing to stay with her older sister, Claire, whom she's never really known, and finds a job writing restaurant reviews for an expat magazine. In the midst of her extreme culture shock, and the more she comes to learn about her sister's own secrets, Isabelle can't help but wonder whether coming to China was a mistake . . . or an extraordinary chance to find out who she really is. …More

The Mao Case By Xiaolong, Qiu 2009-03 - Minotaur Books 031253874X Check Our Catalog Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is the head of the Special Case group and is often put in charge of politically "sensitive" cases. Inspector Chen takes his job as a policeman very seriously, and is unwilling to compromise his principles in favor of political expedience. …More

Once on a Moonless Night By Sijie, Dai Translator Hunter, Adriana 2009-08 - Knopf Publishing Group 0307271587 Check Our Catalog From the author of the beloved best seller "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress" comes a haunting tale of love--and the beguiling power of a lost language--in this story that carries readers across the breadth of China's past. …More

Paper Butterfly By Liang, Diane Wei 2009-05 - Simon & Schuster 1416549579 Check Our Catalog The second installment in the successful Mei Wang detective series offers a riveting tale of intrigue, culture clash, and missing persons in modern China. …More

Pearl of China By Min, Anchee 2010-03 - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 1596916974 Check Our Catalog From the bestselling author of "Red Azalea" and "Empress Orchid" comes the powerful story of the friendship of a lifetime, based on the life of Pearl S. Buck. …More

The Piano Teacher By Lee, Janice Y. K. 2009-03 - Thorndike Press 1410413047 Check Our Catalog In the sweeping tradition of "The English Patient" comes this gripping tale set in war-torn Hong Kong. Rich with intrigue, romance, and betrayal, this wonderfully written, utterly captivating novel dazzles . . .--Chang-rae Lee. …More

A Thread of Sky By Fei, Deanna 2010-04 - Penguin Press 1594202494 Check Our Catalog Looking to reconnect with their ancestral home and with one another, three generations of women tour mainland China on a journey that will change their family forever, in this stunning debut by a talented new writer. …More

Three Sisters By Bi, Feiyu Translator Goldblatt, Howard Translator Lin, Sylvia Li-Chun 2010-08 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) 0151013640 Check Our Catalog The second novel from Bi Feiyu, this time dealing with the voyage of three sisters through contemporary China. …More

The Vagrants By Li, Yiyun 2009-02 - Random House (NY) 1400063132 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title The astonishing first novel from the author of the award-winning story collection "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" weaves together the delicate moments between mothers and sons, husbands and wives, illuminating the reality of oppression and pain. …More

Years of Red Dust: Stories of Shanghai By Xiaolong, Qiu 2010-09 - St. Martin's Press 0312628099 Check Our Catalog Published originally in the pages of "Le Monde, "this collection of linked short stories by Qiu Xiaolong has already been a major bestseller in France "(Cite de la Poussiere Rouge) "and Germany "(Das Tor zur Roten Gasse), "where it and the author was the subject of a major television documentary. The stories in "Years of Red Dust "trace the changes in modern China over fifty years--from the early days of the Communist revolution in 1949 to the modernization movement of the late nineties--all from the perspective of one small street in Shanghai, Red Dust Lane. From the early optimism at the end of the Chinese Civil War, through the brutality and upheaval of the Cultural Revolution, to the death of Mao, the pro-democracy movement and the riots in Tiananmen Square--history, on both an epic and personal scale, unfolds through the bulletins posted and the lives lived in this one lane, this one corner of Shanghai. …More