Chinese Fiction

Advancement has come quickly to Ling Qi. With help from strong allies and connections, her foe has been defeated. The enemies of the alliance she has helped to build have surrendered. Her talent no longer goes unnoticed in the Celestial Empire, casting new eyes on her path. Those like her are accounted for; a title of nobility is within her reach...a prize with implications that will stretch over her now long life.

Improve your Chinese skills and grow your vocabulary with these 10 entertaining Chinese short stories!

格林童话是德国儿童文学宝库中的一颗璀璨明珠，更是瑰丽多姿世界童话王国中的一朵奇葩。它以幽默轻松的语言、想象丰富的情节吸引了一代又一代的孩子们。…… 格林童話是德國兒童文學寶庫中的一顆璀璨明珠，更是瑰麗多姿世界童話王國中的一朵奇葩。它以幽默輕鬆的語言、想像豐富的情節吸引了一代又一代的孩子們。

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……

有个老人独自在海上捕鱼，接连几个月没有收获，后来他钓到一条很大的旗鱼，跟它缠斗了两天两夜，用鱼枪把它刺死；但在返回的途中遇到鲨鱼的袭击…… 有個老人獨自在海上捕魚，接連幾個月沒有收穫，後來他釣到一條很大的旗魚，跟它纏鬥了兩天兩夜，用魚槍把它刺死；但在返回的途中遇到鯊魚的襲擊……

《西游记》是中国古代第一部浪漫主义章回体长篇神魔小说。该书以“唐僧取经”这一历史事件为蓝本，通过作者的艺术加工，深刻地描绘了当时的社会现实。《西遊記》是中國古代第一部浪漫主義章回體長篇神魔小說。該書以「唐僧取經」這一歷史事件為藍本，通過作者的藝術加工，深刻地描繪了當時的社會現實。

Two novellas set in Aliette de Bodard’s award-winning, critically acclaimed Xuya universe, a timeline where Asia became dominant, and where the space age has Confucian galactic empires of Vietnamese and Chinese inspiration. Contains The Citadel of Weeping Pearls and The Tea Master and the Detective.

One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, 11-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. They rename him Daniel Wilkinson in their efforts to make him over into their version of an "all-American boy".

Eighteen-year-old Shelley, born into a much-despised branch of the Zheng family in Yunnan Province and living in the shadow of his widowed father’s grief, dreams of bigger things. Buoyed by an exuberant heart and his cousin Deng’s tall tales about the United States, Shelley heads to San Francisco to claim his destiny, confident that any hurdles will be easily overcome by the awesome powers of the “Chinese groove,” a belief in the unspoken bonds between countrymen that transcend time and borders.

As a child in Beijing in the 1970s, Lai lives with her family in a lively, working-class neighborhood near the heart of the city. Thoughtful yet unassuming, she spends her days with her friends beyond the attention of her parents: Her father is a reclusive figure who lingers in the background, while her mother, an aging beauty and fervent patriot, is quick-tempered and preoccupied with neighborhood gossip. Only Lai's grandmother, a formidable and colorful maverick, seems to really see Lai and believe that she can blossom beyond their circumstances.

It's 1980s New York, and though the coke flows freely, money and glamour are the more powerful intoxicants. While fortunes are being made in SoHo galleries and on Wall Street, an underclass of transient drag queens and dandies, club kids and strippers, artists and actors, models and waitstaff wander the streets, providing the city's background color, cheap labor, and even cheaper entertainment.

《红楼梦》，中国古代四大名著之一，是一部具有高度思想性和高度艺术性的伟大作品。…… 《紅樓夢》，中國古代四大名著之一，是一部具有高度思想性和高度藝術性的偉大作品。

为何读史？君从故乡来，应知故乡事。不读史，不知天地之大，不晓人生之难。 读史何用？读史知兴替，以史悟道……為何讀史？君從故鄉來，應知故鄉事。不讀史，不知天地之大，不曉人生之難。 讀史何用？讀史知興替，以史悟道……

北京男赵小提逍遥自在地混日子，与老婆离婚后偶然邂逅了北漂姚睫，两人灵犀相通。前妻回国后，赵小提拒绝与其重归于好，姚睫却也突然消失……北京男趙小提逍遙自在地混日子，與老婆離婚後偶然邂逅了北漂姚睫，兩人靈犀相通。前妻回國後，趙小提拒絕與其重歸於好，姚睫卻也突然消失……

张爱玲与胡兰成是相知的，胡兰成说：“因为相知，所以懂得。”张爱玲说：“因为懂得，所以慈悲。”……張愛玲與胡蘭成是相知的，胡蘭成說：「因為相知，所以懂得。」張愛玲說：「因為懂得，所以慈悲。」……

王阳明，本名王守仁，自号阳明子，学者称之为“阳明先生”，后世亦多以“王阳明”称之，他是明代著名的思想家、文学家、哲学家、军事家……王陽明，本名王守仁，自號陽明子，學者稱之為「陽明先生」，後世亦多以「王陽明」稱之，他是明代著名的思想家、文學家、哲學家、軍事家……

东方阴谋之后，驭龙战神和他的龙族朋友再次凯旋。沉浸在冒险带来的狂喜之中，一封神秘的来信却搅乱了他们的生活……東方陰謀之后，馭龍戰神和他的龍族朋友再次凱旋。沉浸在冒險帶來的狂喜之中，一封神秘的來信卻攪亂了他們的生活……

青春，是在任何年代都不会过时的话题。从上世纪之初到九十年代，一代人有一代人的青春故事，一个时代有一个时代的青春主题。 ……青春，是在任何年代都不會過時的話題。從上世紀之初到九十年代，一代人有一代人的青春故事，一個時代有一個時代的青春主題。

In The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, you can dine at a restaurant at the end of the universe, cultivate to immortality in the high mountains, watch roses perform Shakespeare, or arrive at the island of the gods on the backs of giant fish to ensure that the world can bloom. Written, edited, and translated by a female and nonbinary team, these stories have never before been published in English and represent both the richly complicated past and the vivid future of Chinese science fiction and fantasy.

His victims are young, beautiful, and coldly mutilated. He calls himself the Beijing Ripper. Li Yan, head of Beijing's serious crime squad, must stop him. Just as pathologist Margaret Campbell finds an insight into the killer's cruel signature, Li receives a letter from the killer, betraying his cruel intentions. There's no way Li can misinterpret the Ripper's motives: He wants to tear Li and Campbell's lives apart, and write the darkest chapter in Beijing's history.