Murong Xuecun's novel depicts three young men beset by dead-end jobs, gambling debts, drinking, drugs and whoring. Linda Jaivin’s novel focuses on China correspondent George Ernest Morrison's obsessive sexual relationship with an American nymphomaniac heiress. They share their stories of a saucier side of China.
MARK KITTO (INTERNATIONAL) MARK KITTO was a successful magazine publisher in China. He built one of the best-known English language titles in the country, until things went drastically awry in 2004. He lost his business, and lost repeated court battles to recover it. To make matters worse, the initially enthusiastic book publishers of his business story backed out just before they went to print. Now Kitto tells his story - the happier one - of picking himself up again and getting on with life in his book China Cuckoo: How I Lost a Fortune and Found a Life in China. Kitto now runs a coffee shop on Moganshan, a mountain near Shanghai, where he lives with his wife and children.
LINDA JAIVIN (LOCAL) LINDA JAIVIN is a novelist, essayist, playwright, specialist writer on China and translator. Her first novel was the comic-erotic bestseller Eat Me. The Infernal Optimist was shortlisted for the 2007 ASL Gold Medal. Her non-fiction includes the acclaimed China memoir The Monkey and the Dragon and the collection of essays Confessions of an S&M Virgin. Her latest book, the historical novel A Most Immoral Woman, is set in 1904 and is based on an incident in the life of George 'Chinese’ Morrison. The novel brings together Linda’s interests in China, history, journalism and the character of the female libertine.
MURONG XUECUN is one of China’s most famous authors. After graduating from Beijing’s University of Political Science and Law he worked as a lawyer and senior sales manager for a car company. He started to write in 2001. In 2002, when his novel Leave Me Alone: A Novel of Chengdu took China by storm, Murong gave up his job and devoted himself to writing full time. He has published five novels in China. Leave Me Alone: A Novel of Chengdu is his first novel to be translated into English.
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