Loving Hawaiian family gathers to celebrate the new year with Marisa making mandoo, or dumplings, a traditional holiday feast. Told from the seven-year-old child's breathless point of view, the event is also a tribute to diversity. The Yang family, like much of...
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This book explores the world of "Things Chinese". The useful guide offers a survey of common Chinese objects from the abacus to bank notes, from train tickets to hot water bottles, from Mahjong to Liberation Shoes, from Moon Cakes to Erguotuo, the Chinese strong...
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This fun pop-culture book examines what is considered "cool" in modern day China. Categories explored range from money, extreme sports, movies, soap operas and art to text messaging and blogging. Fascinating look at Chinese society.
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Chinese are a nation good at using colors. The richness of colors serves as a deposit of the sentiments and wisdom of the Chinese people and meanwhile it carries the unique cultural memories of the Chinese. It has the function of a key to a special door of the...
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This book is a collection of 99 columns Raymond Zhou wrote for China Daily in the past few years. It is one man's outlook on mostly mundane changes - progress and frustration that make up the tableau of a country's breakneck growth. Zhou shies away from the...
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The traditional belle painting has a history of over 2,400 years. Belle painting met its heyday in the flourishing Tang Dynasty (618-907), and continued to prosper during the next dynasties. With the introduction of the technique of Western painting, the...
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China has been noted for its calligraphy that evolved from handwriting but has developed into an independent art genre that can be placed on a par with painting, music, dance, sculpture and literature. Beyond all doubt, the technique of calligraphy is very important,...
The flower-and-bird painting embraces many different schools and a large number of accomplished painters came to the fore. It depicts a great variety of subjects, including flowers, plants, birds, beasts, vegetables, fruits, mountain rocks, and fish, to express the...
Child imagery has played an important role in China's traditional art of painting. The earliest depictions of children were found over 2,000 years ago. However, it is after more than a millennium that genre paintings featuring children had their heyday 1,000 years...
Included in this book are 103 poems composed by contemporary foreign poets as well as their Chinese translations done by famous translators. A Chinese artist has spent nearly 20 years in wielding his brush to reproduce foreign poetry in traditional Chinese painting.
In ancient China, Emperors used seals to proclaim their decrees to their people, officials used seals to exercise their power, merchants used seals to demonstrate their credibility, land-lords used seals to protect their small properties. Gradually, seals became...
New Year Picture (Nianhua) derives its name from the age-old custom of Chinese New Year decorations. A fascinating and popular art form, it in fact constitutes a separate branch of traditional Chinese painting. The concept of New Year Picture refers to painted...