At the Wall Street Journal's China Real Time weblog Debra Bruno reports that New Release of Lao She Books Revisits a Dark History, as Cat Country ("considered by some to be the first Chinese science-fiction novel") and Mr. Ma and Son are appearing in Penguin China's Modern Classics series.
Sounds good -- except that they don't seem to be very readily available in the US or UK. Amazon offers only Cat Country -- and that only in the Kindle version (get yours at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk) -- though oddly enough Penguin Australia offers both in print (see their publicity pages for Cat Country and Mr. Ma and Son; I hope some of those editions wash ashore here eventually too).
Sounds good -- except that they don't seem to be very readily available in the US or UK. Amazon offers only Cat Country -- and that only in the Kindle version (get yours at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk) -- though oddly enough Penguin Australia offers both in print (see their publicity pages for Cat Country and Mr. Ma and Son; I hope some of those editions wash ashore here eventually too).