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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
275 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Joan and Emma Lew, the daughters of a Hong Kong businessman who come of age in the years prior to World War II, find their ties to one another and their family provide a source of strength that sustains them as they pursue very different paths in life.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In "Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of their ambition, dreams, and friendship to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own. Tsukiyama's graceful prose weaves...
24) The skull mantra
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
403 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a headless corpse is discovered on a Tibetan mountainside, former police inspector Shan Tao Yun is released from prison with an ultimatum; solve the case or other prisoners will be punished, but when Shan Tao Yun discovers the political ramifications of the case, he encounters resistance from the police and government.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In 1950s Hong Kong, English newlywed Claire Pendleton finds work as a piano teacher and begins an affair with her employer's chauffer, leading her to learn about the man's previous affair with a Eurasian socialite and his devastating past.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is unearthed, "The Bonesetter's Daughter" is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, its most profound hopes. This is the story of LuLing Young, who searches for the name of her mother, the daughter of the famous Bonesetter from the Mouth of the Mountain. The story conjures the pain of broken dreams, the power of myths, and the strength of love that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2004
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in + 1 book [46p: col. ill, 23 cm].
Language
English
Description
When an eldest son fell into a well and too much time was spent trying to pronounce his name instead of being spent in getting help, the Chinese, according to legend, decided to give all their children short names.
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
335 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of...
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
415 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
For decades-in China and in San Francisco-Winnie Louie and Helen Kwong have kept each other's confidences, but those secrets are about to be revealed. Convinced that she is dying, Helen decides to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of hidden truths-not only hers, but those of Winnie and of Winnie's daughter, Pearl. So begins a series of comic misunderstandings and heartbreaking realizations about luck, loss, and trust-about the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"With the scope of Dune and the commercial action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multple-award-winning phenemonenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
In this fascinating and comprehensive collection of Chinese myths and legends, E. T. C. Werner drew upon material readily available to him as a member of the Chinese government's' Historiographical Bureau in Peking. A former barrister and British consul in Foochow, Werner presents a wealth of information illuminating the ideas and beliefs that governed the daily lives of the Chinese people long before the revolutions of the 20th century.
Offering...
Author
Series
Red princess mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Random House trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 348 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the body of an American archaeologist is found in the Yangzi River, Ministry of Public Security agent Liu Hulan and her husband are sent to investigate, and they soon begin to suspect the death was not accidental.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 20 cm. + 1 fold-out color map.
Language
English
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Description
More than two thousand years ago, with his land under constant attack from nomads, the First Emperor of China came up with a simple solution: build a wall to keep out enemies. It was a wall that kept growing and growing. But its construction came at a huge cost: it is believed that more than a million Chinese died building it, earning the wall its nickname--the longest cemetery on earth. Through the story of the wall, Patricia Brennan Demuth is able...
35) China
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon Spotlight hardcover/paperback edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
36) Tenzin's deer
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
When young Tenzin discovers a wounded musk deer high up in the hills, he takes it home to try and heal it. Through a dream, Tenzin learns how he can cure his new friend, and day by day, the deer gets better. But once the deer has recovered, Tenzin must learn the most important lesson of all: to love enough to let the deer go.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 316 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Professor and the Madman" and "Krakatoa" returns with the remarkable story of the growth of a great nation, and the eccentric and adventurous scientist who defined its essence for the world.
The extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China--long the world's most technologically advanced country. This married Englishman,...
Author
Series
Old Filth trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
233 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Betty, who spent the war in a Japanese internment camp, meets Sir Edward Feathers, a romantically awkward barrister, in Hong Kong and agrees to marry him, despite knowing neither she nor Edward are in love.
40) The Nian monster
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"The legendary Nian monster has returned at Chinese New Year. Nian is intent on devouring Shanghai, starting with young Xingling! But Xingling is clever and thinks quickly to outwit him with Chinese New Year traditions"--
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