Book Reviews

Welcome to the Reading Chinese Book Review Network, a collaboration between Writing Chinese and our partners at Penguin China and Balestier Press. Reviewers who join the network receive a copy of selected titles, and you can read their reviews by clicking on the images below. (Please note that we are only able to send out e-copies of books at the present time.)

If you are interested in applying to join this network as a reviewer, click here for the application form. And to get you started with writing reviews of translated fiction, you can read some tips from leading translator Nicky Harman on our blog here.

If you are a publisher interested in partnering us in this part of the project, please contact us at writingchinese@leeds.ac.uk for more details! And if you are a school interested in setting up a school bookclub, please see our Schools page for more details, and to read reviews of books for young people.

NEW: If you ever wonder how the reception of books in translation compare with those of the original, click here for reviews translated from Chinese.

translated by Bonnie S. McDougall and Anders Hansson (Columbia Press, 2022)
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translated by Jeremy Tiang (Columbia Press, 2021)
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translated by Darryl Sterk (Honford Star, 2020)
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translated by Nicky Harman read by Sarah Lam (Beijing Ruxue Media and Sodalite Productions, 2021)
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translated by Roddy Flagg (Honford Star, 2021)
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translated by Mike Fu (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich (Columbia University Press, 2021)
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translated by Nicky Harman (Balestier Press, 2016)
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translated by Christopher Payne (Sinoist Books, 2021)
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translated by Nicky Harman (Balestier Press, 2021)
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translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Yale University Press, 2020)
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translated by Anna Holmwood (MacLehose Press, 2020)
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translated by Jeremy Tiang (Head of Zeus, 2020)
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Various authors and translators (Two Lines Press, 2020)
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translated by James Trapp (Sinoist Books, 2020)
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translated by Emily Hein (Sinoist Books, 2020)
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translated by Anna Holmwood (Oneworld Publications, 2015)
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translated by John Frederick Franz (Penguin Classics, 2020)
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Various authors and translators (Comma Press, 2020)
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translated by Olivia Milburn (Sinoist Books, ACA, 2020)
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translated by Jesse Field (Penguin, 2019)
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translated by Chloe Estep (Amazon Crossing, 2019)
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translated by Nicky Harman (ACA Publishing Ltd, 2019)
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(Henry Holt & Co, 2019)
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translated by Alice Xin Liu (Penguin Specials, 2019)
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translated by Christopher Peacock (Columbia University Press, 2019)
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translated by Alex Woodend (ACA Publishing Ltd, 2018)
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translated by Jeremy Tiang (Head of Zeus, 2018)
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translated by Poppy Toland (Penguin Specials, 2018)
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translated by Ana Padilla Fornieles (Penguin, 2019)
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translated by Christopher Payne and Olivia Milburn (ACA Publishing, 2019)
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translated by Nicky Harman (Balestier Press, 2018)
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translated by Darryl Sterk (Balestier Press, 2018)
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translated by Shelly Bryant (Penguin Viking, 2019)
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translated by Natascha Bruce (Balestier Press, 2019)
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Translated by Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz (Penguin Specials, 2018)
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Translated by Helen Wang (Balestier Press 2017)
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Translated by Austin Woerner (Small Beer Press 2018)
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translated by Poppy Toland (Balestier Press, 2015)
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translated by Bonnie S. McDougall and Anders Hansson (Penguin Specials, 2017)
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translated by Bruce Humes and Jun Liu (Aurora Publishing LLC, 2017)
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translated by Jeremy Tiang (Balestier Press, 2017)
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translated by Andrea Lingenfelter (East Slope Publishing, 2015)
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translated by Shelly Bryant (Penguin, 2015)
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translated by Wang Xinlin and Andrea Lingenfelter (Balestier Press, 2018)
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translated by Eric Abrahamsen (Viking, 2015)
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translated by Howard Goldblatt (Penguin China 2016)
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translated by Wang Xinlin and Poppy Toland (Balestier Press, 2016)
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translated by Carlos Rojas (Penguin China, 2015)
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translated by Darryl Sterk (Balestier Press, 2017)
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translated by Florence Woo (Balestier, 2017)
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translated by Poppy Toland (Penguin China, 2016)
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translated by Brandon Yen (Balestier Press, 2016)
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translated by Howard Goldblatt (Penguin, 2015)
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translated by Nicky Harman (Amazon Crossing, 2017)
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translated by Jiang Lin (ACA Publishing Ltd, 2018)
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translated by David Hull (Balestier Press, 2017)
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