Chinese history – Cannonball Read 17

The ones who left

Homeseeking by Karissa Chen

October 19, 2025 by Jen K Leave a Comment

Bingo Square – Diaspora (it says so right in the novel’s description – follows two main characters that left China during the war between the Nationalists and Communists and represents two different paths). Also, this makes my first Bingo (4th column is complete). This novel follows the lives of Suchi and Haiwen, Sue and Howard, or Susu and Doudou as they are called at various points in their lives. Childhood sweethearts in 1940s Shanghai, the two are separated when Haiwen joins the Nationalist army in […]

Let’s Not Ship Toxic Men

Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao

July 7, 2025 by Debcapsfan Leave a Comment

Heavenly Tyrant, the sequel to Iron Widow, picks up immediately after the first book finishes, and the long ago Emperor Qin Zheng is awake now and won’t be dying of the plague he was certainly dying from. He is immediately accepted as the ruler of Huaxia, and has absolute power. Zetian marries him, and they implement what seems to have parallels to the rise of Communist China and Mao Zedong. He strips wealthy folks of their lands to redistribute and he imprisons and executes many […]

Sometimes you just need to read a gay fish isekai comedy novel

The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish (Volume 1) by Xue Shan Fei Hu

May 8, 2024 by GentleRain 9 Comments

This was such a fun treat! I saw this on TikTok and then looked at it a couple of times at the bookstore until I couldn’t resist anymore and gave in. I’m glad I did because I really did enjoy this and am looking forward to the next three volumes. I like a complete series and this one is done and just needs to be translated and published over here. This was the first danmei novel I’ve read, but I knew about some of the […]

The Paper Menagerie & Other Stories by Ken Liu

All the Flavors by Ken Liu

The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary by Ken Liu

December 16, 2020 by Ale Leave a Comment

Always on the lookout for speculative short fiction, I came across Ken Liu on an internet list somewhere. The little bio said he’d won the Hugo and the Nebula for his short stories and translations, and as I’m ashamed to say I’ve read very little by Chinese-American authors, I immediately ran to the library. They had his short story collection, The Paper Menagerie & Other Stories, and even though I knew he was award winning, I was not prepared for just how life-changing this collection would […]

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Filed Under: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: alternate history, China, Chinese history, collection, hugo winner, Japan, ken liu, Nebula winner, novella, short story

Ale's CBR12 Review No:31 · Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: alternate history, China, Chinese history, collection, hugo winner, Japan, ken liu, Nebula winner, novella, short story ·

As good as this book was, I spent the whole time wanting to read something else.

Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt

September 14, 2019 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

CBR11 Bingo: True Story I’m a pretty big history buff, but my familiarity is pretty constrained to the US and Europe. Unsurprising, given that I’m a white American. That’s what we’re taught in school, and that’s what we’re exposed to as a culture. But I’m also a pretty big political junkie. So China is a pretty important subject that I don’t know nearly enough about. Going into this, I knew that the Opium Wars were a thing. I knew that Great Britain sought inroads into […]

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