Chinese history is filled with many interesting anecdotes of wise people reputed for their resourcefulness as statesman and military strategist, magistrate and trader, as well as in everyday life. These stories, accumulated over several thousands of years, make up a...
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The title is a question children encounter all the time. Will your dreams come true? This book is constructed with interviews covering 28 jobs, which include the best ten jobs children have voted for over the years. Direct questions from the children and first-hand...
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This controversial new novel is a big, spirited comedy of society running amok in modern China - told through the story of two brothers in a brand new capitalist world. Baldy Li is a girl-crazy, teenage ne'er-do-well; his stepbrother is bookish and compassionate....
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This book collects famous prose writing in Chinese literary history covering the pre-Qin, Wei, Jin, the Southern and the Northern, Tang and Song, Ming and Qing dynasties. Here are theoretical treaties, emotional essays, travels, biographical writings, historical...
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This bilingual book of Chinese quotes is divided into several topics: emotions, relationships, everyday wisdom, politics, cultivation, and philosophy. Each quote is presented with pinyin, Chinese characters, and English translation. This book...
This book looks into some highlights of Chinese poetics from a historical and trans-cultural perspective. It carries out an in-depth discussion of such thematic topics as Confucius' expectation of poetry in education, Mozi and Xunzi on musical functions, Liu Xie's...
This abridged version of the well known Chinese trilogy "The Torrents: Family, Spring, Autumn" is the masterpiece of Ba Jin, one of the great writers of modern Chinese literature. The trilogy recounts the decline of a large feudal family following the May fourth...
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At the age of eleven, Li Cunxin was one of the privileged few selected to serve in Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution by studying at the Beijing Dance Academy. Having known bitter poverty in his rural China home, ballet would be his family's best chance for a better...
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An abridged version of the famous novel by Qian Zhongshu, this book is designed for learners of Chinese as a second language. With the hero Fang Hongjian's experience as the subject, the novel depicts the wretched and humdrum life of intellectuals in a...
A spirited memoir by a former Chinese factory worker who grew up in Nanjing, participated in the Tiananmen Square protest, and ended up an international journalist. Lijia Zhang worked as a teenager in a factory producing missiles designed to reach North America,...
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When Hua Wu arrives in New York City, her life seems destined to resemble that of countless immigrants before her. She spends her hectic days in a restaurant in Chinatown, and her lonesome nights in a noisy, crowded tenement, yearning for those she left behind. But...
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First 20 lucky buyers will receive autographed copies. Maarten Troost has charmed legions of readers with his laugh-out-loud tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific. When the travel bug hit again, he decided to go big-time, taking on the world's...
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