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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

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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.

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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 has written and illustrated over twenty books. Territory: TBC Publicist: Mengfei Chen Bar Code: 9780734310774 Web address: www.penguin.com.cn

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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

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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.

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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.

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'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. Massage has also been adapted into a wildly popular Chinese language television series and a play performed at Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts - Translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin

The Book

Wang Daifu is blind and works as a practitioner of tuina, a traditional form of pressure-point massage, in the burgeoning metropolis of Shenzhen. His is a uniquely Pub Date: September 2014 coveted skill, yet it is one of the few options open to the visually impaired in China. Series: Penguin Viking When he loses his life savings on the stock market he returns to his provincial hometown, fiancée in tow, to work for an old classmate. But the transition is not Subject: Fiction, China easy as Wang struggles to deal with his own career frustration, his brother's Format: C (230x152mm) gambling troubles, and the pressures of pleasing his wife-to-be. Binding: Paperback Price: AU $20.00 His fellow workers have their own stories: Duhong is a former pianist whose striking Extent: 316pp beauty goes undetected by her blind colleagues; strong-headed Jin Yan travels US Rights: Penguin Australia (China) cross-country in pursuit of a man she has never met; and Xiao Kong hides her Translation Rights: Agent relationship with Wang Daifu from her parents. Together these fiercely independent Serial Rights: Penguin Australia (China) people are united by the challenges of their shared disability. Amid growing Film and TV Rights: Agent uncertainty, the members of this diverse community draw support from one Territory: TBC another as they navigate their world of darkness. Publicist: Mengfei Chen ISBN:9780670080977 This stunning portrayal of disability and the strength of human character is a rare Web address: www.penguin.com.cn glimpse into a small yet very real component of Chinese society, from one of China's most acclaimed contemporary authors.

The Author Bi Feiyu was born in 1964 in Jiangsu province, China. He has previously worked as an editor for literary magazine Yu Hua and as a journalist at the Nanjing Daily. He has won numerous literary prizes including the Lu Xun Literary Prize (twice) and the Man Asia Literary Prize for Three Sisters. He also co-wrote the movie script for Zhang Yimou’s film Shanghai Triad.

The Past, Present and Future of Bitcoin in China

The Pitch

- Author Zennon Kapron is the founder and managing director of Kapronasia, a respected finance and technology consulting firm - He is a frequent commentator on bitcoin and financial technology trends and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg.com and The Economist - Chomping at the Bitcoin gives an accessible and timely introduction to the past, present and future of history's most widely adopted virtual currency. It introduces readers to both China’s small time bitcoin miners and large scale speculators, while also giving concise overviews of the shifting regulations and other issues confronting bitcoin today

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In May 2013, China's main state‐run broadcaster aired a documentary about a little known virtual currency called Bitcoin. Over the next six months, the value of Bitcoin rocketed as Chinese money poured in. Unfortunately for many latecomers, the rapid rise Pub Date: August 2014 Series: Penguin China Specials in Bitcoin's price and popularity also attracted government scrutiny, causing Subject: Non-fiction, Finance, China an unforeseen and catastrophic plummet in value. In this China Special, Format: A (181x111mm) finance industry expert Zennon Kapron investigates this mysterious digital Binding: Paperback currency and the far‐reaching implications of its use in China and around the Price: AU $9.99 world. Extent: 100pp US Rights: Penguin Australia (China) Translation Rights: Penguin Australia The Author Zennon Kapron has over twenty years' experience in the (China) finance and technology sectors and has lived in China for the last ten years. Serial Rights: Penguin Australia Film and TV Rights: Penguin Australia In 2007, he helped set up Kapronasia, a finance and technology market Territory: TBC research and consulting firm, prior to which he worked at Citibank and Intel. Publicist: Mengfei Chen Bar Code: 9780734310538 He is regularly quoted in publications on Bitcoin and other financial Web address: www.penguin.com.cn technology trends. He has a BSc in Computer Science from Syracuse University and an MBA from INSEAD.

Baijiu is the world’s most consumed alcohol, but it remains largely unknown and misunderstood in the West. Discover the final frontier of great world alcohols in this comprehensive and practical guide.

The Pitch

- The only English-language guide to China’s distinctive national alcohol -Explores the cultural etiquette of baijiu drinking, with useful information for travellers, businessmen and drink enthusiasts - Profiles of over 100 types of baijiu, from the iconic Moutai to everyman’s Ergoutou to newcomer ByeJoe, with distillery backgrounds and tasting notes; original, behind-the-scenes distillery photos and a complete glossary - Like tequila and bourbon before it, baijiu is finding its way onto bar counters around the world as bars devoted to this unique and rewarding spirit pop up around the world

The Book

Drawing on interviews with baijiu experts, Sandhaus introduces the history and culture of alcohol in China – the birthplace of grain-based alcohol. Pub Date: March 2014 Distillation and production processes, the landscape of the industry today, Series: Penguin Viking Subject: Non-fiction, Food and Drink and a page-by-page guide to the major varieties, distilleries and brands all Format: Non-standard (180x110mm) feature in Baijiu: The Essential Guide to Chinese Spirits. Binding: Paperback Price: AU $18.00 The Author Extent: 194pp US Rights: Penguin Australia (China) Derek Sandhaus spent years sipping and savouring baijiu on the Mainland Translation Rights: Penguin during his years as a China-based writer and editor. In his journey to ‘spiritual’ Australia (China) Serial Rights: Penguin Australia enlightenment, he also published Tales of Old Peking and Tales of Old Hong (China) Kong and edited Decadence Mandchoue: The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Film and TV Rights: Penguin Australia (China) Trelawny Backhouse. He maintains the blog, 300 Shots at Greatness and runs Territory: TBC a baijiu consultancy. Publicist: Mengfei Chen Bar Code: 9780143800132 For more information on subsidiary rights, please contact Kate McCormack Web address: www.penguin.com.cn [email protected] For more information on Penguin China’s publishing, please contact Mengfei Chen [email protected] Fields of White By Sheng Keyi

The Pitch

- From Man Asian Literary Prize nominee Sheng Keyi comes an offbeat tale of the inconstancy of modern life - Set against the backdrop of China’s white collar arms race, Fields of White is the tale of an ordinary man pushed to the brink - Translated from the Chinese by Shelly Bryant

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Jason is a thirty-something, white-collar salesman on the verge of a mid-life crisis. The threat of redundancy and the demands of the multiple women in his life - wife, mistress and a business client with whom professional and personal boundaries have begun to blur – compound the symptoms of a mysterious affliction that appears to be taking over his body. When the seemingly separate strands of Jason's life start to converge, he discovers that the reality he knows and commands never existed in the first place . . .

The Author Pub Date: March 2014 Series: Penguin Specials Sheng Keyi was born in Hunan. She migrated to Shenzhen, and lives Subject: Fiction Format: eBook now in Beijing. A recipient of numerous prizes, she is one of China's Price: AU $3.99 most prominent literary voices as well as an established figure Extent: ca 11 000 words US Rights: Penguin Australia (China) abroad, writing an editorial for the New York Times. Further English Translation Rights: Penguin Australia (China) publications include Northern Girls, her first book available in English, World English Serial Rights: Penguin Australia (China) which was also published with Penguin Australia (China). Film and TV Rights: Penguin Australia (China) Territory: TBC Publicist: Mengfei Chen ISBN: 9780734310507 Web address: www.penguin.com.cn

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A series of short histories charting the arrival of World War I in East Asia from the world’s top writers on the region.

The Pitch

- Timed for the centenary of the world’s first truly global war - The First World War’s economic and social costs were enormous and not just confined to the trenches of Europe - The Penguin China Specials series will cover the often-overlooked and fascinating facet of WWI in China, adding colour and nuance to the history of the Great War, a truly world war - Researched and written by a top-notch team of China experts,

including Jonathan Fenby, Paul French and Frances Wood

- Available in eBook and paperback

Pub Date: March - October 2014 The Books Series: Penguin China Specials Subject: Non-fiction The Siege of Tsingtao | Jonathan Fenby (March ISBN 9780143800118) - The Format: eBook/paperback only battle of WWI fought in Asia. The second time Japan defeated a major Price: AU $3.99/ AU $9.99 European power. Extent: c. 15000 words US Rights: Penguin Australia (China) Getting Stuck in For Shanghai | Robert Bickers (April ISBN 9780143800293) Translation Rights: Penguin Australia (China) excl. Chinese (Simple & Complex) – The extreme patriotism of Shanghai’s expats as they rushed to enlist Serial Rights: Penguin Australia Film and TV Rights: Penguin Australia Picnics Prohibited | Frances Wood (May ISBN 9780143800330) – As war Territory: TBC rages in Europe, expats found themselves pitted against their neighbours Originally published in Chinese Publicist: Mengfei Chen Bar Code: See each individual title England’s Yellow Peril: Sinophobia and the Great War | Anne Witchard Web address: www.penguin.com.cn (August ISBN 9780143800378) - how the Great War affected the ways China and the UK’s Chinese population were perceived and represented in the British press, popular fiction and on the stage, and how it spawned the Limehouse genre.

From the Tsar's Railway to the Red Army | Mark O’Neill (September ISBN 9780734310477) - Mark O’Neill uncovers the story of the 200,000 Chinese laborers who assisted the Russian war effort and found themselves in the middle of a civil war and the beginning of a Bolshevik state.

The Chinese Labour Corps | Mark O’Neill (September ISBN 9780143800316) - The Chinese Labour Corps, often referred to as the coolie corps, cleared up battlefields and did other support work and manual labour. They were mainly recruited by missionaries, many of whom also led the units. Betrayal in Paris: China’s Disappointments at the Versailles Peace Conference of 1919 and the Long Revolution that Followed | Paul French (October ISBN 9780143800354) – The betrayal of China at Versailles led to the rise of the student-led May Fourth Movement and impacted the course of modern China.

The Authors

Jonathan Fenby is a leading writer and commentator on Chinese political, economic and social affairs. He was formerly editor of the South China Morning Post, The Observer and Reuters World Service as well as a senior correspondent for The Economist. He is the author of six books on China including the History of Modern China. He broadcasts frequently on CNBC, BBC and Bloomberg, among other broadcast media, and lectures on contemporary China in the UK, US, Europe and East Asia.

Paul French has lived and worked in Shanghai for many years. He is a widely published analyst and commentator on China and has written a number of books dealing with China’s pre-1949 history including The Old Shanghai A-Z and Through the Looking Glass: China’s Foreign Journalists from Opium Wars to Mao. He is the award-winning author of Midnight in Peking.

Robert Bickers is the author of the highly acclaimed Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai and The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire 1832 -1914. He is Professor of History at the University of Bristol.

Anne Witchard is Lecturer in the Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, University of Westminster. She is the author of Thomas Burke’s Dark Chinoiserie: Limehouse Nights, the Queer Spell of Chinatown and Lao She in London. She co-edited with Lawrence Phillips London Gothic: Place, Space and the Gothic Imagination.

Frances Wood studied Chinese at the universities of Cambridge, London and Peking, her publications include Did Marco Polo Go To China?, The Silk Road, The First Emperor, and The Diamond Sutra. She was the curator of the British Library’s Chinese collections.

Mark O’Neill is author, journalist and teacher. Since 1978, he has been based in Asia, working in China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and India, for Reuters, the South China Morning Post and many others. He is the author of three books, including Tzu Chi: Serving with Compassion and Frederick--The Life of My Missionary Grandfather in Manchuria.

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By He Jiahong

A Landmark Ruling of Wrongful Conviction in China

The Pitch

-Nominated as the most influential case of 2005 by the All China Lawyer’s Association and Legal Daily, Back from the Dead is a stranger-than-fiction story of murder and Chinese jurisprudence - Professor He Jiahong is a frequent commentator in both local and foreign media on Chinese law and brings to English-speaking audiences a timely issue in a gripping true-crime story - Back from the Dead is based on academic and archival research that includes exclusive police transcripts and interviews with those personally involved

The Book

In April 1994, the body of an unidentified woman is found in a local village pond.

Suspicion falls on She Xianglin, the husband of a local woman reported missing Pub Date: February 2014 months earlier. With such a high profile case in the balance and no other Series: Penguin China Specials Subject: Non-fiction, Law, China suspects, the police focus on the one thing that can clinch the case: a confession. Format: eBook She Xianglin is detained, convicted and imprisoned, and the case is closed with Price: AU $3.99 swift justice. But eleven years later when a mysterious woman claiming to be the Extent: c. 15000 words wife of She Xianglin reappears, she sets into motion a series of events truly US Rights: Penguin Australia (China) Translation Rights: Penguin Australia stranger than fiction. (China) excl. Chinese (Simple & Complex) The Author Professor He Jiahong is one of China’s top experts in criminal Serial Rights: Penguin Australia Film and TV Rights: Penguin Australia evidence, evidential investigation and criminal procedure. He obtained his Territory: TBC doctorate in judicial science from Northwestern University in Illinois and is Originally published in Chinese currently professor at the school of law of Renmin University of China, one of the Publicist: Mengfei Chen country’s most prestigious academic institutions. He also presents TV Bar Code: 9780734310422 programmes on legal issues on national television in China. 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. Hanging Devils as well as Black Holes have been published in English by Penguin China.

By Lao She

Cat Country is a dark, dystopian tale of one man’s close encounter with the feline kind and a scathing indictment of a country gone awry.

'A biting satire' – Jasper Becker

'Cat Country is a dystopian story that reads like a hybrid of George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984, a thinly veiled condemnation of Chinese society that predicts a world of corruption, violence and xenophobia.' – the Wall Street Journal

The Pitch

- Hailed as one of China’s first science fiction stories, Lao She’s tale of an alien cat-planet is a genre classic, serialised in the same year as Brave New World and predating Nineteen Eighty Four

- Written directly in response to the 1932 Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Cat Country is the chronicle of a national crisis point Pub Date: August 2013 Series: Penguin Modern Classics The Book When a traveller from China crash-lands on Mars, he finds Subject: Fiction Classic, Sci-Fi himself in a country inhabited entirely by Cat People. Befriended by a local Format: B (198x129mm) Binding: Paperback cat-man, he becomes acquainted in all aspects of cat-life: he learns to speak Price: AU $13.00 Felinese, masters cat-poetry, and appreciates the narcotic effects of the Extent: 240pp US Rights: Penguin Australia (China) reverie leaf – their food staple. But curiosity turns to despair when he Translation Rights: Penguin Australia ventures further into the heart of the country and the culture, and realizes (China) Serial Rights: Penguin Australia that he is witnessing the bleak decline of a civilization. Film and TV Rights: Penguin Australia Territory: TBC The Author Lao She was born in Beijing in 1899 and later lived in London Publicist: Mengfei Chen Bar Code: 9780143208129 where he developed an appetite for English literature. Many of his works Web address: www.penguin.com.cn are considered modern Chinese classics, loved by generations of readers for his unique literary style and deft use of humour. His career saw the creation of works ranging from the local, Rickshaw Boy – about the moral degradation of a Beijing rickshaw puller, to the cross cultural Mr Ma and Son about a father and son’s adventures in 1920s London, and the much loved play, Teahouse.

A charming east-meets-west tale of Dickensian proportions set amidst the teeming backstreets of 1920s London.

‘London as you have never seen it before’ – Robert Bickers

‘At last a translation of Lao She’s neglected masterpiece that does justice to his comic genius.’ – Anne Witchard, author of England's Yellow Peril The Pitch

- A major contribution to the early twentieth-century conversation on Sino-British relations, Mr Ma and Son is a compelling, witty tale of cultural give-and-take from one of China’s best-loved authors - Taken from his own experiences, Lao She’s account of a father and son in London ring true of a unique and oft overlooked slice of City history

The Book

Mr Ma and his son Ma Wei run an antiques shop nestled in a quiet Pub Date: July 2013 Series: Penguin Modern Classics street by St Paul’s Cathedral in London, where, far from their native Subject: Fiction Classic Peking, they struggle to navigate the bustling pavements and myriad Format: B (198x129mm) social conventions of 1920s English society. Binding: Paperback Price: AU $13.00 From their well-meaning landlady Mrs Wedderburn and her carefree Extent: 328pp daughter Mary, to the old China hands the Reverend Ely and his US Rights: Penguin Australia (China) Translation Rights: Penguin Australia (China) formidable wife, the Mas encounter all sorts in this story of Serial Rights: Penguin Australia unexpected love, crossed wires and antipathy. Film and TV Rights: Penguin Australia Territory: TBC The Author Lao She was born in Beijing in 1899 and later lived in Publicist: Mengfei Chen London where he developed an appetite for English literature. Many Bar Code: 9780143208112 of his works are considered modern Chinese classics, loved by Web address: www.penguin.com.cn generations of readers for his unique literary style and deft use of humour. His career saw the creation of works ranging from the local, Rickshaw Boy – about the moral degradation of a Beijing rickshaw puller, to the science fiction classic, Cat Country, and the much loved play, Teahouse.

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A high stakes thriller set around the lives of Asia’s wealthy elite, about the long shadow cast by those who choose to toy with fortune’s limits.

'A thriller with all the intricate excitements and adventures of the best of them.' —Martin Alexander, Editor-In-Chief, Asia Literary Review

'Zooms in on the global financial crisis from an Asian perspective. Combines fast- paced action with an insightful view of what went wrong.' —Romnesh Lamba, Executive Vice President, Hong Kong Exchange The Pitch

- Nothing Gained is a pacey financial thriller, the first to shine a light on Asia’s one percent, and an all engrossing look at the decadent lives of those who risk it all

- Phillip Y. Kim is a respected industry insider; his expert hand furnishes a gripping narrative with plenty of insider titbits, balancing fiction with believability to appeal to both the expert and the layman - Set against an impending global recession reminiscent of the 2008 financial crisis whose after-effects still ripple on today, Nothing Gained is a story all too true in its time and place Pub Date: March 2013 Series: Viking Penguin The Book Subject: Fiction (Thriller)

Format: C (230x 152mm) Cheryl Donahue, wife to one of the city’s most influential investment bankers is Binding: Paperback Price: AU $20.00 left reeling when her husband is discovered drowned late one night. In the wake Extent: 298pp of Jason’s death, she is faced with unpalatable truths as his ‘business associates’ US & UK Rights: Penguin Australia (China) circle Translation Rights: Penguin Australia (China) in on their family, and expose a side of him she never knew. As his shady Serial Rights: Penguin Australia dealings come to light, not least a $120 million dollar investment in a casino Film and TV Rights: Penguin Australia project, Cheryl is forced to fend for the reputation and livelihood of her family, Territory: TBC and even their safety as these associates stop at nothing to secure their money. Publicist: Mengfei Chen ISBN: 9780670080984 Web address: www.penguin.com.cn With the help of Jason’s former colleague, Todd, Cheryl descends into a financial pit of dirty dealings in an attempt to salvage her family’s future. They travel across the globe, from the densely populated streets of Hong Kong to the country roads of rural Italy, to track down the one person who has all the answers.

The Author Phillip Y. Kim has been a banker for the past 25 years having worked for companies such as Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley. He draws on much of his wide-ranging experiences in the finance industry to fuel his writing and now divides his time between banking and writing.

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How a murder exposed the cracks in China's leadership, as the princeling sons of revolutionary heroes fight for the control of the world's next superpower

2013 Walkley Book Award Finalist

'His insight is unique and well applied to this extraordinary, intergenerational set of events that Hollywood couldn't dream up if it tried' – ABC Radio, Sydney

The Pitch - Garnaut explains how an incredible glimpse into the very personal power struggles within the CCP exposes the myth of the unified one-party state - Carefully researched and sober analysis of a scandal that has fascinated the world

The Book Pub Date: January 2013 Bo Xilai's breathtaking fall from grace is an extraordinary tale of excess, murder, Series: Penguin China Specials defection, political purges and ideological clashes going back to Mao himself, as Subject: Non-Fiction Format: Paperback the princeling sons of the revolutionary heroes ascend to control of the Party. Price: AU $9.99 China watcher John Garnaut examines how Bo's stellar rise through the ranks Extent: 142pp US Rights: Penguin Australia (China) troubled his more reformist peers, as he revived anti-'capitalist roader' sentiment, Translation Rights: Penguin Australia even while his family and associates enjoyed the more open economy's (China) Serial Rights: Penguin Australia opportunities. Amid fears his imminent elevation to the powerful Standing Film and TV Rights: Penguin Australia Committee was leading China towards another destructive Cultural Revolution, Territory: TBC Publicist: Mengfei Chen have his opponents seized their chance now to destroy Bo and what he stands for? Bar Code: 9780143569350 The trigger was his wife Gu Kailai's apparently paranoid murder of an English Web address: www.penguin.com.cn family friend, which exposed the corruption and brutality of Bo's outwardly successful administration of the massive city of Chongqing. It also led to the one of the highest-level attempted defections in Communist China's history when Bo's right-hand man, police chief Wang Lijun, tried to escape the ruins of his sponsor's reputation.

The Authors John Garnaut is China correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and also writes for Foreign Policy magazine. His work on China has been recognised with several awards, including the 2009 Walkley Award for Scoop of the Year, for reporting the detention of Australian Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu. John lived in Beijing for two years in the 1980s, while his father was posted as the Australian ambassador, and returned there with his wife and children in 2007. John is available for interview and to write pieces.

For more information on subsidiary rights, please contact Kate McCormack [email protected] and for more information on Penguin China’s publishing, please contact Mengfei Chen [email protected] The Badlands: Decadent Playground of Old Peking

By Paul French

Paul French shines a light on the seedy underbelly of old Peking and continues the stories touched upon in the bestseller Midnight in Peking.

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- The Badlands of Peking, known for its shady characters and dirty dealings receives its due in this Penguin Specials limited edition release - Reveals the untold histories of Peking’s infamous Badlands characters, from dancers trying to make an honest living to the downright bad – pimps and drug dealers - Features eye-witness accounts from original Badlands inhabitants including previously unseen photographs

- Author Paul French brings closure to the stories in the New York Times bestselling Midnight in Peking, previously featured as BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and soon to be adapted as a television miniseries Pub Date: October 2012 Series: Penguin Viking The Book Subject: Nonfiction, True Crime, history A microcosm of vice and sin in the 1930s, the Peking Badlands stood in the Format: B (198mm x 135mm) shadow of the city’s exclusive foreign enclave. Occupying just a few hutong – Binding: Hardback Peking’s narrow alleyways and side streets – the Badlands was a shady corner of Price: AU $15.00 Extent: 72 pp the city wedged between the foreign gentry to the west and the local Chinese to US Rights: Penguin Australia (China) the east that came alive at night for the dark and the depraved. Following the Translation Rights: Penguin Australia murder of a young English woman in 1937, a fleeting spotlight was cast on the (China) area offering a brief glimpse of a world few spoke of. Serial Rights: Penguin Australia Film and TV Rights: Penguin Australia Seventy-five years later, The Badlands charts the progress of this mysterious Territory: TBC community in the heyday of the Badlands, the Japanese occupation and finally the Publicist: Mengfei Chen revolution years through which so few stories survive to the present day. With Bar Code: 9780670080991 new research, Paul French explores the stories of the denizens that called the Web address: www.penguin.com.cn Badlands – this decadent and amoral playground – home.

The Author Paul French was born in London and educated there and in Glasgow. He has lived and worked in Shanghai for many years. He is a widely published analyst and commentator on China and has written a number of books, including a history of foreign correspondents in China and a biography of the legendary Shanghai adman, journalist and adventurer Carl Crow. His most recent book is the bestseller Midnight in Peking.

An authoritative, accessible guide to one of the planet’s most charming of creatures, the giant panda. This book examines our relationship with these majestic animals and reveals the truth behind commonly held misconceptions to make an irrefutably strong case for the panda’s survival and global conservation.

The Pitch - Written by China’s foremost panda experts, with behind the scenes access to China’s conservation efforts to preserve these glorious animals. - Stunning photography of pandas, both in their natural habitat and in captivity, by a number of panda field specialists. - Rarely seen images of China’s captive breeding program as well as historical images. The Book The Giant Panda is many things to many people: a living toy, an evolutionary cul-de-sac, a political pawn, a universal symbol of love, and much more. Above all, as the poster animal of the World Wildlife Fund for nature, the panda represents the ongoing battle to save the world’s threatened species, the habitats they rely on, and the controversies that rage over their survival. Pub Date: October 2012 Series: Penguin Viking Subject: Animals, Environmental, Photography In this impressive photography book, co-authors Dr. Zhang Zhihe and Dr. Format: 260x240mm Sarah M Bexell take us behind the adorable, black and white exterior to Binding: Paperback explode the myths that have plagued panda conservationists. As we Price: AU $41.99 learn more about these dignified, wild animals, their behaviour, and Extent: 202 pages US Rights: Penguin Australia (China) their struggle for survival in the modern world, Zhang and Bexell Translation Rights: Penguin Australia (China) challenge readers to look beyond what is cute and examine our own Serial Rights: Penguin Australia (China) responsibilities towards the existence of all vulnerable species. Film and TV Rights: Penguin Australia (China) Territory: China Publicist: Mengfei Chen The book carries a strong conservation message and asks us to confront Bar Code: 9780670080946 the tough questions about our role in their survival, and consider the Web address: www.penguin.com.cn natural environment which will be our legacy for future generations.

The Authors Dr Zhang Zhihe is the director of the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan, and a preeminent authority on pandas. A conservationist and biologist, Dr Zhang has worked in the conservation sphere for over twenty years, and presently sits on numerous national and provincial level conservation organisations in China. Dr Zhang is also widely recognised as a leading figure in developing collaborative research efforts on giant panda breeding projects between China, the US, and Japan.

Dr Sarah M. Bexell is the director of conservation education and communications at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding and a research scholar in residence at the Institute for Human-Animal Connection at the University of Denver, U.S.A. Dr. Bexell has worked for the conservation of many endangered species including giant pandas and red pandas, golden lion tamarins and black-footed ferrets. Her focus is on fostering the human-animal bond to engender respect for all living beings and a conservation ethic.

For rights information, please contact [email protected] or for more information on Penguin China’s publishing, please contact [email protected] The Civil Servant's Notebook By Wang Xiaofang

'Wang Xiaofang is the undisputed king of the genre' – the New Yorker 'Money. Power. Even sex, albeit offstage. Wang Xiaofang's novels capture it all – in the dog-eat-dog world of Chinese bureaucracy.' – The Guardian The Pitch

- Penned by a former insider, The Civil Servant's Notebook is a political page-turner that offers a glance into the distorted psyches of those who roam the guarded halls of Chinese officialdom - Translated from the Chinese by Eric Abrahamsen

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Dongzhou City needs a new Mayor. The secretive, government corridors are awash with rumour, insinuation and subterfuge as the mandarins of the local Communist Party go through the motions of selecting their candidate. Ruthless politicking ensues and dangerous factions begin to form around the two contenders, Liu Yihe and Peng Guoliang. Devious plots, seduction, Pub Date: September 2012 Series: Penguin VIking blackmail and bribery are all on the table in a no-holds-barred scramble for Subject: Fiction, China Format: C (230x152mm) political prestige and personal gain. At the centre of it all is a notebook, a Binding: Paperback humble witness to events but one whose pages contain information they Price: AU $18.00 Extent: 310pp shouldn't. US Rights: Penguin Australia (China) Translation Rights: Penguin Australia (China) excl Chinese complex and simplified The Author Wang Xiaofang was born in northeast China, and was private Serial Rights: Penguin Australia (China) secretary to Shenyang Deputy Mayor Ma Xiangdong from 1997-1999. Since Film and TV Rights: Penguin Australia (China) Territory: TBC retiring, he has published thirteen novels of political fiction in China. The Publicist: Mengfei Chen ISBN: 9780670080939 Civil Servant's Notebook was the first of his books to be published in English. Web address: www.penguin.com.cn

'. . . traditional thriller with Chinese characteristics'

– the Wall Street Journal

' . . . spot-on, classic-crime tone and highly charged atmosphere'

– Asia Literary Review

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- Listed as a Guardian top-ten Asian crime novel - The story of a decade-old murder case that revisits the sins of China's recent past - A leading expert in the Chinese criminal justice system, He Jiahong is uniquely placed to tell stories inspired by real events - Translated from the Chinese by Duncan Hewitt Pub Date: August 2012 The Book Series: Penguin Viking Subject: Fiction (Crime) When Hong Jun returns to China from studying and working as a lawyer in Format: C (230x152mm) the US, he opens the doors to his new practice in Beijing intent on helping Binding: Paperback Price: AU $17.99 ordinary people defend their rights, but he soon finds himself embroiled in Extent: 310 pages a case which is anything but ordinary. Ten years earlier, in 1984, on a state US Rights: Penguin Australia (China) Translation Rights: Penguin Australia farm in the brutally icy, rural northeast of China, local beauty Li Hongmei (China) excl. French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese Complex and Simplified was raped and murdered. There were two suspects and whilst one Serial Rights: Penguin Australia Film and TV Rights: Penguin Australia disappeared, the other confessed making it a seemingly open and shut case. Territory: TBC Originally published in Chinese But now it looks like the wrong man may have been sent down for the Publicist: Mengfei Chen Bar Code: 9780670070428 crime. In a quest for justice, Hong Jun returns to the sins of the past and Web address: www.penguin.com.cn delves deep into the sleazy underbelly of China's corrupt legal system.

The Author He Jiahong is one of China's foremost authorities on criminal justice and a professor of law at Renmin University of China. He has published widely on the subject of criminal law and is the author of the Penguin Special, Back from the Dead: A Landmark Ruling of Wrongful Conviction in China. He has written several bestselling crime novels, including Hanging Devils, featuring the lawyer-detective Hong Jun, which, in addition to English, has also been translated into French, Spanish and Italian.

'. . . a poignant portrait of struggle and survival that speaks to women everywhere . . .'

– South China Morning Post The Pitch

- Longlisted for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize - A beautiful and bold tale of life, love and loss in modern day China from the perspective of the ones at the lower end - migrant women trying to make a living in the metropolises - Translated from the Chinese by Shelly Bryant

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Qian Xiaohong is born into a sleepy Hunan village where China's headlong rush towards development is still a distant rumour. As a buxom and naïve sixteen-year-old, Xiaohong yearns to leave behind her hometown scandals, Pub Date: May 2012 and decides to join the mass migration to the bustling boomtown of Series: Penguin Viking Subject: Fiction Shenzhen. Hardship and tragedy are in no short supply as her journey takes Format: C (235x152mm) her through a grinding succession of dead end jobs. Xiaohong finds solace Binding: Paperback in the close ties she makes with the other migrant girls – a community of Price: AU $15.00 Extent: 320pp her fellow 'northern girls' – who quickly learn to rely on each other for US Rights: Penguin Australia (China) humour, and the enjoyment of life's simple pleasures. Northern Girls Translation Rights: Penguin Australia (China) explores the inner lives of a generation of young, rural Chinese women Serial Rights: Penguin Australia who embark on life-changing journeys in search of something better. (China) Film / TV Rights: Penguin Australia (China)

The Author Sheng Keyi was born in Hunan. She migrated to Shenzhen, Territory: TBC and lives now in Beijing. A recipient of numerous prizes, she is one of Publicist: Mengfei Chen Bar Code: 9780670080953 China's most prominent literary voices as well as an established figure Web Address: www.penguin.com.cn abroad, writing an editorial for the New York Times. This is her first book published in English. Further English publications include the short story Fields of White, also published by Penguin Australia.

For rights inquiries, please contact [email protected] For more information on Penguin China’s publishing, please contact [email protected] The Maker of Heavenly Trousers By Daniele Varè

A charming and witty love story that follows the trials and tribulations of a foreigner living in a forgotten corner of old Peking – a true classic. With an introduction by Frances Wood.

'A delightful story, in which the author's fancy imparts new and whimsical aspects to familiar things and scenes' — TheTimes Literary Supplement The Pitch

- Reprinted many times following its initial publication in 1935 - Still hugely popular; a firm favourite amongst Sinophiles and China experts - Varè’s life in China coincided with numerous turbulent events in history, yet he retains humour and joie de vivre to create a unique narrative and style - A thoughtful depiction of Peking life in the early twentieth century featuring smart social commentary and real insight atypical of depictions of the region at that time

The Book Pub Date: February 2012 A foreign bachelor living in Peking's Chinese quarter finds himself Series: Penguin Modern Classics guardian to the young daughter of an Italian railway worker. Through Subject: Historical Fiction, China his stewardship, he catches a glimpse of an entirely different side of Format: B (198x129mm) life. As Kuniang grows up, his feelings for her change, and he must Binding: Paperback Price: AU $13.00 compete with a motley cast of characters for her attentions. These Extent: 220pp include a shadowy former mistress of Rasputin, a flamboyant US Rights: Penguin Australia (China) American fashion designer, and an English millionaire. But when Translation Rights: Penguin Australia (China) Kuniang unwittingly falls under a form of Eastern hypnosis, a Serial Rights: Penguin Australia terrifying vision threatens their prospects. Film and TV Rights: Penguin Australia Territory: TBC Set against the mysterious and turbulent backdrop of Peking with its Publicist: Mengfei Chen disparate inhabitants in the early twentieth century, The Maker of ISBN: 9780143208105 Heavenly Trousers is a charming, and at times tragic, story of love and Web address: www.penguin.com.cn family.

The Author Daniele Varè was born in 1880, the son of an Italian nationalist exiled with Mazzini by the Austrian regime. Although he spent several years in England Scotland, Daniele Varè returned to Italy with his mother at the age of eleven and eventually entered the diplomatic service. He served in Vienna, Geneva, Copenhagen and Luxembourg. However, his chief posting was in Peking where he first arrived in 1912. During his time there he saw the overthrow of the Qing dynasty, civil war and the effects of both the Russian Revolution and the First World War as exiles fled into China from abroad. Many of these experiences became the subject matter of his novels and tales.

The Maker of Heavenly Trousers was first published in 1935. It was followed soon after by its two sequels The Gate of Happy Sparrows and The Temple of Costly Experience, and by the author’s autobiography, The Laughing Diplomat, in 1938. Daniele Varè died in 1956.

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Old China By Paul French

The International Bestseller - As heard on BBC Radio 4.

'Gripping, spellbinding ... drawing the reader from the very first pages into an unwholesome, macabre world' —The Guardian 'The most talked-about read in town this year' —The New Yorker's Page Turner Blog The Pitch

- Exposes the dark secrets behind the prim Victorian values of Peking’s international society - Provides insight into the end of an era; the last days of international society in old China - Author Paul French reveals the truth behind a long-unsolved murder - Told in gripping prose that will appeal to fans of non-fiction crime books such as The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale - Includes 16 pages of original photographs

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Peking, 1937: The teenage daughter of a British consul is brutally slaughtered. Pub Date: September 2011, 2nd Edition The police investigation is botched; as war looms British and Chinese 2012 Series: Penguin Viking authorities close ranks. A grieving father vows to uncover the truth – alone. Subject: History and True Crime Format: B (198x129mm) Seventy-five years later, historian Paul French uncovers a stash of forgotten Binding: Paperback documents revealing the killer's identity. Price: AU $19.95 Extent: 160pp US Rights: Penguin Group Midnight in Peking is the unputdownable true story of a murder that will UK Rights: Penguin Group Translation Rights: Penguin Australia (China) make you hold your loved ones close, and also a sweepingly evocative Italian Rights sold, Norwegian Rights sold account of the end of an era. Serial Rights: Penguin Australia (China) Film and TV Rights: Penguin Australia (China) Publicist: Mengfei Chen The Author Born in London, Paul French has lived in China for more than 10 ISBN: 9780143800248 Web address: www.penguin.com.cn years. He studied history, economics and Mandarin in London and has an M. Phil in economics from the University of Glasgow. French is a widely published analyst and commentator on China and the author of several works of Asian history including Carl Crow: A Tough Old China Hand and Through the Looking Glass: China's Foreign Journalists from the Opium Wars to Mao as well as the foreword to Penguin’s Shanghai: A History in Photographs 1842-Today.

The definitive history of China’s international metropolis, told through rare archive images and contemporary commissions

The Pitch - Shanghai features images from the official Municipal Archive, seen in public for the first time, as well as original commissions from ten contemporary photographers - The unique access granted the two authors makes Shanghai the gold standard of illustrated history books on the city, impossible to be bettered

The Book Shanghai traces the story of the most modern of China’s cities, through evocative, beautiful and sometimes painful images. In 1842, the signing of the ignominious Treaty of Nanking turned a small riverside stop-off into a bustling treaty port. Over the near-170 years that followed, Shanghai was shaped and defined by Pub Date: April 2010 outside forces, from the foreign concessions and Japanese occupiers through to Series: Penguin Viking the arrival of the Communists and the cult of Mao. Subject: History, Photography Format: Special (340x251mm) Through civil war, invasion, revolution and famine, Shanghai beat the odds to Binding: Paperback become a thriving metropolis that commands a place in the contemporary Price: AU $39.99 Extent: 500pp imagination unlike any other. Shanghai has unceasingly been a byword for style, US Rights: Penguin Australia (China) culture, business, and opportunity, and has led the way in China’s ongoing Translation Rights: Penguin Australia (China) economic boom. The story told through the pages of Shanghai is both grand in Serial Rights: Penguin Australia scale, and domestic in tone. Photographs depict families living under the cloud of Film and TV Rights: Penguin Australia Territory: TBC war, enjoying the fine life accorded by a booming international trade (as much in Publicist: Mengfei Chen pictures of the 19th century as today), and suffering the inequalities of poverty. Bar Code: 9780670080908 Time moves on and fashions change, but above all else, it is the humanity of the Web address: www.penguin.com.cn city of Shanghai shines through in this spectacular and sweeping history.

The Authors Liu Heung Shing was born in Hong Kong in 1952, and is a photojournalist with a career spanning more than twenty years. In 1992, Liu became the first ethnic Chinese person to win a Pulitzer Prize, sharing it for his coverage of the collapse of the Soviet Union. With international assignments for the Associated Press and Time magazine to his name, Liu is the author of China After Mao (Penguin, 1983) and China: Portrait of a Country (Taschen, 2008). Karen Smith is a Beijing-based British art historian, specializing in contemporary Chinese art of the post-Mao era. She is the author of Ai Weiwei (Phaidon, 2009) and is currently finishing her forthcoming book, Bang to Boom: Chinese Art in the 1990s.

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