Now you've read our 2019 lists of English translations and books published in Chinese, here's a preview of some of the translations that will be hitting your shelves in 2020!

• Wake Me Up at Nine in the Morning (早上九点叫醒我) by 阿乙 A Yi, translated by Nicky Harman (Oneworld)
• Walls of Wuchang (武昌城) by 方方 Fang Fang, translated by Olivia Milburn (ACA Publishing)
• Peach Blossom Paradise (人面桃花) by 格非 Ge Fei, translated by Canaan Morse (New York Review Books)
• A Life Lived (老生) by 贾平凹 Jia Pingwa, translated by Christopher Payne (ACA Publishing)
• Qinqiang / Shaanxi Opera (秦腔) by 贾平凹 Jia Pingwa, translated by Dylan Levi King & Nicky Harman (Amazon Crossing)
• Blossoms (繁花)by 金宇澄 Jin Yucheng, translated by John Balcom (FSG)
• The Ming Empire: The Taoist Emperor (大明王朝1566) by 刘和平 Li Heping, translated by Huang Wen (ACA Publishing)
• Distant Sunflower Fields (遥远的向日葵地) by 李娟 Li Juan, translated by Christopher Payne (ACA Publishing)
• Compassion (慈悲) by 路内 Lu Nei, translated by Nicky Harman (rights available from People’s Literature Publishing House)
• The Flock of Ba-Hui & Other Stories by Oobmab, translated by Arthur Meursault and Akira (Camphor Press)
• Shadow of the Hunter (黄雀记) by 苏童 Su Tong, translated by James Trapp (ACA Publishing)
• Siege (封锁) by 小白 Xiao Bai, translated by Iris Fan Xing (Giramondo)
• Strange Beasts of China (异兽志) by 颜歌 Yan Ge, translated by Jeremy Tiang (Tilted Axis)
• Three Brothers: Memories of My Family by 阎连科 Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas (Grove Atlantic)
• A Single Swallow (劳燕) by 张翎 Zhang Ling, translated by Shelly Bryant (Amazon Crossing)
• Fields of Joy (安魂) by 周大新 Zhou Daxin, translated by Justin Hebert & Zhou Dan (ACA Publishing)
• In the Name of the People (人民的名义) by 周梅森 Zhou Meisen, translated by Emily Hein (ACA Publishing)
• That We May Live – compilation of speculative fiction (Two Lines Press)
• The Book of Shanghai: A City in Short Fiction– edited by Dai Congrong (Comma Press)
• The Art of War by Sun Zi, translated by Michael Nylan (Norton). Review here
  
  
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