Chinese books debut in London

The English versions of two works of fiction by contemporary Chinese writers Jia Pingwa and Jiang Zilong debuted in London last week. The two books —

Broken Wings and Empires of

Dust — were published by ACA Publishing, a British publishing house producing China-focused publications. Wang Ying, ACA director, told Xinhua News Agency that both books offer Englishlanguage

readers an insight into how the seismic socioeconomic changes over the last few decades have impacted the lives of ordinary people in the Chinese countryside.