We represent publishers, agents and writers for sales of Chinese and Taiwanese rights. Our clients include, amongst others, John Murray, Headline, Nicholas Brealey, British Library via Edwards Fuglewicz Literary Agency and Macmilan in the UK, as well as The Italian Agency, Planeta, Mauri Spagnol in Europe, and University of Chicago, OR Books and Other Press in the US. We sell rights for adult fiction and nonfiction as well as children’s books.

Tina Chou

Tina is Peony's representative in Shanghai. She previously worked as an editor at Eurasian Publishing Group in Taiwan, before moving to Beijing, then Shanghai to become a literary talent scout and agent. She has brought in numerous titles into China and Taiwan, including a high figure ten-book deal sale to a Chinese Publishing house. She has been trained and is certified for practice by the Copyright Protection Center of China as a government-recognized literary agent.

Cecily Lien

Cecily is Peony's representative in Taiwan. She has previously freelanced for publishers in Taiwan and now works with Peony Literary Agency as a literary agent selling rights in China and Taiwan. She frequently negotiates five figure deals for clients and multi book contracts.

Yayu Tseng

Yayu based in the US specialises in selling rights in China and Taiwan. She represents adult nonfiction and (more selectively) illustrated and children's books.

Peony Literary Agency represents Tender Leaves Translation , a collective of translators and editors led by poet and translator Shelly Bryant, focuses on literary translation between Chinese and English, writing, editing, and training of young translators. With offices in Shanghai and Singapore, the core services offered by Tender Leaves Translation include preparation of sample and synopsis packages of book-length works for submission to publishers, literary and academic translation from Chinese to English and English to Chinese, writing and editing services, specialised research on regional topics, and training of literary translators. The Tender Leaves team has translated, edited, and researched work for clients all around the world, including China, Singapore, the UK, the US, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa, and Germany, and has trained numerous emerging literary translators.

Shelly Bryant divides her year between Shanghai and Singapore, working as a writer, poet, researcher, and translator. She has translated Sheng Keyi’s novels Northern Girls and Fields of White. Shelly is currently working on the translation of martial arts writer Jin Yong's Volume IV Legends of the Condor Heroes with Quercus.

• How to submit non fiction
• We would aim to place your non fiction book with a publisher by sending out a proposal. A proposal should include the following:


• What the book is about and why it needs to be published, what makes it compelling and unique
• Who you are and why you are the ideal person to write this book, here you can include special marketing and promotional opportunities
• A summary of the market and audience for this book including similar already published books
• A chapter of sample text to show your writing tone and style
• An outline of chapters