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Considered encyclopedic due to its detailed descriptions of upper class life in the 18th century Qing Dynasty China, this masterpiece is one of China's four great classical novels, and it vividly narrates the rise and fall of the aristocratic Jia family. An exceptionally large cast of major characters—such as Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai, and Wang Xifeng—are depicted in a way that is at once vivid and cutting. Their stories of joy, sorrow, love, and hatred are universally known throughout China.

Let’s take a look at the past 120 years of Chinese history, from the country’s start as a backward, struggling empire in the late 19th century to a totalitarian communist superpower.

Serene dreams of making couture dresses even more stunning than her mom’s, but for now she’s an intern at her mom’s fashion label. When her mom receives a sudden diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, all that changes. Serene has to take over her mother’s business overnight while trying to figure out what happened with her dad in Beijing. He left before she was born, and Serene wants to find him, even if it means going against her mom’s one request—never look back.

Explore the world of Cantonese with this five-session language course designed for beginners with no prior experience. This course provides a solid foundation in one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, spoken primarily in Hong Kong, Macau, and the Guangdong province of China. This course offers a practical and straightforward approach to learning Cantonese, focusing on essential vocabulary and phrases that can be immediately useful.

Do you struggle with stress eating, binge eating, emotional eating and all types of overeating? Do you repeatedly go on diets, manage to lose weight, only to gain it all back? Yes? I know what it is to be overweight, tired, and sick all the time with what seems to be no end in sight. Life is too short and beautiful to be fat, sick and tired.

Is your child learning Chinese Mandarin and you wish to help him/her improve his/her understanding of the language so they can slowly build their confidence when speaking Chinese Mandarin? Let this audiobook do all the heavy lifting for you as far as teaching your son/daughter chinese mandarin is concerned! You will find actionable content that will instantly get your little one to start speaking Chinese Mandarin and the content follows a logical order to make it easy to follow.

A leading Christian intellectual and a global citizen, Thomas Merton was known for his mission to understand and learn from other cultures’ worldviews and philosophies. Now, as you listen to these nine captivating talks on Chinese and Greek philosophy, your own interest in these ancient schools of thought, Eastern and Western, will be ignited.

Start speaking Chinese in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Gengo - Chinese, a completely new way to learn Chinese with ease! Gengo - Chinese will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and arm you with cultural insight and other information to utterly shock and amaze your Chinese friends. This audiobook comes with downloadable lesson notes totaling over 100+ pages. Start speaking Chinese now!

The audiobook covers the first stages of the war, from 1927-1937, the interlude from 1938-1945 during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, and the final and most well-known phase of the war from 1946-1949. Learn about the causes, events, and lasting effects of the Chinese Civil War and about the warfare tactics and political strategy of the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Kuomintang during these integral years. This is the story about how a group of young, inexperienced Chinese revolutionaries changed the destiny of China.

A naughty white kitten, Sagwa, comes from a long line of royal Chinese cats. Her mischief changes the spirit of a cruel magistrate and helps shape the future for her ancestors. This beautiful story illustrates why Siamese cats are really Chinese cats and why their faces, ears, paws, and tails turn darker as they grow up.

The Chinese created an amazing society that grew from along the banks of the Yellow River to oceans and lands beyond. But first, these people had to fight off jealous tribes from all sides and move their entire towns due to terrible floods. Yet they worked hard and built a culture that still survives - and thrives - today. Let’s take a close look at some of the most notorious leaders, their culture, and what drove them to persevere through the thousands of years it took to build the China we know today.

Uncover the many benefits of Tai Chi to discover how it will help your mind, body, and soul. Have you heard of Tai Chi, but don’t know where to begin? Do you want to find out why people who practice Tai Chi are living their best life? Do you want to transform your mindset and fitness levels using Tai Chi? If you said “yes” to any of these questions, you have come to the right place.

Grasp the language, culture, and customs in just minutes more with Learn Cantonese: Ultimate Getting Started with Cantonese, the easiest way to learn Cantonese!

Many language learning audiobooks for the Chinese language are designed for full-time training over a long time; this audiobook will help you start communicating as soon as possible! By using many words and dialogues concerning daily life, you will quickly be confident to start speaking in Chinese. The content is both practical and fun, making you eager to continue expanding your knowledge.

Start speaking Chinese in minutes, and grasp the language, culture, and customs in just minutes more with Lower Beginner Chinese, a completely new way to learn Chinese with ease! Lower Beginner Chinese will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and arm you with cultural insight and other information to utterly shock and amaze your Chinese friends.

Ying Zheng was born to rule the world, claiming descent from gods, crowned king while still a child. He was the product of a heartless, brutal regime devoted to domination, groomed from an early age to become the First Emperor of China after a century of scheming by his ancestors.

Our relationship with China remains one of the most complex and rapidly evolving and is perhaps one of the most important to our nation's future. Here, John Pomfret, the author of the best-selling Chinese Lessons, takes us deep into these two countries' shared history and illuminates in vibrant, stunning detail every major event, relationship, and ongoing development that has affected diplomacy between these two booming, influential nations.

Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for independence and dignity in the American West.

For Jane Re, half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens, is the place she’s been trying to escape from her whole life. Sardonic yet vulnerable, Jane toils, unappreciated, in her strict uncle’s grocery store and politely observes the traditional principle of nunchi (a combination of good manners, hierarchy, and obligation). Desperate for a new life, she’s thrilled to become the au pair for the Mazer-Farleys, two Brooklyn English professors and their adopted Chinese daughter.

Even at a young age, Xiao Ming (boy Sherlock Holmes) has a reputation among his peers for his keen powers of observation. His budding skills are put to the test when he is tasked with finding a thief at school. Mandarin Companion is a series of easy-to-listen-to novels in Chinese that are fun to listen to and proven to accelerate language learning.