Chinese Puzzle

The Chinese Lake Murders describes how Judge Dee solves three difficult cases in A.D. 666, shortly after he has been appointed magistrate of Han-yuan."[Robert van Gulik]...

Inspector Singh is on a mission to China, against his better judgment. The son of a bigwig at the Singapore Embassy has been bludgeoned to death in a back alley in...

Meet Judge Dee, the detective lauded as the "Sherlock Holmes of ancient China"

It's never easy reviewing a classic; obviously it is good or it wouldn't be regarded as such, and if it has just been reprinted then its charm and relevance still exist...

Judge Dee must solve three complex mysteries in this case. Poisoned plums, secret messages in a scroll picture, passionate love letters and a murderer with a penchant...

'[A] giant of modern Chinese literature' – The New York Times"With language as sharp as a knife edge, Eileen Chang cut open a huge divide in Chinese culture, between the...

Тихое село — на границе ЧЕТЫРЕХ МИРОВ! Мир средневековых «меча и магии» Вакла, над которым реет черная тень могущественного колдуна… Антиутопический мир «хронистов»,...

Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives

in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find

her way in the city, and through the...