When Chinese journalist Liu Zongren came to the United States in the 1980's, he was struck with the challenges of being a foreigner in an unwelcoming land. His experiences, although unique and idiosyncratic, are universal to any immigrant moving to a new place....
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To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the end of the Cultural Revolution and the 30th of its beginning, Feng conducted extensive interviews with 100 people who lived through that harrowing decade. In 1986, when he placed ads in Chinese newspapers calling for...
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This collection includes seven stories by Wang Anyi, the most popular Chinese woman writer of Shanghai. The stories tell much about the quality of life in China in the 1980s and the different senses of value of the writer's generation. The writer has captured not...
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The eleven stories included here mark Tie Ning's writing career. The stories vary in theme and style covering youth and age and country and city life. "Ah, Fragrant Snow", "June's Big Topic" and "The Red Shirt Without Buttons" have won national literary prizes. Wang...
Ginny is sure the new girl in her second-grade class will be her best friend. After all, Stephanie is Chinese, just like Ginny. But Ginny soon discovers some puzzling things about Stephanie: she doesn't like Chinese food, she hates her straight black hair, and even...
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Lu Xun is arguably not the greatest writer of modern China, but his passion to truly work toward the health of the nation, was to diagnose the nation as an author rather than a physician. He abandoned the study of medicine because he thought he could change society...
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The Tang and Song dynasties, spanning more than 600 years from the 8th to the 13th centuries, saw a period of great economic and cultural development in Chinese society. During this golden age of classical literature, numerous masterpieces were written, which have...
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Now you can enjoy the Selected Works of Ba Jin in English in the comfort of your own home. Ba Jin, born in 1904 is a well-known writer in modern China. He began his career in 1927, and has a collected work of 14 volumes of novels and proses. The first volume...
Chinese idioms on many occasions encapsulate more effectively a thought, a philosophy and an imagery than several descriptive paragraphs of words can do. This little booklet — 365 Situational Chinese Idioms allows one to learn one idiom a day to add depth and beauty...
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In Search of Deities is a treasure house of 16 Chinese classical myths. Representing a sampling of Chinese narrative genre known as Zhi Guai (Records of Anomalies) produced during the Six Dynasties, this delightful collection reflects man's age-old fascination with...
Chinese proverbs on many occasions encapsulate more effectively a thought, a philosophy and an imagery than several descriptive paragraphs of words can do. This little booklet — 365 Chinese Proverbs allows one to learn one proverb a day to add depth and beauty to the...
Chinese sayings on many occasions encapsulate more effectively a thought, a philosophy and an imagery than several descriptive paragraphs of words can do. This little booklet — 365 Chinese Sayings allows one to learn one saying a day to add depth and beauty to the...
