After learning to understand the language of animals, Hai Li Bu the hunter sacrifices himself to save his village.
China
- Author:Casanova, MarySummary:
- Author:Buck, Pearl S.Summary:
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of China, farmer Wang Lung glories in the soil he works. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers--but they will soon meet their downfall.
- Author:Meredith, RobynSummary:
Today, India is as near as the voice answering an 800 number for one dollar an hour, and China is as close as the nearest Wal-Mart. Not since the United States rose to prominence a century ago have we seen such tectonic shifts in global...
- Author:Lin, JeannieSummary:
Former Emperor's consort Ling Suyin is renowned for her beauty. She lives quietly alone until the most ruthless warlord in the region steals her away, intent on uncovering her mystery without falling under her spell.
- Author:Spence, Jonathan D.Summary:
- Author:Xiao, MingSummary:
Emerging in China in the early 1990s, Falun Gong is viewed by its supporters as a folk movement promoting the benefits of good health and moral cultivation. To the Chinese establishment, however, it is a dissident religious cult...
- Author:Zhao, YuKongSummary:
Today, many American families are facing the economic fallout of global competition, a decline in education quality, the potential reduction of Social Security and Medicare benefits, and high oil prices. The answer to these problems can...
- Author:Bradley, JamesSummary:
From the bestselling author of Flags of Our Fathers, this spellbinding history of turbulent US-China relations from the nineteenth century to World War II and Mao's ascent explores a difficult century that defines US-Chinese relations...
- Author:Yee, PaulSummary:
Thirteen-year-old Bing-wing Chan must conquer his fear of ghosts as his father’s gambling debts force him to dig for human bones in a graveyard and then to work as a houseboy in a haunted house. Set in Vancouver’s Chinatown The Bone...
- Author:Tzu Sun TzuSummary:
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- Author:Sun, TzuSummary:
Ready to boost the kill count in your online combat game? A must-read for any strategy gamer, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War offers tips on where to position your players, how to stage an effective attack, the secret to discovering your enemy...
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The authors provide a comprehensive examination of the value of middle-class consumers in China and India. By 2020, this group is expected to generate $10 trillion in annual revenue--far higher than that generated by consumers in the...
- Author:Baxter, HollySummary:
To think of Chicago in the 1930s is to conjure up pictures of the Chicago Outfit and its earlier crime lords like Capone, to envision a gangsters’ and bootleggers’ haven in the Roaring Twenties and in the Depression that ended them....
- Author:Kacer, KathySummary:
Lily Toufar and her family arrive in Shanghai in 1938, having fled from Nazi-occupied Vienna and the persecution of Jewish families like theirs. Shanghai is a strange place for a young European girl, but it is one of the few places in...
- Author:Magnus, GeorgeSummary:
Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at home and abroad, but the country also faces serious challenges. In this critical take on China's future, economist George Magnus explores four key...
- Author:Sandford, Robert WilliamSummary:
In this latest RMB Manifesto, Canadian freshwater expert Robert Sandford takes readers to China and shares what it is like to deal with some of the most intractable freshwater problems in the world. It all started out innocently enough...
- Author:Min, AncheeSummary:
Arriving in late 19th-century China with her missionary parents, Pearl Buck is soon fascinated by her new home and strikes up a friendship with a young Chinese girl named Willow. The two become inseparable even as civil war, failed...
- Author:Meng, Yuan, Tu, LongSummary:
This true story of the Bai Family in China traces how their devotion to truth placed them on a collision course with the Communist Party. When they became practitioners of Falun Gong, it paved the way for a painful and torturous, yet...
- Author:CHING, LucySummary:
Lucy Ching was blinded as an infant and she struggled alone apart from the selfless help of her amah. With her support, Lucy attained education and independence and she went on to become a great benefactor of the blind in China.