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The Backstreets
Longing and Other Stories
A Novel from Xinjiang Perhat Tursun
Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
Translated by Darren Byler and Anonymous
Translated by Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy
The Backstreets is an astonishing novel by a preeminent contemporary Uyghur author who was disappeared by the Chinese state. Perhat Tursun follows an unnamed Uyghur man who comes to the capital of Xinjiang. Seeking to escape the pain and poverty of the countryside, he finds only cold stares and rejection. $20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-20291-6 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-20290-9 September 2022 208 pages
Jun’ichirō Tanizaki is one of the most eminent Japanese writers of the twentieth century, renowned for his investigations of family dynamics, eroticism, and cultural identity. Most acclaimed for his postwar novels such as The Makioka Sisters and The Key, Tanizaki made his literary debut in 1910. This book presents three powerful stories of family life from the first decade of Tanizaki’s career that foreshadow the themes the great writer would go on to explore. $20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-20215-2 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-120214-5
2022 160 pages
The Membranes
Faraway
Chi Ta-wei
Lo Yi-Chin
A Novel
Translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich
A Novel
Translated by Jeremy Tiang
$17.00 / £13.99 paper 978-0-231-19571-3
In the Taiwanese writer Lo Yi-Chin’s Faraway, a fictionalized version of the author finds himself stranded in mainland China attempting to bring his comatose father home. Lo offers a deft portrayal of the rift between China and Taiwan through an intimate view of a father-son relationship that bridges this divide.
$65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19570-6
$25.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19395-5
2021 168 pages
$100.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-19394-8
MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE FROM TAIWAN
2021 328 pages
First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes—heirloom animals, radiation-proof combat drones, sinister surveillance technologies—into a sensitive portrait of one young woman’s quest for self-understanding.
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