book recs?

[esmenet]

Okay, this is me giving in: please recommend me all the Chinese novels you can. Japanese, too, but preferably not light novels as the bookstores here almost never have the first one. There also seem to be quite a lot of German and French novels in Shanghai's largest bookstore (translated, ofc) so I suppose if you have any great favorites I can go have a look.

The usual caveats: lots of ladies if possible, bonus points for music, and also I just bought all nine books of Legend of the Sun Knight so that is already covered. My chinese is pretty bad so easy stuff would be great, but I suspect I will not get this chance to buy large amounts of books in Chinese super cheaply again, so anything is good.

Comments

[yifu]

江湖三女俠 by Liang Yusheng, though it may be too difficult and way too long? English translation of Legend of the White-Haired Demoness. Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke, about a village infected by HIV, but there are few precious ladies.

[delfinnium]

ANything by 金庸, actually, has a fair lot of ladies and accomplished ones at that, though with the caveat that the main characters tend to be male protags. His writing is considered simple (ahahaha right).

[alias_sqbr]

A friend of mine, Travelling Penguin, reviewed a bunch of books she bought while she was in China.