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New York, New York, U.S.A. : Vintage Books, 2002. Very Good/Unknown. Octavo, softcover, VG to near fine in yellow pictorial wraps. A former Chinese journalist who escaped Communist China after the Tiananmen Square massacre describes his family's new life in the United States, an experience that was transformed by a horrifying automobile accident that left his wife, Fu Li, terribly injured and in a coma, from which she emerged unable to speak or control her body. 329 pp.

Perennial, 2001., 2001. Paperback. Fine. Octavo, softcover, fine in brown pictorial wraps . Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. "remarkable not only for its magical tales, folkloric roots, and eroticism but also for its patchwork of narrative styles. 510 pp.

Pantheon (1988), 1988. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo, softcover, near fine in gray pictorial wraps. Two young Chinese journalists conduct sixty interviews in the Studs Terkel mode, with Chinese of all ages, backgrounds and standards of living, from those who have lived through 20th century China from the Manchus to the new free-markets, to today's youth. 368 pp.

Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. (2004), 2004. Paperback. Near Fine. Octavo, softcover, near fine in gray pictorial wraps. Chinese on left, even numbered pages, English on right odd-numbered pages. 443 pp. This is the first collection of the author's short stories, written between 1918 and 1922. It contains 14 stories. The author studies at the Kiangnan Naval Academy in 1898.