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BACKLIST My Life BACKLIST www.penguin.com.cn My Life By Li Na How China’s first global tennis sensation, Li Na, rose to prominence and became a sporting icon around the world – against the odds. The Pitch - Li Na is the 2014 Australian Open and the 2011 French Open, the only Asian player to have ever won either title - My Life, a bestselling autobiography (in Chinese) in her native country, is an honest and inspirational account of her unprecedented rise to the top of her sport, told with her trademark wit and humour - Li Na tells both sides of the story: as a product of China’s state sports program and as the first Chinese tennis player to attempt a professional career independent of the state - Includes a photo insert furnished with personal photos provided by Li Na herself The Book In 2008, Li Na left China’s national sports system under an experimental Pub Date: December 2014 programme that enabled tennis players to ‘fly solo’. In three short years, she Imprint: Penguin Viking Subject: Non-fiction Autobiography won career-defining victory at the French Open. My Life follows Li Na from Format: C (230x152mm) an austere childhood spent at a tennis academy to her emergence as the Binding: Paperback Price: AU $20.00 best tennis player Asia has ever produced. It is a both story marked by great Extent: 300pp personal tragedy in the form of the death of her beloved father, by intense US Rights: Penguin Australia (China) Translation Rights: Penguin Australia (China) self-doubt and multiple knee injuries and a story of the importance of hard excl. Simplified and Traditional Chinese work, of persistence and never giving up on your dreams. My Life also gives Serial Rights: Penguin Australia Film and TV Rights: insight into the development of tennis in China. More than any other player, Territory: Asia pacific Li Na’s career parallels Chinese tennis’s growth from a little known and Publicist: Mengfei Chen rarely played novelty to one of the most popular sports in the country. Bar Code: 9780143800057 Web address: www.penguin.com.cn The Author A much loved global icon, Li Na is the groundbreaking winner of the 2011 French Open and the 2014 Australian Open. Ranked as high as third in the global WTA singles rankings during her active career, she has been included in Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world and her image graced the cover of a 2013 special issue edition of the magazine. For more information on subsidiary rights, please contact Kate McCormack [email protected] or for more information on Penguin China’s publishing, please contact [email protected] Way of Dog: A Canine Guide to Ancient Chinese Wisdom By Cherry Denman Let man’s best friend lead you down the path to doggy enlightenment. The Pitch - A perfect book for lovers of dogs and Eastern philosophy - Filled with whimsical illustrations and sage words - Pocket-sized, a perfect gift The Book Suddenly, dogs are everywhere. Dressed in designer couture, carried around in bicycle baskets and monogrammed handbags, they rule the stylish roost that is the new China. In the space of twenty-five years they have maneuvered themselves from hot pot to Hermès. How did they achieve this? By doing what dogs do best. Absolutely nothing. Aided by juicy dog snacks of wisdom from Confucius to Sun Tzu, Cherry Pub Date: 8th December 2014 Denman captures through beautiful pen-and-ink illustrations their laid-back Series: Viking Penguin strategy for success so that you too may survive this man-eat-man world. Subject: Humour and Philosophy Format: Special (165x135mm) Binding: Hardback Price: AUD $18.00 The Author Currently residing in Beijing, Cherry Denman is never happier Extent: 140pp than when chasing squirrels or lying on doorsteps in the sun. Having studied US Rights: Penguin Australia (China) Serial Rights: Penguin Australia at the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford and the Royal College of Art, she Film and TV Rights: Penguin Australia Territory: TBC has written and illustrated over twenty books. Publicist: Mengfei Chen Bar Code: 9780734310774 Web address: www.penguin.com.cn For more information on subsidiary rights, please contact [email protected] For more information on Penguin China’s publishing, please contact [email protected] Frog By Mo Yan The author of Red Sorghum and China’s most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize 'One of China's leading writers . his work rings with refreshing authenticity.' — Time The Pitch - In his much-anticipated new novel, Mo Yan chronicles the history of modern China through the lens of the nation’s controversial one- child policy - A bestseller in China, Frog won the 2011 Mao Dun Prize, China’s highest literary honour - Translated from the original Chinese edition by Howard Goldblatt The Book Frog opens with a playwright nicknamed Tadpole who plans to write about his aunt, Gugu. Gugu was a beautiful and dedicated young worker in a rural health clinic. A respected midwife, she saves the lives of hundreds village women and Pub Date: October 2014 their babies. Series: Penguin Viking Subject: Fiction Literary, Chinese, After a disastrous love affair with a defector casts Gugu’s loyalty to the state into Translation Format: C (235x152mm) doubt, she throws herself zealously into enforcing China’s draconian new family Binding: Hardback planning policy. Once beloved, Gugu becomes the living incarnation of a reviled Price: AU $20.00 social, carrying out forced abortions and sterilizations. Extent: 392pp Spanning from the Revolutionary era to the country’s modern day consumer US Rights: Penguin Australia (China) Translation Rights: Penguin Australia society, Mo Yan’s Frog is a taut and engrossing examination of social (China), excl. Chinese engineering’s tragic consequences for individuals, exploring the pain of families Serial Rights: Penguin Australia torn apart and the guilt of those asked to carry it out a policy violently at odds Film and TV Rights: Penguin Australia with deeply-rooted social values. Territory: TBC Publicist: Mengfei Chen The Author ISBN: 9780143800095 Web address: www.penguin.com.cn Mo Yan was born in 1956 and is a native of Shandong. The author of novels including Red Sorghum, which was made into a major film, The Garlic Ballads and The Republic of Wine, dozens of novellas and many short stories, he is the most critically acclaimed Chinese writer of his generation, both in China and the West. He is the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. For more information on subsidiary rights, please contact Kate McCormack [email protected] For more information on Penguin China's publishing, please contact Mengfei Chen [email protected] Black Holes By He Jiahong The second in a series of crime novels from one of China’s top legal experts. The Pitch - A gripping crime story filled with missing money, family secrets and love affairs gone very, very wrong -The second book in the Hong Jun series follows up to Hanging Devils, one of The Guardian’s top ten Asian crime fiction novels - A frequent commentator in both local and foreign media on Chinese law, He Jiahong brings to English-speaking audiences a timely issue in a well- crafted thriller The Book When Xia Zhe, an ambitious trader at a state-owned securities company, is indicted for corporate fraud, lawyer Hong Jun takes on the case at the request of the young man’s father. But as the trial date looms, it becomes clear that this case of avarice and ill-gotten gains is far from black and white. Pub Date: September 2014 Hong Jun discovers a web of family secrets and hidden motives leading back Series: Penguin Viking Subject: Fiction, Crime to the turbulence of the Cultural Revolution. What he doesn't count on is Format: C (230x152mm) that, in dredging up these long-dormant histories, he must face the shadows Binding: Paperback of his own past to get to the truth. Price: AU $19.99 Extent: 336pp US Rights: Penguin Australia (China) The Author Professor He Jiahong is one of China’s top experts in criminal Translation Rights: Penguin Australia evidence, evidential investigation and criminal procedure. He obtained his (China) ex. French, Spanish and Chinese (Simple & Complex) doctorate in judicial science from Northwestern University in Illinois and is Serial Rights: Penguin Australia currently professor at the school of law of the People’s University in Beijing, Film and TV Rights: Penguin Australia Territory: TBC one of China’s most prestigious academic institutions. He also presents TV Originally published in Chinese programmes on legal issues on national television in China. Publicist: Mengfei Chen Bar Code: 9780143800033 Web address: www.penguin.com.cn As well as publishing extensively on legal matters, he has written several bestselling crime novels, including a series of four books featuring the character of Hong Jun. He is also the author of Hanging Devils, the first of the series to be published in English and Back from the Dead, a Penguin China Special on a landmark case of wrongful conviction. For more information on subsidiary rights, please contact Kate McCormack [email protected] For more information on Penguin China’s publishing, please contact Mengfei Chen [email protected] Massage By Bi Feiyu 'I love Bi Feiyu's novels for their compassion, insight and wit; their sense of both history and the future.' —Justin Torres, author of We the Animals 'Bi Feiyu's storytelling gifts are considerable.' —Washington Post The Pitch - The Man Asia Award-winning author’s most powerful work to date - Winner of the Mao Dun Literary Prize, Massage is Bi Feiyu’s tribute to the blind practitioners of the traditional Chinese art of tuina, pressure points massage - A major Chinese feature film adaptation won a Silver Bear at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival.
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