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82) Saints
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
170 pages: chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"China, 1898. An unwanted fourth daughter, Four-Girl isn't even given a proper name by her family. She finds friendshipand a name, Vibianain the most unlikely of places: Christianity. But China is a dangerous place for Christians. The Boxer Rebellion is murdering Westerners and Chinese Christians alike. Torn between her nation and her Christian friends, Vibiana will have to decide where her true loyalties lie ... and whether she is willing to die...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Susan Conley, her husband, and their two young sons say good-bye to their friends, family, and house in Maine for a two-year stint in a high-rise apartment in Beijing, prepared to embrace the inevitable onslaught of new experiences that such a move entails. But Susan can’t predict just how much their lives will change.
While her husband is consumed with his job, Susan works on finishing her novel and confronting the challenges of day-to-day...
While her husband is consumed with his job, Susan works on finishing her novel and confronting the challenges of day-to-day...
Author
Series
Starry River of the Sky volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Pinmei, a storyteller's granddaughter, must find the Luminous Stone that Lights the Night to rescue her grandmother, who has been kidnapped by the Tiger Emperor"--
86) China
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 22 x 25 cm.
Language
English
87) Threat vector
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xi, 835 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As China plans to invade Taiwan, and launches a cyber attack on the U.S., President Jack Ryan, his son, and the team at the Campus have to act fast if they are going to stop the increasingly rogue nation.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Counterpoint hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ma Daode is feeling pleased with himself. He has just been appointed Director of the China Dream Bureau, tasked with overwriting people's private dreams with President Xi's great China Dream of national rejuvenation. He has an impressive office, three properties and a bevy of mistresses texting him night and day. But just as Ma Daode is putting the finishing touches to his plan for a mass golden wedding anniversary celebration, things take an uneasy...
89) Waiting
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of a society designed to regulate his every move and stifle the promptings of his innermost heart. Tracing these lives through their summer of decision and beyond, Ha Jin vividly conjures the texture of daily life in a place where the demands of human longing must contend with...
90) A touch of sin
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 125 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The film revolves around four threads set in vastly different geographical and social milieus across modern-day China, ranging from the bustling southern metropolis of Guangzhou to the more rural townships in Jia's home province of Shanxi. [3] Set in current times and based on allegedly true events from the recent past, the film also draws on the history of wuxia stories.
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In 1973, when Wenguang Huang was eight, his grandmother became obsessed with her own death. Fearing cremation, she appealed to her family to promise to bury her after she'd died. This was in Xi'an, a city in central China, at a time when a national ban on all traditional Chinese practices, including burials, was strictly enforced. But his grandmother was persistent, and two years later, Huang's father built her a coffin. Over the next fifteen years,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the murder of a woman is reported to the Shanghai police while Inspector Chen is on vacation, Sergeant Yu is forced to take charge of the investigation. The victim, Yin Lige, a novelist known for her banned book, has been found dead in her tiny, humble room off the stairwell of a converted multi-family house. It seems that only a neighbor could have committed the crime, for the building is kept locked at night. But there is no apparent motive....
Publisher
World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Myths and legends from China. Features include information about the history and culture behind the myths, pronunciations, lists of deities, word glossary, further information, and index"--
96) The painted veil
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them...
97) The magic pillow
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A poor young boy in China yearns for wealth and power, until a magician gives him a magic pillow that brings dreams of what would happen if his wishes came true.
99) On China
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to a country he has known intimately for decades, and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. Drawing on historical records as well as his conversations with Chinese leaders over the past forty years, Kissinger examines how China has approached diplomacy, strategy, and negotiation throughout its history, and reflects on the consequences...
100) Land of big numbers
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A debut story collection offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of life for contemporary Chinese people, set between China and the United States"--
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