For 10 points, name this country, the setting of Outlaws of the Marsh.
The protagonist of one novel set in this country gets investments from men like "Yanker" and "Popsicle", and once spies on women's bottoms in a bathroom. This country is the setting of Brothers and Chronicle of a Blood Merchant.  A Nobel-winner from this country wrote Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather and told of characters like "she", "you" and "I" in Soul Mountain.  For 10 points, name this country, the setting of Outlaws of the Marsh.
The protagonist of one novel set in this country gets investments from men like "Yanker" and "Popsicle", and once spies on women's bottoms in a bathroom.
People’s Republic of {China}