Geling Yan

It''s December 1937. The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church. Among them is Shujuan, through whose thirteen-year-old eyes we witness the shocking events that follow. Run by Father Engelmann, an American priest who has been in China for many years, the church is supposedly neutral ground in the war between China and Japan. But it becomes clear the Japanese are not obeying international rules of engagement. As they pour through the streets of Nanking, raping and pillaging the civilian population, the girls are in increasing danger. And their safety is further compromised when prostitutes from the nearby brothel climb over the wall into the compound seeking refuge. Short, powerful, vivid, this beautiful novel transports the reader to 1930s China. Full of wonderful characters, from the austere priest to the irreverent prostitutes, it is a story about how war upsets all prejudices and how love can flourish amidst death.

This moving short novel is based on true events that took place during the Nanjing Massacre in 1937 when the Japanese invaded the Chinese city, slaughtering not only soldiers but raping and murdering

In the last days of World War II, the Japanese occupation of Manchuria has collapsed. As the Chinese move in, the elders of the Japanese settler village of Sakito decide to preserve their honour by killing all the villagers in an act of mass suicide. Only 16-year-old Tatsuru escapes. But Tatsuru's trials have just begun. As she flees, she falls into the hands of human traffickers. She is sold to a wealthy Chinese family, where she becomes Duohe - the clandestine second wife to the only son, and the secret bearer of his children. Against all odds, Duohe forms an unlikely friendship with the first wife Xiaohuan, united by the unshakeable bonds of motherhood and family. Spanning several tumultuous decades of Mao's rule, Little Aunt Crane is a novel about love, bravery and survival, and how humanity endures in the most unlikely of circumstances.

Dan is an unemployed factory worker who learns to sneak into state-sponsored banquets so he can eat exquisite gourmet meals free of charge. But the secrets Dan overhears at these events eventually lead him down a twisted, intrigue-laden path. When he becomes privy to a scandal that runs from the depths of society up to its highest rungs, Dan must find a way to lay bare the corruption - without revealing the dangerous truth about himself. This is a thrilling rollercoaster ride through the new world of boomtown China.

This is the fantastical tale of Dan Dong, an unemployed factory worker whose life takes a series of unexpected twists upon his discovery that simply by posing as a journalist he can eat exquisite gourmet meals free of charge at state-sponsored banquets. But the secrets Dan overhears at these events eventually lead him down a twisted, intrigue-laden path, and his true and false identities become increasingly harder to separate. When he becomes privy to a scandal that runs from the depths of society up to its highest rungs, Dan must find a way to lay bare the corruption - without revealing the dangerous truth about himself.

Narrated in a haunting voice that mulls over painful truths of the past, this is an unflinching, erotic tale of forbidden love in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Fusang is a Chinese girl who is shanghaied from her village and brought to San Francisco, where she enters a seedy underworld.

"Living Dolls" tells the story of humanity''s age-old obsession with moving dolls and speaking robots, intelligent machines and bionic men - and it gives the history of ingenious inventors and their fantastical creations. Could an 18th-century mechanical duck really digest and excrete its food? Was the "Automatic Turk", a celebrated chess-playing machine that toured around Europe, a fake? Why did the great inventor Thomas Edison go to so much effort to mass produce a speaking mechanical child? What happened to the family of midgets who pretended to be dolls? And how can a 21st-century robot express human emotions?

Décembre 1937. Alors que l’armée japonaise se répand furieusement à travers Nankin, massacrant, violant, pillant tout sur son passage, un groupe d’écolières terrifiées se réfugie dans l’église Sainte

"The Secret Talker is a profound meditation on love, the difficulties of communication and the agonizing joy and brutality of commitment." -- THE NEW YORK TIMESA NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF 2021 AND "GLOBETROTTING" PICK!A woman reclaims her own story in this taut and wholly original literary tale from one of Chinas literary superstars.Hongmei is the perfect Chinese wife: beautiful, diligent, passive. Glen is the perfect American husband: intelligent, caring, well-off. From the outside, Hongmei and Glens life in the San Francisco Bay Area seems perfect. But at home, their marriage is falling apart. Post-its left on the fridge are their primary form of communication. When Hongmei receives a beguiling email from a secret admirer, naturally shes intrigued. But what starts out as harmless flirting with an internet stranger quickly turns into an all-consuming emotional affair. As Hongmei spills more and more about her dark past as a military intelligence officer-in-training in China, she falls deeper and deeper into a tense cat-and-mouse game. Desperate and self-destructive, she embarks on an investigation into her emailers secret historyone that may tear her life and marriage apart forever.A psychological story at its core, The Secret Talker elegantly examines how repressed desire and simmering silence can upend even the most idyllic marriage. As Hongmei pursues her stalker, her identity and agency come into question, and the chase curveballs into a captivating journey of self-actualization. Yan Geling pierces the human psyche to reveal devastating and emotional truths and an ending that will leave readers speechless.Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang

In the last days of World War II, the Japanese occupation of Manchuria has collapsed. As the Chinese move in, the elders of the Japanese settler village of Sakito decide to preserve their honour by killing all the villagers in an act of mass suicide. Only 16-year-old Tatsuru escapes. But Tatsurus trials have just begun. As she flees, she falls into the hands of human traffickers. She is sold to a wealthy Chinese family, where she becomes Duohe - the clandestine second wife to the only son, and the secret bearer of his children. Against all odds, Duohe forms an unlikely friendship with the first wife Xiaohuan, united by the unshakeable bonds of motherhood and family. Spanning several tumultuous decades of Maos rule, Little Aunt Crane is a novel about love, bravery and survival, and how humanity endures in the most unlikely of circumstances.

December 1937. The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church. Among them is Shujuan, through whose thirteen-year-old eyes we witness the shocking events that follow. Run by Father Engelmann, an American priest who has been in China for many years, the church is supposedly neutral ground in the war between China and Japan. But it becomes clear the Japanese are not obeying international rules of engagement. As they pour through the streets of Nanking, raping and pillaging the civilian population, the girls are in increasing danger. And their safety is further compromised when prostitutes from the nearby brothel climb over the wall into the compound seeking refuge. Short, powerful, vivid, this beautiful novel transports the reader to 1930s China. Full of wonderful characters, from the austere priest to the irreverent prostitutes, it is a story about how war upsets all prejudices and how love can flourish amidst death.

La apasionante historia de una mujer que encarna la compleja historia reciente de China. Todas ellas quedaron viudas aquella noche del verano de 1944. A partir de entonces en el pueblo de Shitun hubo nueve viudas en plena flor de la vida... Ocho adolescentes se convierten en viudas heroicas tras liberar a ocho guerrilleros laoba de una muerte segura a manos de los japoneses. La novena viuda, Wang Putao, no recibira los mismos honores que ellas. Huerfana desde muy niña, pasa a formar parte de la familia de Sun Huaiqing, un prospero comerciante, pero todo cambia tras el triunfo de la revolucion comunista comandada por Mao Zedong. De la mano de esta joven impulsiva y tenaz, Geling Yan retrata la compleja historia reciente de China. Las colectivizaciones agrarias, las purgas de la Revolucion Cultural, las luchas internas de los dirigentes politicos, las disidencias y las represiones que cambiaron la Historia se alternan con las batallas cotidianas y las intermitencias del amor en la apasionante vida de Wang Putao. Reseña:Geling Yan destaca como eminente escritora de la diaspora china. Su obra de ficcion ha alcanzado una altisima reputacion tanto dentro como fuera de China.Ha Jin

Una sobrecogedora historia de miedo y violencia, pero también de amor, pasiones ingobernables, amistad y compasión, que Zhang Yimou llevó al cine en la mayor producción cinematográfica de la historia de China. 1937, Nanjing: el ejercito japones ha entrado en la capital china a sangre y fuego. La guerra ha atrapado a Shujuan junto con otras doce estudiantes en el desvan de la parroquia Santa Maria Magdalena, al cuidado del padre Engelmann. Aunque hay algo que sacude su mundo con mas fuerza que el sonido de los disparos. Cuando la misteriosa y seductora Zhao Yumo llega al frente de un grupo de prostitutas en busca de refugio, las niñas y los clerigos tienen que enfrentarse a sus propias encrucijadas: ¿donde esta la justicia?, ¿que los distingue de esas mujeres?, ¿como defenderse de la crueldad?Reseñas:Una vez mas Yan da la talla y nos regala una esplendida narracion con un puñado de personajes inolvidables que siguen acompañando al lector cuando ya ha cerrado el libro.Jesus Ferrero, Babelia Yan conmueve al lector en lo mas profundo de su ser. Mucho despues de haber concluidola lectura, las imagenes perduran y regresan las preguntas, preguntas necesarias en tiempos extremos.Amy Tan

Una alabanza a los valores capaces de sobrevivir a los disparos y de sobreponerse al miedo -la compasi#n, la humildad, el amor-, as# como el relato vivo y descarnado de la p#rdida de la inocencia. 1937, Nanjing: el ej#rcito japon#s ha entrado en la capital china a sangre y fuego. La guerra ha atrapado a Shujuan junto con otras doce estudiantes en el desv#n de la parroquia Santa Mar#a Magdalena, al cuidado del padre Engelmann. Aunque hay algo que sacude su mundo con m#s fuerza que el sonido de los disparos. Cuando la misteriosa y seductora Zhao Yumo llega al frente de un grupo de prostitutas en busca de refugio, las ni#as y los cl#rigos tienen que enfrentarse a sus propias encrucijadas: #d#nde est# la justicia?, #qu# los distingue de esas mujeres?, #c#mo defenderse de la crueldad?

La apasionante historia de una mujer que encarna la compleja historia reciente de China.Todas ellas quedaron viudas aquella noche del verano de 1944. A partir de entonces en el pueblo de Shitun hubo nueve viudas en plena flor de la vida...Ocho adolescentes se convierten en viudas heroicas tras liberar a ocho guerrilleros laoba de una muerte segura a manos de los japoneses. La novena viuda, Wang Putao, no recibira los mismos honores que ellas. Huerfana desde muy niña, pasa a formar parte de la familia de Sun Huaiqing, un prospero comerciante, pero todo cambia tras el triunfo de la revolucion comunista comandada por Mao Zedong.De la mano de esta joven impulsiva y tenaz, Geling Yan retrata la compleja historia reciente de China. Las colectivizaciones agrarias, las purgas de la Revolucion Cultural, las luchas internas de los dirigentes politicos, las disidencias y las represiones que cambiaron la Historia se alternan con las batallas cotidianas y las intermitencias del amor en la apasionante vida de Wang Putao.Reseña: Geling Yan destaca como eminente escritora de la diaspora china. Su obra de ficcion ha alcanzado una altisima reputacion tanto dentro como fuera de China. Ha Jin

.. 1989Awakening1969"Sleep disease" 1989"" In the early 1980s in China, a twenty-year-old young woman named Milati leaves her career as a dancer in an army performance troupe and undergoes the most crucial transition in her life: from a passive performer of art, she becomes a young writer who thinks and creates independently. The early eighties bring a major reshuffle of ideas: love, sex, freedom, democracy It seems that peoples perceptions and patterns of behavior have changed overnight in a subversive way; that which was once impossible becomes possible, and the possibilities seem endless: extramarital love, one-night stands, disco, black-light parties, underground publishing, painting with nude models, and on and on.The story revolves around Milatis personal experiences and bears witness to the awakening and disillusionment of two generations of Chinese artists, writers and intellectuals. The 1980s were a time when ordinary Chinese people left the Maoist era behind and experienced a great longing for universal values such as independence and freedom. For the first time, Milati, her friends, and her fathers generation stand on the same horizon of literature and art as the rest of the world, seeing the infinite possibilities of free thought and expression, of free creation. They are excited and exhilarated, believing that those infinite possibilities would continue to unfold before them as a matter of course.But everything comes to an abrupt end in the early summer of 1989. Milati and her father, Mi Xiao, go abroad, one after the other. Later, Mi Xiaos best friend, the dramatist Wu Ke, joins them abroad. This small bohemian group begins to drift freely; free to suffer poverty, but also free to create. They realize t...