The list, which will be based out of the company's Hong Kong offices, "will feature translations of Chinese language works, as well as books originally written in English." The new list will "publish five to eight books a year covering both fiction and non-fiction subjects."  

 

The first three new books on the list have been announced: The Civil Servant’s Notebook, by Wang Xiaofang: "A novel of politics, corruption, and intrigue from China’s preeminent writer of the genre"; A Peking Murder: Or Murder at Fox Tower, by Paul French: "a true crime book by Shanghai historian Paul French about the vicious murder of a 16-year-old girl in Beijing"; and Living Fossils: The Pandas of China's West, by Dr. Zhang Zhihe and Dr. Sarah Bexell: "which documents in colour the panda’s fight for survival, and the secrets of their existence told by the people battling to save the species." 

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