In the 1990s, as China continues to embrace—and grapple with—the global market economy, Qiu Shui and his friends attend med school, an ambition that has more to do with getting out of the country than with actually becoming doctors. Following the exploits of a young student and his classmates, from drinking binges, sex, and playing video games all night to military training, ho...(展开全部)

简介：新来的老师给人一种很熟悉的感觉?“我以前认识你吗?”“不认识。”但是“我不介意从新认识你。”【看来我们不曾忘记过去，只是忘记了忘记。】

简介：新来的老师给人一种很熟悉的感觉?“我以前认识你吗?”“不认识。”但是“我不介意从新认识你。”【看来我们不曾忘记过去，只是忘记了忘记。】

A runaway besteller in China, sold in 15+ countries, this delightfully honest and humorous account gives a face and voice to the silent majority. Think Nomadland crossed with Nickel and Dimed through a contemporary lens of Asian philosophy about the nature of work. In 2023, I Deliver Parcels in Beijing became a literary sensation of the year in China. The story of a worker doin...(展开全部)

Childhood friends use time travel to try to avert tragedy in this bittersweet book about growing up, love, and loss–by the creators of the light novel and manga series The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes that inspired an anime film (also from Seven Seas). After disturbing experiences in the city, seventeen-year-old Kanae flees back to his childhood home on a remote islan...(展开全部)

Banned in China for its candid exploration of a young girl's sexual awakening yet widely acclaimed as being "the first novel of 'tough youth' in China" ( Beijing Today ), Beijing Doll cuts a daring path through China's rock-and-roll subculture. This cutting edge novel -- drawn from the diaries the author kept throughout her teenage years -- takes readers to the streets of Bei...(展开全部)

These folk-tales come from Beijing Legends, compiled by Jin Shousen, a member of the Manchu gentry who lived in Beijing for many years. Based on the tales told by many generations of Beijing story-tellers, they were first published by the People's Publishing House in 1957. Revised edition, with illustrations.

Ten Thousand Things explores the many forms of life, or, in ancient Chinese parlance "the ten thousand things" that life is and is becoming, in contemporary Beijing and beyond. Coauthored by an American anthropologist and a Chinese philosopher, the book examines the myriad ways contemporary residents of Beijing understand and nurture the good life, practice the embodied arts of...(展开全部)

A witty and humane account of one man, multiple jobs and what it means to live Hu AnYan has held nineteen different jobs since he graduated. He’s been a convenience store clerk, a bicycle salesman, a security guard and a delivery driver (among many other things). Every time the work gets punishing or the bosses too bossy, he moves on, from city to city, carrying with him nothin...(展开全部)