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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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No Jul 4, 2025

I don’t think I’ve ever read any Chinese fiction, contemporary or not...

Josephine Cassar
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Philip Lees
 
Román René Orozco
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Chinese fiction Jul 4, 2025

The only Chinese fiction i've read is The Three-Body Problem trilogy. It was amazing and I loved every bit of it.

P.L.F. Persi (X)
Nadja Balogh
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P.L.F. Persi (X)
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The Three-Body Problem Jul 4, 2025

An amazing read indeed.

I've read fiction by Mo Yan, Han Ji, Ah Cheng, and Eileen Chang. Recently, I reread The Dream of the Red Chamber, although it's a 18th century novel, one of the greatest ever written, and it had me enthralled all over again.

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Dan Lucas
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Love in a Fallen City Jul 4, 2025

P.L.F. Persio wrote:
I've read fiction by Mo Yan, Han Ji, Ah Cheng, and Eileen Chang.

I read Eileen Chang's novella on one of my then-regular trips to Taipei and Taiwan back in 2003, and followed it up with her Rice Sprout Song shortly after. Also around that time Red Dust, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Waiting, and quite a few others.

I notice that the same Amazon order included The Rings of Saturn, and another one not long after had Three Bedrooms in Manhattan. Obviously I was reading more back then - probably because I was sat on flights for a lot of the time.

Dan
 
Peter Simon
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Perhaps... Jul 4, 2025

Perhaps the three or four books I read more than a decade ago count as contemporary Chinese novels? They were good reads, but I haven't read any more ones recently so I said no, but perhaps yes...

[Edited at 2025-07-04 19:19 GMT]
 
Daryo
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At first, I thought no Jul 4, 2025

but then I remembered reading recently a quite good detective story set in contemporary China, complete with flashback from the Mao era. Featuring a red kimono as main prop. Now I have to find it and read it again …
 


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