Manilla Press is a home for novelists, journalists, memoirists, thinkers, dreamers, influencers. Our reach is international, our range broad, we publish with focus, passion and conviction, and we seek to find and publish underrepresented voices.
View Rights Portal
Mandalas for the Soul is a transformation, it has no gender or age, it has no race, it is for the soul, it is for spiritual beings, it is finding balance in your life as we all came here to live an earthly experience. Mandalas Books, Journals and messages from the universe were all created to offer an experience that let people connect with their most sublime, wise and spiritual part at any time, this part of us that knows everything and is always in a state of calm and freedom.
View Rights Portal
Dim sum is meant to be tasted and shared among family and friends, and brings them closer through these small portioned snacks. But, with recurring cases of adulterated food, the only way to ensure the food consumed is safe is to make it yourself. Madam Koh Sai Ngo insists on using unbleached flour, making dumpling skin herself with no added MSG, to ensure that everyone in her family dine at ease. This book presents 50 dim sum recipes from Madam Koh Sai Ngo, including sweet and savoury bao, mantou, dumplings, siu mai, rice noodle rolls, steamed cakes, steamed meat and steamed rice. The step-by-step recipes provide readers with detailed instructions to make homely and practical Chinese dim sum. Now, you can even enjoy these goodies at home!
Desert Rites XueMo Translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Desert Rites is a realistic depiction of China's rural life in the second half of the twentieth century,and epitomises a generation of farmers to struggle for survival and fate.It takes the author Xue Mo twenty years to write this novel.There are no great figures in this book.What touches people most are those scenes that depict little details in daily life.and those parts about the struggle of soul that each life goes through when confronted with sufferings from reality. The whole book was written in a Tolstoy-like style,Focusing on vividly depicting the characters’psychological life.It faithfully chronicled a reforming era and one year’s life of a farmer family in western China.For example,faced with life’s hardship,faced with love that is unlikely to come to fruition,Lingguang, the hero of the book, witnessed a family’s history of suffering,and witnessed the souls of a Generation who were in hopeless silence and helpless struggle on the land of western China. Finally, under the helpless trace,Lingguang chose to leave his hometown,heading towards the solitude in mind that no one ever know.The whole novel portrays human nature in ordinary life, and is a representative work of realism in contemporary Chinese literature that faithfully records the customs and cultures of western China. Untill now,five different publishers have published different versions of Desert Rites in China . The following people will like this book:Those who want to know what the society and people’s life were actually like in 1970s China,and those who want to break the “magical spell” of life to elevate their life to a higher level.
‘I broke a law simply by being born.’ In the late 1980s, Shen Yang was born during the fiercest years of China’s One-Child Policy. As the second daughter of the family, she was a massive liability – an excess child, a product of illegal birth. From being raised by her grandparents in a remote village as soon as she was born, to being whisked away to her aunt’s home in a distant faraway city, Shen Yang’s existence was doomed to be shrouded in the utmost secrecy and silence. Armed with a false identity and ID card, she experienced years of neglect and humiliation from her aunt’s volatile family who saw her as yet another burden to bear. On top of it all, it seemed her own biological parents had come to forget about her. In a riveting memoir, by turns witty and inspiring, Shen Yang bravely provides a vivid account of the family planning era in China, as she jots down her journey towards overcoming the limits of her upbringing and forging her own identity amidst the sorrows of her childhood. More than One Child is not only Shen Yang’s story; it is the untold story of the enormous, yet invisible community of excess-birth children. And this book is Shen Yang’s way of saying goodbye to her childhood, and goodbye to an era. The book sparked a lot of interest in the western media and has already been translated into Finnish and Arabic.
