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A classic short story exploring societal oppression and human cruelty.

How the Opium Wars started China's 'century of humiliation', from Britain's opium trade at Canton to the burning of the Summer Palace.

Ah Q, a penniless labourer in the village of Weizhuang, loses every fight he picks and wins them all in his head, right up until the 1911 Revolution sweeps him along to the execution ground.

As guns and railways arrive in China, the old spear master Sha Zilong closes his escort agency and won't teach his famous technique to anyone.

A seventeen-year-old boy, recovering from illness, struggles with his desire for independence.

Trapped indoors by rain, a young novelist spirals through anxiety and pride.

Lu Xun goes back to his village to sell the family house, and finds that Runtu, his boyhood friend, has been worn down into a stranger who calls him 'Master'.

In the bitter cold of a Beijing winter, a self-absorbed man witnesses a simple yet profound act of kindness.

A heartbreaking story about a boy's illness and the misguided beliefs of his parents.