It's China, 1930s. Julian Bell, son of the Bloomsbury set's Vanessa, is newly arrived in Peking. In search of fresh experiences, he encounters the beautiful, intelligent and deeply erotic Lin Cheng. Though Lin is wife to a university professor, their passionate assignations blossom into an affair. Schooled in the ancient Taoist arts of love, Lin instructs Julian in the ways of the East. But if society won't tolerate this union between Occidental and Oriental can their love possibly survive? Based on a true story this is a tragic tale of romance, betrayal and sexual desire set against a backdrop of conflict and war.

K: The Art of Love

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Hong, Ying

Science Fiction

Penguin

First published in Taiwan in 1992 and banned in China--where it was widely distributed underground--a lyrical and sensuous novel follows the winding path of a young female poet whose life is changed by the uprising in Tiananmen Square.

Summer of Betrayal: A Novel

Avery, Martha

Ying, Hong

Lao-Hung

Literature & Fiction

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Based on a true story, K tells the story of the passionate and illicit affair between Julian Bell (son of Vanessa Bell and nephew of Virginia Woolf) the darling of the Bloomsbury set and the beautiful Chinese writer and intellectual Lin Cheng, set against the vivid backdrop of decadent 1930s Peking.

K : The Art of Love

Genre Fiction

Black Swan.

Set in 1930s China, this is a true but tragic tale of romance, sexual desire, and untimely death. Beautiful, intelligent, and schooled in the Daoist arts of love, Lin is married to a provincial university professor. Julian Bell, son of Vanessa Bell, and darling of the Bloomsbury set, has arrived in China, hungry for experience. Their mutual attraction leads to a passionate phy-sical and spiritual sojourn in Beijing. Unable to realize their love in a society divided by cultural conflict and the threat of war, they eventually part: Julian to fight for the Loyalists in Spain and Lin to contemplate suicide in her husband’s house.

Erotica

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Summer of Betrayal

Contemporary

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Daughter of the River

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Bloomsbury Publishing

From her dramatic upbringing in the slums of Chongqing to her sexual and intellectual awakening to her desperate search to unravel the mystery of her birth, a dramatic coming-of-age portrait by the renowned poet and novelist details her turbulent life against the backdrop of Communist China. 25,000 first printing.

Grove Pr

History

Asia

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

L'Eté des trahisons

SEUIL

Die Konkubine von Shanghai

Aufbau-Verlag GmbH

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