Chinese Fiction

《一千零一夜》是阿拉伯民间故事集。宰相的女儿山鲁佐德用讲述故事的方法吸引国王，她的故事一直讲了一千零一夜，国王终于被感动，与她白首偕老。…… 《一千零一夜》是阿拉伯民間故事集。宰相的女兒山魯佐德用講述故事的方法吸引國王，她的故事一直講了一千零一夜，國王終於被感動，與她白首偕老。

Tanis Lyle was one of those passionate women who always get their own way. Her cousin Laura hated her. Most women did. But men found her irresistible and she used them mercilessly. So when Tanis was found murdered there seemed to be any number of suspects on hand. But Miss Silver had her own suspicions…

Mandarin Companion is a series of easy-to-read novels in Chinese that are fun to read and proven to accelerate language learning. Every book in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully written to use characters, words, and grammar that a learner is likely to know.

All of Jimmy's wishes come true, including arguing his friend's case before the highest court in this galaxy, but there are prices to pay and Jimmy's life hangs in the balance. Love is tested and irrevocable choices are made.

Lu Xun (1881-1936) was born in Shaoxing, in the province of Zhejiang, China. He came from a scholar-official family and by the age of six had begun studying the ancient classics. Regarded as the founder of contemporary Chinese literature, Lu Xun used the pen as a weapon to wage an heroic struggle against imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism. The rich heritage he has left behind is a treasure in the literature of the Chinese people.

Join Professor Luo and his niece Xiaojing in their daring quest down the mouth of a volcano to reach the center of the earth. Guided by a mysterious passage on an ancient parchment and accompanied by their faithful guide Lao Xu, the three explorers encounter subterranean phenomena, prehistoric animals, and vast underground seas. A Journey to the Center of the Earth is one of Jules Verne's best-known works and one of the most classic tales of adventure ever written.

In the winter of 1919 Somerset Maugham, at the age of 45, undertook an arduous journey up the Yangtze River in China. Ever the astute observer of people and places, he wrote down his experiences and collected them into 58 exquisite vignettes which were subsequently published a few years later. No one is spared his searching intelligence, especially the company managers, salesmen, missionaries, bureaucrats, military officials and adventurers he encounters.

It is 1938 in China, and the Japanese are advancing. A young mother, Meilin, is forced to flee her burning city with her four-year-old son, Renshu, and embark on an epic journey across China. For comfort, they turn to their most treasured possession - a beautifully illustrated hand scroll. Its ancient fables offer solace and wisdom as they travel through their ravaged country, seeking refuge. Years later, Renshu has settled in America as Henry Dao. His daughter is desperate to understand her heritage, but he refuses to talk about his childhood.

Already compared to Hemingway and Murakami, Shuang Xuetao is one of the most highly celebrated young Chinese writers—his English-language debut collects three dazzling novellas of Northeast China, mixing realism, mysticism, and noir. An enterprising inventor dreams of escaping his drab surroundings in a flying machine. A criminal, trapped beneath a frozen lake, transforms into a giant fish. A strange girl pledges to ignite a field of sorghum stalks.

《战争与和平》是俄国作家托尔斯泰的代表作品。整部作品构思宏伟、气势奔腾，有力地展示出了俄罗斯历史上最壮丽的一页…… 戰爭與和平》是俄國作家托爾斯泰的代表作品。整部作品構思宏偉、氣勢奔騰，有力地展示出了俄羅斯歷史上最壯麗的一頁……

AN UNCONSCIONABLE TRAGEDY. AN AVENGING CRIMINAL MOGUL THE ULTIMATE GAME OF SEEK AND DESTROY > Rayna and the Fidelitas team head to China to punish the corrupt businessmen who pocketed huge illicit fortunes by building schools with substandard materials and unskilled labor. During a mild earthquake, thousands of schoolchildren were killed, maimed or injured. During the search for the felons, an even more heinous plot is uncovered--one faceless conspirator known only as The Mandarin, plans to inflict a catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions on the United States for the death of his son, a ...

大小金川之役，一直是乾隆的心腹大患。历经十余年，损失十万军士，三位极品大臣失事诛戮，都未能平定，使乾隆忧心不已，只得命令最得力的首辅大臣傅恒亲自征讨。金川首领莎罗奔为向乾隆表白并无反叛之意，派出妻子朵云到江南，在桃花庵终于见到了乾隆…… 大小金川之役，一直是乾隆的心腹大患。歷經十餘年，損失十萬軍士，三位極品大臣失事誅戮，都未能平定，使乾隆憂心不已，只得命令最得力的首輔大臣傅恆親自征討。金川首領莎羅奔為向乾隆表白並無反叛之意，派出妻子朵雲到江南，在桃花菴終於見到了乾隆……

《大学》是一篇论述儒家修身治国平天下思想的散文，相传为曾子所作，实为秦汉时儒家作品，是一部中国古代讨论教育理论的重要著作。…… 《大學》是一篇論述儒家修身治國平天下思想的散文，相傳為曾子所作，實為秦漢時儒家作品，是一部中國古代討論教育理論的重要著作。

一朝子民，他们在自己的世界里都活得有滋有味无忧无虑，可当他们赖以支柱的大清王朝摇摇欲坠破碎飘零时，他们的命运也同样不济……一朝子民，他們在自己的世界裡都活得有滋有味無憂無慮，可當他們賴以支柱的大清王朝搖搖欲墜破碎飄零時，他們的命運也同樣不濟……

Although largely unknown in the West, the 73 stories in this volume are just as beguiling as the more familiar Grimms’ Fairy Tales or Arabian Nights. They were collected in the early 20th century by Richard Wilhelm and first translated into English by Frederick H Martens. This beautifully produced revised and edited new edition includes updated notes which not only provide background on the tales, but also offer a fascinating insight into ancient Chinese folk lore and culture.

《诗经》是中国最早的诗歌总集。收入自西周初年至春秋中叶大约五百多年的诗歌。…… 《詩經》是中國最早的詩歌總集。收入自西周初年至春秋中葉大約五百多年的詩歌。

以史悟道，学习孔子的心地修养与人格。豁达的入世智慧：和孔子学做人做事……以史悟道，學習孔子的心地修養與人格。豁達的入世智慧：和孔子學做人做事……

他们经历了二十世纪六十年代的自然灾害，过早地尝到了生活的艰辛；轰轰烈烈的“文化大革命”，使他们激昂过也失落过……他們經歷了二十世紀六十年代的自然災害，過早地嚐到了生活的艱辛；轟轟烈烈的「文化大革命」，使他們激昂過也失落過……

Willa Chen has never quite fit in. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt both hypervisible and unseen, too Asian to fit in at her mostly White school, and too White to speak to the few Asian kids around. After her parents’ early divorce, they both remarried and started new families, and Willa grew up feeling outside of their new lives, too.

The Snakehead is a panoramic tale of international intrigue and a dramatic portrait of the underground economy in which America's 12 million illegal immigrants live. Based on hundreds of interviews, Patrick Radden Keefe's sweeping narrative tells the story not only of Sister Ping, but of the gangland gunslingers who worked for her, the immigration and law enforcement officials who pursued her, and the generation of penniless immigrants who risked death and braved a 17,000 mile odyssey so that they could realize their own version of the American dream.