This posthumous collection contains virtually all new translations of Chang's six novellas, which are well known in both China and Taiwan. Set in China and featuring characters with ties to Shanghai, Chang's birthplace, the stories are further tied together by relationship issues and the question of (true) love at a time when women were expected to marry well and discussion of class, divorce, and illicit affairs was taboo. Library Journal

An alphabet book filled with funny creatures. Presented in English and Chinese.

"From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth is a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale--the basis for the blockbuster international film, now streaming on Netflix. These ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts, and its futures. Liu's fiction takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger...

With The Three-Body Problem , English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the multiple-award-winning and bestselling Three-Body Trilogy by China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. Three-Body was released to great acclaim including coverage in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. It was also named a finalist for the Nebula Award, making it the first translated novel to be nominated for a major SF award since...

The story of a boy who lived in a village in China and how he found a magical red stone that sends him on the adventure of his life.

"From "China's foremost literary satirist" (Financial Times) comes a captivating new novel set at a religious training center in Beijing, focusing on the love story of a Buddhist nun and a Daoist priest. At the Religious Training Center on the campus of Beijing's National Politics University, disciples of China's five main religions-Buddhism, Daoism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islam-gather for a year of intensive study and training. In this hallowed...

Uses stories and activities to explain different Chinese festivals and holidays, including Chinese New Year and the Mid-Autumn Festival.

ORIENTAL & INDIAN PHILOSOPHY. Having masterfully translated a wide range of ancient Chinese poets and philosophers, David Hinton is uniquely qualified to offer the definitive contemporary English version of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. Like all of his translations, Hinton's translation of the Tao Te Ching is mind-opening, presenting startling new dimensions in this widely-influential text. He shows how Lao Tzu's spirituality is structured around the generative...

Pimsleur offers listeners a thirty-lesson, sixteen hour program which consists of beginning language strategies for communication and traveling needs.

After doctor informs Meizhu about her daughter Hehe having the Lukemia disease, then Meizhu would like to have another baby from her ex-husband in order to get marrow from the new born baby to save her daughter Hehe's life, her exhusband and wife reject Meizhu's plan ...