At about the time the Grimm Brothers were gathering their famous collection of folk stories and fairy tales in Europe, in China a similar collection of almost five hundred stories had just been compiled by the scholar Pu Sing-ling. Drawing on oral and written...
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Here is the incredibly popular Harry Potter books, by J.K. Rowling, in Chinese. In Book 2, chilling, malevolent voices whisper from the walls only to Harry, and it seems certain that his classmate Draco Malfoy is out to get him. Soon it's not just Harry who is...
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As a young girl growing up in a Chinese village, Wong didn't remember her father, who sent money from his U.S. home. Then Baba gathers enough funds to bring his family to "Gold Mountain" with him, and together with her mother and sister, Wong prepares for the...
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Wisdom In Chinese Proverbs is a collection of comic strips designed to illustrate wise and witty sayings of ancient China.The themes of the comics were selected from a book called Zengguang Xianwen (Enlarged Anthology of Ancient Aphorisms) compiled between the...
Yingmei (a.k.a. Mary) Yang, the third of four children, tries to communicate the complex feelings of a young Chinese girl, newly immigrated to the U.S., who is working hard to fit in, but whose efforts seem to be held back by the mannerisms and traditions of her...
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In a drought-stricken corner of rural China, an education can be the difference between a life of crushing poverty and the chance for a better future. But money is scarce, and the low wages paid for backbreaking work aren't always enough to pay school fees. Ma Yan's...
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The many proverbs and idioms in the Chinese language give it much of its color and richness. Drawn from a wealth of sources, from historical anecdotes and legends to moral stories, these ancient sayings offer a fascinating insight into the Chinese culture. In Chinese...
Three farmers are digging a well when suddenly their shovels hit something hard. It is a clay head of a man who stares back at them, open-eyed and amazingly real looking. The farmers have never seen something like it; neither have the archaeologists who arrive and...
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Chinese folklore tradition is as colorful and captivating as any in the world, but the stories themselves still are not as well-known to Western readers as those from The Brothers Grimm, Mother Goose, or Hans Christian Andersen. Tales of a Chinese Grandmother,...
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The result of an eleven-year-old girl's six-week journey to China, this book offers a unique perspective on a the differences and similarities of Chinese and American ways of life. Born in China and raised in Texas, Qian Gao initially experienced culture shock as she...
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The only comprehensive guide to the I Ching especially for teens. It Includes down-to-earth descriptions of the original hexagrams and practical examples of how they can be applied to the teen experience. The I Ching has been used for centuries as a means to divine...
A companion volume to Millicent Min, Girl Genius (Scholastic, 2003). From birth, when his father named him for his alma mater, great things have been expected from Stanford Wong. When his lack of interest in academics causes him to fail sixth-grade English and lands...
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